Dragons beat Featherstone


 
 

Catalans Dragons (18) 26

T : Krisnan Inu, Brayden Wiliame, Ben Garcia, Sam Moa
G : Luke Walsh 2, Krisnan Inu 3

Featherstone Rovers (12) 12

T : Sam Brooks, Anthony Thackeray
G : Kyran Johnson 2

 

Catalans Dragons kept alive their hopes of an automatic place in Betfred Super League next season with a 26-12 victory over Featherstone Rovers.

Hull Kingston Rovers secured their Super League status for 2018 with victory over Widnes Vikings, meaning at least one team will drop out this season.

Catalans started the Qualifiers slowly but have now registered back-to-back wins for the first time since April, following their win over Halifax last weekend.

The hosts opened the scoring in the sixth minute, Krisnan Inu taking Richie Myler's flat pass to reach out and touch down as Luke Walsh added the conversion.

There were further home tries from Ben Garcia, Brayden Wiliame, and Sam Moa as Walsh kicked over a further goal and Inu added three.

Featherstone replied with first-half efforts from Samuel Brooks and Anthony Thackeray - both converted by Kryan Johnson - but the visitors failed to add anything in the second half.

 

 

Team sheet

Dragons : Tierney, Duport, Inu, Wiliame, Yaha, Walsh, Myler, Moa, Da Costa, Casty, Anderson, Horo, Garcia
Subs: Bousquet, Baitieri, Albert, Margalet

Featherstone : Johnson, Briscoe, Hardcastle, Taulapapa, Turner, Thackeray, Wildie, Brooks, Carlile, Mariano, Farrell, Davies, Lockwood
Subs: Tagg,  Cooper, Walters, Igbinedion

Stadium : Gilbert Brutus

Referee: Liam Moore

Attendance: 8,649

Man of the match : Sam Moa

Sin bins:

Dragons : Ben Garcia, Louis Anderson
Featherstone : Luke Briscoe, Keal Carlile