Totally agree ...hopefully he will keep Fitzy out of the team with these performances...forever

Pathetic comment.



Granted it is a poor result, but we have come off the back of three wins which were all close and hard fought games. The Leeds game will have taken a lot out of the players mentally and physically and Catalan was probably the worst place for us to go after a game such as that. It sounds like the journey down there was a nightmare and took 11 hours, christ knows what happened and the hot weather is a massive advantage to Catalan.



Lets also not forget the different in class between us and Catalans, man for man they are far superior and the scoreline shows that.



Hopefully the fans who went over enjoyed their trip regardless of the result, it is a massive improvement on the last time I went over there in 2007 when we got spanked 66-6 in the pouring rain.

Plenty of fair excuses for last nights performance as stated above. The main thing for me is there is definitely a good spirit again in the camp.



Its unfair to single out Goulding and to play him out of position. He is a centre and if we are to compare him with what we have then he should play there instead of Littler who offers nothing for the future.



Wilshere has made #1 his own but for me there is a space for Fitzy - maybe as undertudy to Robbie Paul for next season and beyond.

I am just watchin the '[ihighlights[/i' on Sky.

So far, from what has been screened, Goulding has made just the one mistake, and he wasn't the only one at fault in that instance imo.



.......he must have a real shocker in the 2nd half if some people's opinions are to be considered accurate...........I'll wait and see

.......... strewth, he wasn't that bad



I've seen far worse individual performances.



All in all, a tired looking performance, but that was probably to be expected, and not the end of the world.

Dont think you can criticise goulding to much seen as he did play out off position. was not a great performance but i think we can beat hull next week seen as they are on such a bad run of form. and my dad nearly got killed by a catalans fan in a toilet.

Did anyone see the video ref knock on/rip out decision on sky? Was it any clearer on proper telly than it was on a PC screen.

I watched the highlights on the Super League Show and you couldn't really see as they only showed one angle. There were two in the tackle as he went over the line and the ball came loose. It could have been avoided though if our players hadn't just stopped and watched the ball - I think it was Adamson who realised that it hadn't been blown dead and ran to try and ground it but he was a split second second too late.

Good to speak to a couple of Salford fans on the Liverpool-Carcassone flight on Friday, hope they enjoyed the trip, despite the result

Finally back, (well I say finally probably rather still be there) We started well early on, but they are a very good side, huge pack then take into account they have alot of pace in the side and Bosc pulling the strings they are very difficult to play against. I feel playing 4 very tough games in 13 days probably had something to do with it, we have had a tough Easter and we felt the impact on Saturday, I am not complaining though, everyone else had the same problem. No one really stood out on Saturday 'reasonable' performance by most, poor by a couple. But it's difficult to point the blame onto individuals, having to fly out there and play 4 days after beating Leeds at Headingley, the fatigue was evdient on the players faces in the airport last night. Have to just forget that game now, try and prepare as best we can for Hull on Saturday. Anyway, we don't need to win again this year, We won at Leeds!

I think that about sums it up. To be honest I didn't think we played that poorly but more down to the fact that the Dragons controlled the ball better which meant we couldn't get any decent possession of field position. Our kicking game, which has been great at times this year, just wasn't there and as has been said we looked more than a little weary.



The heat won't have helped, after the forecasters told us it would be overcast and wet on Saturday nothing could have been further from the truth

, believe me it was very, very hot on game day, having said that it did pi55 down for most of Friday.



Not looking for excuses as I said I think we did ok in large parts of the game, but the lads only arrived at the hotel on Friday evening so they didn't get much time to adjust or train, no fault of the club BTW, they were just delayed.

When the fixture list came out I looked at the Easter schedule and noticed Catalan away straight after Leeds away on the Monday and thought then how kind of the Rugby League to give us them two five days apart, plus Catalan getting two home games on the trot, no doubt because they played on the Monday and the League would have felt it unfair for them to have to travel.