Brough long pass Smurph in without a hand on him, 8-0 to giants kick to come from out wide

Kick missed 8-0

Catalans over line exactly same as leroy's and guess what, Child didnt bother with screen and has given it himself. 8-4 kick to come

Kick missed 8-4 to Giants 2 mins left 1st half and we started to drop off tackles!!

Catalan in again 8-8 kick to come just at side of sticks,

10-8 to them halftime

That result was absolutely crucial! Round 13 last year we also played catalan away and came away bitterly disappointed following a game we really should have won. We then went on to lose, I think, 5 in a row with a win at home to London breaking up a dismal run and our season fell apart. The psychological boost this win will provide is great- especially doing it with 12 men- for both players AND fans. Oh when the giants.....

Brilliant!!



...........and what a difference in attitude to last years dismal "run -out"

PA is instilling some backbone that was lacking in last years fade out



We didnt back off one bit -and it showed in the end !!



One complaint (not about the lads so don`t get excited!!!)



Fancy bringing transmission to an end with what? 15/20mins to go !!

Amazing! Still we did it even though I bet many were biting their nails!!

Excellent result, the French would have been screaming for more red cards/penalties in the last 10.



From what i saw, Brough and Lunt were on top form and Ferres and Wardle looked very threatening on the left.

We're already showing more character this year, last year we would have lost that match !!.

I'm not saying that we would or wouldn't have won this match last year, but let's just remember how we won at Leeds with only 12 men.

How did the beast play?

Or le beast?

got back late lastnight



wouldnt drive up from lloret de mar and back down again in the same day, just too much of a drive, tiring!!!!



the weather was awful , colder than here. approx 200 giants fans made the trip over and were in great voice.



i have never been to such a biased game towards the home team, it was an absolute joke and so is childs.



anyway , great win and victory was very sweet.

Just looking at the stats and it looks like the Giants did really well to get the win. They made very little yardage particularly down the middle with only the two wingers making more than 100 metres. Our forwards seemed to make very little impact with ball in hand.

Faiumu and Taii look like they got virtually no game time so it was almost like playing with 15 which shows the efoort those players must have put in particulalry after losing Robinson.

Only 12 missed tackles is great defence with Lawrence making 38 and missing none.

We sored 5 tries which is great going against a team that only missed 9 tackles all game.

11-7 to catalans in the penalty count too.



faiumu went off injured



taai played limited mins again but made some strong carries, topped the average gain chart.



lawrence again showing his worth down the middle