Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:47 pm  

Thought I'd pop on and say congratulations on another win. Always say that Wakey is my second team as I think we share similarities over the years, and it's always great to make the pundits look like idiots.

Long may it continue!

Except against Salford obviously.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:54 pm  

Keep it up Wakey. The more Yorkshire teams in the top 8 the better.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:56 pm  

PopTart wrote:

That game was won on defense as much as attack.
They had set after set for 30 mins and couldn't bust us.
Set the game up for us when we got equal possession.

Exactly. defence has improved immeasurably and all the coaching staff should be congratulated, to have the 4th best defence in the league at this point is very impressive. I also think we have the best 'squad' of threequarters we've had for quite some time, and Miller has had his best 2 games of the season in the last 2 for me.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:59 pm  

Great to have real pace in the squad and size to match the Catalans forwards, not the best game but to win by 20 points is great.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:04 pm  

Shows our depth in the square that we can lose a player like Tom and still have wingers score most of the tries

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:08 pm  

Well said DJCool.

Hope TJ OK but Mason deserves to keep his place after that.

My apologies there Daddycool when we spoke if some of my points were a bit blunt when we had a chat before the game.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:10 pm  

Well, after all the hype about Bird and Catalan close to full strength, I was expecting a difficult game and wasn't too sure if we would win.
Catalan and Bird (grubbiest player to come to BV this season) were ordinary and but for our own howling errors would have been awful,
Having said that, defensively, we really stood up, especially losing Johnstone and later on England.
Possibly our best defensive effort of the season.
BJB was sublime and seems to really enjoy playing Les Cats,and his finish in the right corner was unbelievable.
Hirst and Huby we also excellent and Fifita did big, big, minutes.
A great effort from all and an excellent 2 points, which sets us up for the up coming games.

One area which was disappointing, was the lack of bal control and discipline when the game was won and we probably should have been looking at 40+ points against them, although, 30 - 10 was way better than expected before the game.

[Wildthing]

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:22 pm  

Great win despite a poor first half.
Greg Bird - what a fat waster ... utterly disgusting tactics from him, esp near the end on James
Bachelor.

Catalans got what they deserved today. Zilch.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:25 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Well said DJCool.

Hope TJ OK but Mason deserves to keep his place after that.

My apologies there Daddycool when we spoke if some of my points were a bit blunt when we had a chat before the game.

Not for me TJ is better but I don't think a break will do him any harm - I think all three wingers have been great so it's very marginal as to who you go for.

Also think Lyne and Arundel are really finding there feet.

Where we are struggling is hooker. Wood is great but struggles to do 80 mins with no obvious replacement.

If we invest it needs to be a nine for me.

Re: Catalans - Sunday : Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:26 pm  

Wildthing wrote:

Great win despite a poor first half.
Greg Bird - what a fat waster ... utterly disgusting tactics from him, esp near the end on James
Bachelor.

Catalans got what they deserved today. Zilch.

Yes very scummy another past it Aussie ruining Catalan