Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 3:04 pm  

Talking of niggles/rests and Liam Byrne, I saw mention somewhere from Peet where he said the rest has done him good. He wasn't fully fit after the WCC and missed a couple of games and it's been a stop start time so far for him but I'm hoping we see the benefits of that rest tonight and in the next few weeks. He's pretty important to the side IMO and offers us something different to the other props via his aggressive defence and line speed. I talked last week about which props are nailed on in a top 17 and I'd have Thompson and Havard as that, with Dupree and Byrne just off being totally nailed on but both could make themselves un-droppable in these next few weeks, with the big games we have coming up (in truth I think Byrne is likely to be nailed on in Peets 17 anyway).

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 3:33 pm  

Tbh after the decision with Havard (and in the past with other players) I don't have full confidence that we know when to bring players back, and when not to. Will just see how it goes.

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:22 pm  

Not at the races yet!

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:25 pm  

Neither is the ref

He really doesn't like us does he?

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:39 pm  

Cherry_Warrior wrote:

Neither is the ref

He really doesn't like us does he?

Rubbish, you've been crap so far.

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:46 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Rubbish, you've been crap so far.

Did i say otherwise?

Trips, forward passes, high tackles all going un-punished plus legal tackles being deemed penalties all going against us plus a perfectly legitimate try disallowed.

We are talking about 2 top teams here not a pub side with a Sunday league chairman.

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:48 pm  

Cherry_Warrior wrote:

Did i say otherwise?

Trips, forward passes, high tackles all going un-punished plus legal tackles being deemed penalties all going against us plus a perfectly legitimate try disallowed.

We are talking about 2 top teams here not a pub side with a Sunday league chairman.

You mean that team who BATTERED Catalans last week?

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:48 pm  

Too many errors from us but I enjoyed that half. Good intense game of RL.

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:49 pm  

Better towards the end of the half but shocking early doors again.

Total lack of cohesion between the spine of Smith, French and Field.

Nsemba is a big target in defence.

Most frustrating however is every time we got a bit of momentum or position we did something very poor to surrender it with ease.

Re: Catalans (h) : Thu May 02, 2024 7:52 pm  

Cokey wrote:

You mean that team who BATTERED Catalans last week?

Catalans reserves yeah. Have we lost yet? You even beat us once. Every dog has it's day, no matter how short lived it is.