catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:20 am  

Everyone keeps comparing us to Castleford last year. I seem to remember Catalans struggling in their first year in superleague - did they finish bottom? But they are doing ok now. Is there somebody out there with more time on their hands that can look for their results on year 1 in superleague and did they stick with their manager?

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:42 am  

matthewgilray wrote:

Everyone keeps comparing us to Castleford last year. I seem to remember Catalans struggling in their first year in superleague - did they finish bottom? But they are doing ok now. Is there somebody out there with more time on their hands that can look for their results on year 1 in superleague and did they stick with their manager?

They Dragons won their first Superleague game at home as we did and then only won 1 out of the next 12 matches.

They finished bottom but did seem to improve after round 14, so role on to the 22nd May when we entertain the Bulls at the Willows

POS12 Catalans Dragons P28 W8 D0 L20 F601 A894 PTS16

And yes they did keep faith with coach Mick Potter and it paid off big time for them.

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:57 am  

theredshed wrote:

They Dragons won their first Superleague game at home as we did and then only won 1 out of the next 12 matches.

They finished bottom but did seem to improve after round 14, so role on to the 22nd May when we entertain the Bulls at the Willows

POS12 Catalans Dragons P28 W8 D0 L20 F601 A894 PTS16

And yes they did keep faith with coach Mick Potter and it paid off big time for them.

can you honestly see us winning 8 games the state we're in ? Oh,and I was present at one of their 8 wins v us in the sweltering heat

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:00 am  

theredshed wrote:

They Dragons won their first Superleague game at home as we did and then only won 1 out of the next 12 matches.

They finished bottom but did seem to improve after round 14, so role on to the 22nd May when we entertain the Bulls at the Willows

POS12 Catalans Dragons P28 W8 D0 L20 F601 A894 PTS16

And yes they did keep faith with coach Mick Potter and it paid off big time for them.

They had Stacey Jones and a whole other load of quality players.
We have utter $hite (bar a few) so can not compare.
Mick Potter is also a very good coach.

: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:05 am  

The problem with comparing like-for-like statistics is that there’s little sense of how the team is performing week-in week-out. Are they losing games by wide margins or are they competitive? Are they entertaining to watch or are they boring as hell?

Salford, at the moment, have a similar feel to the teams of 1999 and 2002 — they are hopeless. In both of those previous seasons there was a turnaround in form later on in the year; however, the tipping point in both was a change of coach.

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:05 am  

david caesar wrote:

can you honestly see us winning 8 games the state we're in ? Oh,and I was present at one of their 8 wins v us in the sweltering heat

I didn't say we would win 8 matches.

I have to admit though I can't see where the next win is coming from at the moment but Catalan fans were probably thinking the same when they were on that long losing run?

You also have to consider the Catalans played 28 games in 2006 and we only play 24/25 matches?

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:32 am  

[quote="theredshed"]I didn't say we would win 8 matches.

I have to admit though I can't see where the next win is coming from at the moment but Catalan fans were probably thinking the same when they were on that long losing run?

You also have to consider the Catalans played 28 games in 2006 and we only play 24/25 matches?[/quote]

we play 27 mate

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:41 am  

david caesar wrote:

we play 27 mate

well, we're scheduled to turn up for 27..........quite whether we play in many of 'em is a different story

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:55 am  

Prestwich Red wrote:

They had Stacey Jones and a whole other load of quality players... Mick Potter is also a very good coach.

Makes you wonder how they only managed 1 in 12 games?..

Re: catalans : Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:08 pm  

EX.SALF.UNI wrote:

Makes you wonder how they only managed 1 in 12 games?..

bedding in period.....like us