First half from us was appalling. Handling errors everywhere,and at least 3 chances blown. Not surprising really when you consider the stupid travel arrangements. Early morning flight,airport hassle etc. How did anyone expected them to perform when they will obviously be tired. Second half was much improved, but Chris Hill is giving too many penalties away. Sam rat boy has taught his new team mates how to play for penalties and con the ref. Despite all that, an appalling decision by Hicks towards the end gave a penalty to Dragons for a ball strip near their own line. Even the commentators remarked that"it was a brave decision". That turned the result for me. A scrum near their line might have seen us steal the points.

I wondered that, I dont recall him coming back on after his initial stint.

I agree with most of the analysis on the thread, the woeful passing and dropped ball were worse than amateur.

However, THE MOST disappointing thing as far as I'm concerned, is that it couldn't have been a surprise for anyone how the game was to be played including the antics. Ultimately we should have been prepared for it and met fire with fire for the opening twenty minutes it's what they did to Saints in the semi and us in the Final it's not a new Catalan brand of RL that was unleashed for the first time....una sorpresa? no realment com s'esperava!!

BTW I don't have the 'luxury' of Sky Sports so tuned into Mix for what I thought might be an enjoyable Saturday RL fix. How wrong was I, my my that Jon Wells fella, it can't be right him sticking his unbiased oar in every time there's a bit of slow mo to review? Painful

We played crap, we blew easy chances, in France and lost by a single point. Disappointing but hardly the end of the world.

we were rubbish

PRICE OUT... BRING BACK SMITH

I've just watched the highlights back and the penalty by Patten appears to be inteference at the play of the ball (not getting out of Mcillurum's way). The penalty was incurred about 8 yards in the Cats half, but the penalty was taken about 6 yards in our half? Am I missing something, as I thought it should be taken at the point of interfernce, not 10 yards closer?


Rule from RL rule book :
Interfering with heel
The tackler who is on the opponent’s side of the player should remove himself as quickly as possible so as not to interfere with the heel. If he does interfere he should be penalised.