Not been much talk of horne recently. Anyone know how he's doing?

I think if we beat Catalan we have a very good chance of making the final. Do you think we are saving ourselves for that game?

I think the club are desperate to get some "success" this season. The chances of that in the league is fairly remote whereas two games in the cup and we have a "day out". That could help massively with season ticket sales for next year and that's critical. So saving ourselves? Probably not as such but building intensity is being ratcheted up for the Catalans game and by default not so much for other games. In reality it's probably a sensible strategy but not one that will be admitted to. Even if we lose in France we still have a chance to haves crack at the play offs.

No chance in either with this arrogant bunch of idiots

Catalans are very much targeting the cup too. Massive ask.

Not feeling optimistic about either competition at the moment.

I can see this season petering out in a q final CC defeat at les cats and a 7th/8th place finish in the league

That's the logic of it.
We'll be underdogs to beat Les Cats in France and our league form will probably warrant somewhere between a 5th and 8th finish.
Did you expect better than that?

our poor start to the year will be the reason we don't make the top 4, would like us to get 5th and still think that is a realistic target

cant believe people on here are still talking about top 4.we are ,after the last two performances a long long way from a top 4 side !!!

Yet with the squad we have got it should be doable. Whether or not it does happen is down to the teams attitude.

Top 4! 3 weeks ago I would have said we were nailed on and was confident of us going on a long winning run. After Friday I think 6th/7th is going to be a challenge. Our attitude was just way off and reality is we can't produce consistently. I thought Phil Clarke was bang on with jis comment on friday that after the catalan defeat we had to send a signal of intent on to the other top 4 sides by putting cas to the sword.....failed miserably!

Fine margins - Holdsworth brings his kicking boots or Tom Lineham doesn't have cramp when James Clare picks up that loose ball, and it is probably a different story.
Dobson misses his touchline conversion and we're nowhere near so happy today. Neither of us has that consistency, at the moment, that the top teams do. We can put a run of 3 or 4 good results together, but if we're 5 or 10% off our best we're vulnerable against anybody. Maybe we lack that 'extra gear', so we need to be at maximum intensity all the time and that is tough to maintain over 27 rounds.

I would even add if Westerman doesn't slip on his pass to Holdsworth that we would have been 6 points better off early 2nd half,

I was hoping for 5th and expecting no worse than 6th. 7th or 8th would be underachievement for me

5th is still achievable, forget top 4 thats already sorted