Tigers v Catalans

Matt

Haven’t a clue how today will go. Hoping we put in a good performance and 2 points would be a bonus.

Hepworth

Yup,I can’t pick it,Cats have some class and a fair bit of size in the pack but they don’t always travel well.With neither side having shown much consistency it could just be which team turns up on the day. Not sure if a repeat of our Salford performance would be enough but good if Milnes is back and Hoy looks better at full back.

Matt

Weather is bad and we’re making basic mistakes. Just keep hold of the ball rather than trying to offload or play anything fancy.

stuey

Rubbish performance, but getting wrong end of every marginal decision.
Far to many mistakes by us, and we have missed 3 clear scoring chances.
All Their 20 points from our mistakes.

43sflyer

This is a very hard watch, looking like we have never played before

stuey

Catalans did not have to play well, they just had to wait for us to make mistakes and gift them points. They were not that good themselves.

Hepworth

Agree with everything said, pretty poor all round. Catalan turned up and played the conditions better while we gift wrapped the 2 points for them. Maguire seemed to get better performances from a supposedly weaker squad last season. Hindsight is great but continuity might have been the way forward,still early for Maguire but he doesn’t appear to have put a stamp on this side yet.

Hepworth

Apologise I meant Lingard had got better performances from a weaker squad last season.

Maturecasfan

Funny how jepson as gone very quiet.

TheFirm

Quite frankly we aren’t very good. Bar a handful of players the squad as a whole just isn’t up to scratch. The coaching looks non existent. And off the field the club is a shambles, no CEO, terrible social media etc. Throw in zero chance of the Axiom development coming into being anytime soon then we are in a massive hole.

Matt

It’s probably too early to start mentioning McGuire but I can’t see anything resembling a game plan. We look too predictable and a squad that doesn’t have any direction.

We might not have internationals or a team full of star players but we should have a squad that wants to play for each other and put all of their effort in every week and for most of them I don’t see it.

The conditions were set to be pretty grim today and they were. We should have held the ball and kept it simple, let Catalans try and push to break us down and wait for their mistakes to come instead of throwing wild offloads.

The problem with former players or coaches that come from the top teams is that they’re so used to being around quality and when it comes to getting the most out of a team that doesn’t have that they struggle. Look at Powell and his skill set and how he manages to get the most out of the team.

stuey

Let’s face it. We have 3 or 4 players at most who are SL standard (at best), and the team as a whole would be no better than mid-table in the Championship.

We are going to get some serious hammerings this season. Catalan were poor today but we made them look great.

pirate

Crowd numbers dropping, pss poor performances, racist abuse from supporters etc we will lose that A grade this time and possibly get relegated,
DM is out of his depth and the squad is shte on yesterdays showing.
Depressed? you f*****g bet I am
The only positive is that I stayed in Scarborough

CTID

Maturecasfan

Club is reaping what they sowed.
Bring in basement bargin players, get a basement bargin performance.

RaoulDuke

Just to address a few things from yesterday’s shambles.

Mr Jepson there again, which is nice but was hoping to see the directors box full of people with money to spend on us but not even half full. The home secretary was there also which was nice and they had a chat at half time. Hopefully she knows a few players either with money or with a rugby ball!

We were poor, getting pushed over by the forwards quite a bit. We just didn’t play the conditions. I dislike rat boy tompkins but he was outstanding. Was in the ear of the ref all the game and got a few decisions from it from what I saw.

I don’t think the team is coached to play together, the half’s have no moves with the backs. It’s just so disjointed. Its not time for a coaching change but I’d be looking around and sounding people out though. We need a CEO or similar before that. It can’t just be Mr Wilson running the club.

I saw Dezaria pointing to the railway end but let’s be clear there were about 20 people there in groups of 1 or 2. Not a mass of potential racists. Whatever it was was a one person isolated incident, not the takeover of Poland.

And boy did it rain. Haven’t seen a deluge like that in a while.

Hepworth

Unfortunately you can’t legislate for the odd idiot amongst a crowd of several thousand,little or nothing the club can do to deter the intellectually challenged. Of course you can ban the individual if you find them but even then hardly likely to change the attitude of a few morons who don’t recognise the irony of supporting a team as ethically diverse as ours. Having been to grounds throughout the country you’ll hear similar at most of them including Catalan.