According to the Guardian it said Ben Harrison has a calf injury

I thought Catalan were awful, constantly lying on, putting hands on the ball at every tackle, ripping balls out yet gaining knock ons.



I'm glad the referees had taken this all on board though and are now penalising the slow scrum formation......that was a real problem in the game wasnt it....?



lets be fair they won the game off the back of our mistakes and the pass to David Ferriol was forward a week....



I fully understand Warrington were the worst of two awful sides, but I thought the referee had a complete shocker and was totally owned by Ian Henderson who must have been laughing his tallywhacker off when being sinbinned with a minute to go....

i said on another thread not to rest any one we was form team and needed to carry this on. hope we learn from this better team won on the day enough said

Summed up the game perfectly.

Resting players had nothing to do with losing today. The team out there today had the ability to win but we were out-enthused and out-thought by Catalans.



We also made some silly errors with ball in hand and the key poor decision was the kick that Myler (not blaming him) palmed back for Dureau to score. Instead of a high kick into the wind that went nowhere, it should have been drilled into the corner for them to do the hard work - a really poor decision and we got what we deserved from it. Its not as if we were chasing the game at that point.



Good games from Morley, Carvell (apart from the stupid forearm smash which he should have walked for), Evans, both Monaghan and Hodgson but overall not good enough today.

im not so sure.... im not saying it wasn't the correct decision to rest players...at the end of the day tony smith is a genius and im a kn*b head in orford.... but we were obviously weakened by the omission of certain players.



also Monaghans injury played a big part in the result.

If we had won yesterday then TSs decisions would have been praised. I was another who said "if it aint broke..." but must admit when I saw the team it didnt leave me with any great reservations. Then I saw how the team was "playing"!!! There did appear to be an air of apathy about some aspects of our game, almost a lets go through the motions attitude followed by a the motions aint working what next panic. Im sure that Monaghan departure affect the team from the point of view of direction (exactly the same as Briers injury v wigan at home last season) and how they needed to step up. In fact this reminded me very much of the MM performance. If TS wants to use it to his advantage, replay the game to players and then ask anbody who think they played there best to leave the room and go and tell the public that....Im sure not many will go.





Anyway....didnt we lose the game because Hodgson couldnt kick 100% again. Damn, that player is too inconsistent for me

We were still in command of that game with the team we had out there we just lacked composure and made basic errors at the wrong time and they came from a variety of individuals. I'm still a bit baffled as to how we lost but we did.



In terms of lessons learnt, I think it was for me more about not getting caught up in the game, I thought when the key moments came we rushed them, Solomona didn't take the extra half a second to regain his feet, Cooper & Paul Wood entered collision wanting to promote the ball on early plays, Carvell tried to put Myler through a hole on play 1, stuff like that. We needed somebody, like Briers or Clarke to just force us down the middle and end sets on their line, we squandered too man sets in the last 10 mins on early plays having created another & another & another opportunity with good field position to win the game.



It wasn't about who played and who didn't, apart from losing Monas maybe which was huge but even without him we should have won.



I think if we'd have scored back to back tries at any point, and made the gap 10-12 pts, we'd have knocked the stuffing out of them, we always left them enough hope.

I will have to pick you up on that one. Catalans came with a simplistic game plan, which didn't show any great tactical nous. If that would have been a TV game, Stevo would have combusted with the manner of the punctuated play and the shear number of penalties.

Agreed.



In Stevo terms, I think we allowed ourselves to be sucked into the arm wrestle. I'm not sure Bentham helped neither, I think he issued a warning with 11 minutes left, it was a good 40 minutes overdue. All that said, we should have overcome this, and only didn't on the back of poor execution and decision making.

our own cullen esque performance aside, how can a ref issue that many penalties and not give a warning.



Also, how can a touchie run on and alert him to a grapple tackle, which as we all know is now a sinbinning automatically, only for bentham to look around very quizically and turn to say, keep em down.



It wasn't a high shot FFS.



That really annoyed me.

I think most of us fans had the we only need to turn up to win mentality, including me.