I must admit to only having watched the highlights of this one rather than sitting through the full game.
It was enough however to see that this was as low key occasion as would have been expected. For the fans that did gather in rainy Humberside the score line was a nice swingometer between the two clubs. The lack of quality and interest of both sides didn’t detract from the fact that Catalans were looking for that rarest of things, a win on the road.
Hull were looking to avoid some of the hammerings of recent weeks. So both teams will have gone away with both objectives achieved and pride intact.
Regular on our forum “Catalanglais” was at the game and filed this report along with player ratings.
“We were hopeless at the start and would have conceded several tries to anyone else. But we scored twice and they did not get ahead until the the last 10 minutes .We then scored 2 excellent tries.
Marks out of 10
Gigot 4 -1 good try ,but poor in defence
Tierney 2 -clearly badly injured in the warm up and dropped many high balls
Mead 7
Wiliame 8
Thornley 9 -possibly his best ever game for us
Drinkwater 5
Albert 5
Moa 7
Mcillorum 6
Maria 7
Juliene 7
Bird 8
Baitieri 6
Bench Edwards 8 Goudamond 7 Belmas 6 Dacosta 7”
