Re: Catalans away - Benidorm dash : Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:57 am
Late to the party, so apologies if its been mentioned, but I have always had my reservations about doing Catalans in a day. Early start, plenty of travel, a hard game to prepare for physically and mentally, and to then catch them on a day when they are red hot, it is always going to be a difficult ask.Hard to judge a game by just listening on radio, but it sounds that they simply never got going. It's probably the grounding reality check we needed, and hopefully, in the long run, the game we look back later in the year and think 'yeah okay, we learned a lot from that game'.
Saturday is a big game now, both performance and result wise. Savelio has to come in for Lane for me, I think he has been poor, particularly in defence for nearly a year now. I actually think Scott has done well in the first three games, but if Carlos is back to full fitness i think we need him in to protect Mcintosh, otherwise that right edge will just become an easy target to teams. If mitchy is back id have him on the wing, a bigger and stronger right edge all round.