Super League: Catalans Dragons 13-14 St Helens – Saints pip Les Dracs in thrilling finale

Catalans head coach Steve McNamara:

“I thought it was a great contest and both teams played extremely well in the conditions, it’s very difficult for people to understand how tough that was to play.

“Both teams had a game plan, then looked at the weather and scrapped it but having said that I thought we played really well in attack for the majority of the game and defended well.

“For those two St Helens tries, I thought Jack Welsby was outstanding on both sets and it’s cost us dearly. Coming back from that point took a lot of energy but it was one of those games of fine margins and Saints just pipped us to the posts.

“I don’t think we’ve had a game this season in decent weather and it’s tested us again tonight but credit to Saints, Jack Welsby was outstanding for those couple of try plays and Lomax’s kicking the drop goals was the difference.”

St Helens boss Paul Wellens:

“It’s almost impossible to prepare for those windy conditions, you can’t replicate 60mph winds in training… you just have to be alert to things.

“You saw how many last plays bounced and it became a competition for the ball, some went our way and some went theirs.

“For Jonny to land two drop goals in those conditions is outstanding.

“It’s great that we won a tight game against top opposition and we’re going to need to do that again moving forward.

“There’s a lot we can take from this in terms of improvements so we will look to find them for next week.”