Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 5:25 am  

Short turn around, which for me is good, but not for the players. Despite the fact they are as bad if not worst than us currently I really don't fancy is to win and have a feeling we might get beat easily.

Sneyd is out and Manu didn't look good.

Hopefully Connor, Talanoa and Thompson (guessing he was rested is back.)

Worried about Griffin, has been poor (not the only one) but reading his tweet I'm not sure his head is right.

Could we give Wray a game at 7, then use Connor in the centres, play someone out of position (Michaels, Thompson etc) or give Griffin another game?

Have to win one of the next two to have a chance of making the top 4.

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:15 am  

Squad announced:

Shaul, Carlos, Griffin, Talanoa, Kelly, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Ellis, Connor, Green, Washy, Michaels, Manu, Bowden, Rawsthorne, Turgut, Downs, Fash

Interesting still no Thompson. Does that put his long term future in doubt?

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:27 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Squad announced:

Shaul, Carlos, Griffin, Talanoa, Kelly, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Ellis, Connor, Green, Washy, Michaels, Manu, Bowden, Rawsthorne, Turgut, Downs, Fash

Interesting still no Thompson. Does that put his long term future in doubt?

As everyone know I'm not his biggest fan, but if fit he should surely be in the squad.

Hopefully Ellis will play, certainly fancy our chances more if he does, wouldn't be suprised though if this squad changes a bit, as doubt Radford would have had time to access the injuries

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:28 am  

Dave K. wrote:

As everyone know I'm not his biggest fan, but if fit he should surely be in the squad.

Hopefully Ellis will play, certainly fancy our chances more if he does, wouldn't be suprised though if this squad changes a bit, as doubt Radford would have had time to access the injuries

Thompson is ill..

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:35 am  

weaver93 wrote:

Thompson is ill..

Thought it was strange

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:46 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Have to win one of the next two to have a chance of making the top 4.

Dont be daft. We need a win to put those defeats behind us and get some momentum back into the season, but even if we lose both we will likely only be 1 point behind the 4 with 13 games left. Awful long way to go yet.

This is never an easy fixture, especially when you have a bunch of injuries, but Catalans look terrible. Would be very disappointing to lose this one.

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 11:56 am  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

Dont be daft. We need a win to put those defeats behind us and get some momentum back into the season, but even if we lose both we will likely only be 1 point behind the 4 with 13 games left. Awful long way to go yet.

This is never an easy fixture, especially when you have a bunch of injuries, but Catalans look terrible. Would be very disappointing to lose this one.

Meant before the split to get the extra home game, looking at our fixtures we need to win 4/5 more games for that to happen, so I'd say we have to win one of the next two.

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 12:16 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Meant before the split to get the extra home game, looking at our fixtures we need to win 4/5 more games for that to happen, so I'd say we have to win one of the next two.

Fair enough. Even so theres still a long way to go even until the split. Admittedly I will be starting to get worried if we do lose both. I dont think we will though.

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 12:21 pm  

Catalans recall Aiton and Bird

Gigot, Inu, Yaha, Walsh, Myler, Moa, Aiton, Casty, Bird, Bousquet, Duport, Simon, Thornley, Albert, Da Costa, Seguier, Perez, Dezaria, Romano

Re: Catalans : Sat May 27, 2017 8:10 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Squad announced:

Shaul, Carlos, Griffin, Talanoa, Kelly, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Ellis, Connor, Green, Washy, Michaels, Manu, Bowden, Rawsthorne, Turgut, Downs, Fash

Interesting still no Thompson. Does that put his long term future in doubt?

Well, if they're all fit I'd go:
Shaul
Talanoa
Turgut
Tuimavave
Michaels
Connor
Kelly
Watts
Houghton
Green
Manu
Minichiello
Ellis

Bowden
Washbrook
Fash
Griffin

Griffin's best games have been off the bench IMO.