Catalans showed all that is good and all that is bad about them in this bizarre match to open their 2021 Super league season.
Having marched into what looked an unasailable lead with little over a quarter of the match to go they defaulted to normal behaviour in taking their feet off the gas allowing a Ryan Hall inspired KR to get back to 28 all taking the game into golden point extra time.
Fortunately an inspired break from Artur Morgue was enough to set up James Maloney who showed due calmness and composure in slotting over the match winning field goal.
Cue lots of relief and celebrations.
It shouldn't of course have come to this. We had the game won and by some distance before that lazy mindset set in and we let the opposition back in.
We concede way too many points away from home to be considered genuine contenders for honours and it looks like their is gong to be no chance in how things pan out for us in 2021.
I accept that there are lots of issues with the travel, late pre-season etc. so we can put this one down to fitness levels as much as thinking they had done enough to get the W.
Let's see how these issues get addressed as we go forward with the 2021 season.
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