Sat 6th Apr: SL: Catalans Dragons v St Helens KO 20:15 (UK Time) (Sky/BBC/SuperLeague+)

[John Drake]

Please stick to discussing the match in question and do not accuse match officials of being biased or corrupt or you run the risk of being immediately banned from the forum.

[sam4731]

Unofficial World Championship on the line in this match.

[Josef K]

I think there are only two clubs who haven’t lost a home game this season in Catalans & wigan. I was wondering which was the last club that went undefeated at home in the SL!!!!. 

[Archie Gordon]

It's on the BBC but almost impossible to know that via the BBC itself. Such a shame for a glam fixture.

Hoping the Dragons get Mourgue, Fages and Nikorima back in the mix.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

21 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:

It's on the BBC but almost impossible to know that via the BBC itself. Such a shame for a glam fixture.

Hoping the Dragons get Mourgue, Fages and Nikorima back in the mix.

Mourgue and Fages are in the squad.  Nikorima isn't.

1. Arthur MOURGUE
2. Tom DAVIES
3. Arthur ROMANO
4. Matthieu LAGUERRE
7. Théo FAGES
8. Mike McMEEKEN
9. Micky McILORUM
10. Julian BOUSQUET
11. Tariq SIMS
12. Paul SEGUIER
13. Benjamin GARCIA
14. Alrix DA COSTA
16. Romain NAVARRETE
17. César ROUGE
18. Ugo TISON
20. Chris SATAE
21. Matt IKUVALU
24. Tom JOHNSTONE
25. Loan CASTANO
27. Jordan ABDULL
28. Franck MARIA

 

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

If you take the mean of the average points per game scored by Catalans and the number conceded by Saints, and then do the 'mirror image' calculation, it suggests a scoreline of something like Els Dracs 16, the Red Vee 18.  Sadly, I could well believe that was about right.

[N2022]

3 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:

It's on the BBC but almost impossible to know that via the BBC itself. Such a shame for a glam fixture.

Hoping the Dragons get Mourgue, Fages and Nikorima back in the mix.

Yes, comes to something when I'm more likely to find out what the BBC games are on here - addition of channels covering to thread title is a great feature - than by looking on the BBC's own rugby league pages. Woefully marketed of late and I wouldn't be surprised if this game only appeared on there about 25 mins before kick off. As you say, this one is relatively glam too.

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Cats by 6.

[ATLANTISMAN]

Really looking forward to this will be leaving early to attend the pre match.

On another note am sitting with Gilles Dumas from the FFR13 to run though things for June 29th YES ITS ON IN TOULOUSE:)

Edited April 4 by ATLANTISMAN

[lucky 7]

20 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:

It's on the BBC but almost impossible to know that via the BBC itself. Such a shame for a glam fixture.

Hoping the Dragons get Mourgue, Fages and Nikorima back in the mix.

I think i heard its on BBC 3.

[soulboy]

10 minutes ago, lucky 7 said:

I think i heard its on BBC 3.

Correct . It’s been allocated 2 hours coverage .

More crumbs from the table .

[JohnM]

I think Saints may well overcome Cat's home advantage,  however noisy and demonstrative it may be. Hedging my bets, though, it's perhaps too difficult to call. Maybe the best disciplined team wins.

[N2022]

3 hours ago, soulboy said:

Correct . It’s been allocated 2 hours coverage .

More crumbs from the table .

BBC3? Very cool.

[north yorks trinity]

3 minutes ago, N2022 said:

BBC3? Very cool.

And unfortunately very obscure.

I don't have Sky and as has been said by a previous poster I'd have had no idea it was on but for this thread.

[north yorks trinity]

Looking forward to check out this Tom Johnstone guy Wakefield are supposedly chasing to see if he's any good. 

[N2022]

4 minutes ago, north yorks trinity said:

And unfortunately very obscure.

I don't have Sky and as has been said by a previous poster I'd have had no idea it was on but for this thread.

Yes, quite. The BBC coverage is a nice idea but execution is not reaching people who aren't in the know.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

6 minutes ago, north yorks trinity said:

Looking forward to check out this Tom Johnstone guy Wakefield are supposedly chasing to see if he's any good. 

I can tell you - he's terrible!  Best thing the Wakey management could do is leave the Dragons to be saddled with his no doubt extortionate salary yet again next season!

[sam4731]

10 minutes ago, north yorks trinity said:

And unfortunately very obscure.

I don't have Sky and as has been said by a previous poster I'd have had no idea it was on but for this thread.

I've posted on here that 5STAR gets more average viewers. There's probably a lot of people that didn't know that Channel 5 had a secondary channel.

[N2022]

1 hour ago, sam4731 said:

I've posted on here that 5STAR gets more average viewers. There's probably a lot of people that didn't know that Channel 5 had a secondary channel.

A massively underrated band, 5 Star, and big fans of RL judging by the titles of some of their hits ...

Silk and (man of) steel

The slightest touch (sees tackled player holding his head looking to ref for a card for his opponent)

Their shoulder pads were a bit more NFL than NRL, though.

 

[StandOffHalf]

First I'd heard of this being on the Beeb.

[ATLANTISMAN]

BBC 3 is a joke channel they need a word in their ear, its starting to smell why they did this deal:(

[sam4731]

31 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

BBC 3 is a joke channel they need a word in their ear, its starting to smell why they did this deal:(

Well we were led to believe that they 'outbid' C4 for the rights. What the bloody hell did C4 offer?

[audois]

L'Equipe Sports paper  covered all over France are on the up - did a piece on  the Dragons -Saints today - quarter of the page. Hope it continues

[lucky 7]

56 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

BBC 3 is a joke channel they need a word in their ear, its starting to smell why they did this deal:(

They are covering the game tonight with a 20.05 kick off.

[Pen-Y-Bont Crusader]

Sky Sports radio advert on Classic FM as part of the 'Big Match Weekend' Man U v Liverpool and Catalans v Saints  .