If there was ever a day for rugby league’s most successful expansion club to lay down a marker for the Super League title, perhaps it was today. With IMG announcing more about their plans to revolutionise the sport, and expansion clubs at the heart of that aspiration for growth, there arguably wasn’t a better time for Catalans Dragons to write their own slice of history in the process.
For the first time since arriving in Super League in 2006, Catalans have started a season with four successive league victories. Throw in the fact that this latest triumph – their first at Wigan since 2011 and only their third on this ground – was achieved in miserable conditions, the kind that Dragons seemed incapable of winning in just a few years ago, and it is difficult not to be impressed. As starts go, this is as encouraging as you’re likely to find.
