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Dragons back up to second after Perpignan rout

Last updated: 24th May 2008

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Potter: Perfect response

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Mick Potter said Catalans Dragons had given the "perfect response" to their two recent defeats in their 48-0 drubbing of Huddersfield.

The Dragons ran in eight tries in Perpignan in a one-sided contest which got them back to winning ways after successive defeats to Bradford and St Helens.

Clint Greenshields helped himself to a hat-trick of tries and Thomas Bosc kicked eight goals as Potter's men moved back up to second place in Super League.

Afterwards Potter said: "It's been a tough May for us especially after being rolled over by St Helens and Bradford like we were in the last two games.

"It was the perfect response from our players to those disappointments and I couldn't be happier with them.

"I thought the players worked well defensively and executed exceptionally well on attack.

Errors

"At the same time I saw more errors from Huddersfield in this game than I have in almost any others in which they've been involved this season.

"That gave us field position and we capitalised on their errors superbly, and all credit to them for that."

Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp was far from happy with his players.

He said: "I'm devastated with what I've seen tonight. After last week's great performance against Hull KR, I thought we'd turned the corner.

"Unfortunately that hasn't proved the case and what we saw in this game has been indicative of our season. We were out-muscled and bullied and that really disappoints me.

"We knew that is was going to be a tough game but it seems as if the players were not prepared for it.

"We started the game badly, giving away two quick tries, and were then on the back foot throughout the game.

"This defeat shows we've still an awful lot of work to do."

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