I watched the Catalan game again and the turning point was when Soliola went off for Flannery and Cats brought on Casty and Fakir.
We look small and weak in the middle. The key to fixing this is to stop treating Clough and/or Puletua and/or Laffranchi as props. We need at least one of these guys to be playing as a loose forward. We looked a different team last year when Clough was starting at 13. The problem is we have very little real props (Perry and LMS) and lots of lean second rowers (Wilkin, Soliola, Flannery, Flannigan, Dixon, Maggenis, Hale).
We look like the Saints team from the late Ian Millward era, when we had players like Stankavitch and Darren Smith as starting props.
Props may not fit in with the Saints style of play but they are needed in every team. With Graham we got away with having a number of ineffective props like Hargreaves and, in has last year, Fozzard. Now we don’t have Jammer we need to have a real pack not just Roby and 5 second rowers.