Call it a comeback

Well, who saw this coming ?

Not me, that is for sure. 

We left this website out to dry back at the start of last year after time pressure meant that I could no longer update it. 

There was a period where the offer for someone to take over the site was place, but the option was never taken up. 

So the website was mothballed and that appeared to be that. 

But there was always a nagging itch to scratch that I wasn't done telling the story of Catalans Dragons and their fans in the UK. 

So let's give it another go, this feels like the right time with interaction and engagement high on social media platforms. 

So what did we miss in the fallow year and a bit? 

Well, there was a second grand final but that was even more of a non-event than the first one we made and that 2018 Challenge Cup Final win remains the only silverwear we have won (discounting the old seperate clubs that made up the Catalans back in the day). 

Despite some close shaves with Bernard and his meat cleaver, Steve McNamara remains in post and despite my public reservations about the coaching set up over the years, he has done a good job with three finals since 2018. 

The challenge remains winning SuperLeague and we seen intent on trying players out for just a year before binning them off (sometimes for watching Burna Boy) and starting all over again. 

It looks clear enough to me.... give some French players some time and let them develop alongside some etrangers. 

But we don't seem to learn. 

And we are now playing a super defensive, non-expansive game as the 8 players off contract look to get to the end of their time with the club with enough in the tank to hit the ground running next year. 

Challenging times.