You were spot on about Catalan, good through the middle but their defence is poor once you get to the 2nd row/centre areas (although I thought Taia had a good game, felt a bit sorry for him).

Agree with those you mention, and I'd add Michaels (show Yeaman the video of Lineham's 2nd for how to draw a defender and time the pass to your winger) and a small mention to Green as well. Not that he was amazing, but after some deserved criticism this season I thought his 1st spell last night showed some of the aggression he needs to bring every week. If he can do that he'll at least give himself a fighting chance.

Or we could have even just let the tackle go into touch, where it was headed. Why we felt the need to throw the ball aimlessly back into play with 4 seconds on the clock is beyond me.

I felt sorry for him, he had a really good game and individually didn't deserve to be on the wrong end of that result.

I thought he still looked fairly lame, but then he did break quite well on one occasion. Wasn't moving comfortably, though.

Speaking of him, how quick did he look to force that dropout? Think that's the fastest I've seen him move, great stuff.

first 15-20 minutes we looked clueless, we needed a bit of luck and got it as we probably wouldn't have gone in 22-10.

first try gave us confidence to step up and throw the ball around more

still making brain farts though, we should never had let the last try in the first half half


as for bentham, probably the worst referee we have now roby has gone! 2 catalan tries gift wrapped from phil

Quite agree about Bentham and this is not sour grapes because we won. He really is awful.

I'm not sure now - there were so many to choose from.

Think this was when our player (Houghton?) was taken out off the ball and Bentham let Cats score a try instead of blowing up.

And you would of but for the fact your total merde!

Maybe. But given the apalling hash he made of just about every aspect of the game I'm not inclined to give him the BoD.

I know people don't like to give credit to Yeaman but I was pleased to see him pass the ball to his winger. He was so surprised that he fell over. Who says you can't teach an old dog the basics? Well done to the coaching staff and Kirk, keep it up.

The truth is there are some on here who are not happy simply because we won and were hoping for a defeat to fuel the Radford out. The top line is we won and for most the game we dominated. There were some improved performances from many and without doubt Pryce has answered all his critics. Sneyd his best game yet but could have been better if not for two glaring mistakes. Houghton who i think has really come in for some harsh criticism had a stormer but for me he very rarely lets us down. Yet again Yeaman gets flack and for what? He defended really well has he always does and made telling passes. If you expect to see a game were nobody makes a mistakes then I have watched for over 50yrs and still waiting for that to happen.When any side play as poor like we did in the second half against Leeds then they deserve all the flack. Last night we saw a great effort from the lads against a very physical Catalan side with no help from the ref and for me it it showed the players and staff have the determination and skill to produce wins. Dont get me wrong one swallow does not make a summer but it helps.