: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:31 pm  

much obliged. spoke to adrian morley this morning, he not been to barcelona since he was a kid and very upbeat about the atmosphere. out of interest, which of the dragons players would it be accurate to describe as catalan? guessing it's people from perpignan and around (guisset, bosc) as opposed to guys like ferriol from lezignan or fakir who i think has north african background?

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:19 pm  

Andy Wilson wrote:

much obliged. spoke to adrian morley this morning, he not been to barcelona since he was a kid and very upbeat about the atmosphere. out of interest, which of the dragons players would it be accurate to describe as catalan? guessing it's people from perpignan and around (guisset, bosc) as opposed to guys like ferriol from lezignan or fakir who i think has north african background?

You'd have to do a bit of research as to find out where they were born, but the guys with Catalan surnames are:

Thomas Bosc (Bosc=Forest)
David Ferriol
Julien Touxagas
Florian Quintilla
Rémi Casty
David Guasch
Mathias Pala (Pala=Shovel)
Vincent Pagès (Pagès=Farmer)

Don't know who out of that eight will actually be involved though.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:44 pm  

Guisset from Perpignan? I thought he picked up league as an expat living in Oz, at least he always gets labelled as an ozzy.

Yup, the big two will be "world-class" Ferriol and "the man pulling the strings" Bosc.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:02 pm  

No, Jerome signed for Canberra as a teenager after impressing as a youngster in france (he went on to make 4 appearances in the NRL and learnt his english out there hence the accent). I actually have a programme from a GB v Aus match at Old Trafford some years ago in which GB academy played France and Jerome is listed on the teamsheet - incidently Warrington's Lee Briers lined up in the GB team in the same game.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:18 pm  

Raining at the moment, but hopefully it will get it all out of the way for tomorrow.

Re: Catalans vs Wire in Barcleona : Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:21 am  

wireontour wrote:

Our away support is estimated to be 3000+ with some people saying that as many as 6000 will travel.

Looking forward to it

An you have the cheek to take the pi$$ out of Rovers

: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:48 pm  

This is rubbish, you can tell Catalans are a good team receiving next to no coaching input.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:21 am  

Wes Hooligan wrote:

This is rubbish, you can tell Catalans are a good team receiving next to no coaching input.

and your reasoning for that is.....

Walters has come in with his new ideas and its taken the players longer than expected to settle into his ways etc etc. the dragons beat leeds last time out so you can't say that there is no coaching input.

Sometimes these things just happen, you also should take into account that the majority of the dragons team played last week, where as how many of the warrington players played in the international.

You sometimes just have one of those days at the office, how many would expect greeny to drop the ball whilst running with it after taking so many high balls with ease?

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:30 am  

Cala Millor Rhino wrote:

and your reasoning for that is.....

Better team except for one or two inexplicable journeymen signings. Said rubbish players get first-team time for no good reason. Better team doing less well.
Results are poor
Squad selection is poor
Do the math

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:08 am  

belgianxiii wrote:

Better team except for one or two inexplicable journeymen signings. Said rubbish players get first-team time for no good reason. Better team doing less well.
Results are poor
Squad selection is poor
Do the math

what makes you justify a good reason?