Saddened! wrote:
I'm a big fan of Liam Moore normally, but he lost that game completely tonight. Catalans came into the game with the big bully boy tactics and he let everything go early on rather than setting the tone. He allowed all the time wasting and niggling and messing about in the ruck and Kasiano put more shoulder charges in than Sam Burgess used to manage in a season. He was lucky it didn't get incredibly ugly. One punch and it would have gone off properly.
Catalans have some superb players, but a dreadful coach and not enough intelligence on the pitch. You don't beat this Saints by trying to intimidate them, our pack love that. You beat them by playing quick and focusing on stopping Walmsley. You've got to score to win game and Catalans didn't even try to. They need to let Tomkins, Pearce and Morgue play and be more disciplined. Too many poor characters in that side.
Pretty much spot on that Sadds.
First 17 mins of that game were pretty poor for any flowing rugby if im honest as it looked like Catalans were only interested in bashing anything in a red vee.
I was impressed that it looked like you always had a gear or two to go up while they looked like they had shot their bolt in the first half after throwing the kitchen sink at you and from then on were more interested in grubbing their way around the pitch.
Probably frustrated how the season ended from them and the alleged issues within that game and ol' Bernard fuelling a "us against them / no backward step" mentality all off season. A shame really as they can play some champagne league but seem to go for the grub route back into games when behind.
