Catalans win again, unbeaten in 7 SL games

[ParraEelsNRL]

They made it 7 SL games without a lose to move into 2nd place on the table with only Wigan to play this weekend who can make them drop 1 place into 3rd, well done.

38-30 over Castleford.

One worrying thing though, every game they seem to get someone sin binned or sent off, this is going to hurt them something shocking one day, they need to get their discipline better and they also have one of the worst defenses in the comp, hopefully their new coach whomever he is gets their defense right, once they fix that up, they will def be a top SL club.

At the moment, only Quins and Castleford have a worse defense with Quins letting in 295 and Cas letting in 381 compared to les Catalans 280.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyle...TORY_NAME=rleague/08/04/25/manual_211922.html

In the night's other game, the Catalans Dragons climbed to second in the table with a 38-30 victory over lowly Castleford.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyle...eague/08/04/26/RUGBYL_Catalans_Nightlead.html

Form team Catalans Dragons were pushed all the way by Super League's bottom club Castleford before extending the club record unbeaten run to eight matches.

The Dragons, who discovered this week they will lose popular coach Mick Potter to St Helens at the end of the season, completed the double over the Tigers in front of another bumper crowd of 8,745 at the Gilbert Brutus Stadium.

 

[Robster]

who were the try scorers?

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Catalans Dragons 38

Sebastien Raguin
Clint Greenshields
Justin Murphy
Aaron Gorrell
Jerome Guisset
Gregory Mounis
Dimitri Pelo

Goal:

Thomas Bosc 5

Castleford 30


Joe Westerman
Ryan McGoldrick
Michael Shenton
Michael Korkidas
Adam Fletcher

Goal:

Kirk Dixon 5

 

[ozbash]

Good stuff, go the Dragons.

 

[Ari Gold]

Well done Potter.

 

[screeny]

I watched the game. It was pretty good apart from the now obligatory rash of penalties that are seemingly blown, if not on every set, then every other set. It's very frustrating and has slightly lessened the appeal of RL in recent years (although that appeal slack has been taken up by the athletes/intensity improving - note the Friday match Saints v Wire which was simply breathtaking).

Anyway, I digress. Les Cats are a lot less predictable than they were last year and last night you really got the impression that physically they were in control, even when Cas came back.

McGuire is still too casual for me, and Carlaw doesn't seem to be working enough, but Gorrell is such a player! Pelo was outstanding. Fakir only played sparingly (I think it was him but he did so little I can't be sure) and Mogg was brilliant too.

A commanding display in which they were always the better side.