Catalans pack looked good - they all looked areal handful. Whitely is very underrated. Sam Tomkins was the gamebreaker in the first half. He can't be far off an England recall.
Sam is a joy to watch when he's in this kind of form. Actually, the whole team is. Mead was excellent. Davies was excellent. McIlorum's kicking game was on-point. But discipline let us down a bit in the second half, and...
I think McIlorum and Joel Tomkins might be having a few anxious days before Tuesday's disciplinary meetings.
...this.
Dwyer was having an impact at the start of the second half until McIlorum gave him a tickle. Old school
That one bothered me a bit less than the silly high tackles that les Dracs kept giving away penalties for through the middle of the second half
Oh, and I rather enjoyed Mikołaj Olędzki getting
minced by Sam Kasiano when Mik completely misjudged a tackle and got the full force of Big Sam so hard that his ancestors felt it
Credit to Leeds though, they were a bit rocked to be 18-0 down but came back strong. They were a bit unlucky to be that far down in the first half hour, it was frantic high-pace rugby that could easily have got them some points if the Catalan defence had slipped up or Leeds had gotten a bit more luck with a bounce - as I like to point out to friends in the Perpignan area,
la balle n'est pas ronde, c'est comme ça! *miming a rugby ball shape with my hands*
Doesn't take very much for things to turn in your favour/go wildly against you.
Super League's short highlights:
That start with the break from Sam Tomkins
That 4th try from Mead
That penalty kick at distance from McIlorum
