Engage Super League's bottom club have already beaten last year's Grand Finalists Leeds and St Helens this season and drew with Wigan Warriors last Sunday.

Their other victory was away at top-six contenders Warrington Wolves and Catic believes they rise to the occasion against the fancied teams.

"It's amazing," said Catic. "We seem to go out against the better teams and put a good performance in.

"Obviously we prepare ourselves really well for those games. For some reason, I don't know what it is, against the so-called lesser teams – if you can call them that – we don't play so well.

"We're playing Leeds this week, so hopefully we'll put another good performance in. You'd think the way we've gone this year, playing the top teams brings the best out of us. The boys certainly seem to lift."

Rhinos will be below full strength, but Catic insisted: "It's going to be tough, whoever we play.

"They have got players out on international duty, but we can't really worry about how they are going to go.

"We've got to focus on the way we are going to attack the game, we will go in with full confidence, build from last week and hopefully get the win regardless of what players they've got out there."

Tigers dominated much of the game against Wigan, leading 12-0 early on, and Catic said the point has given them added belief for Saturday's clash.

"We have been coming up short for the last few weeks, so just to take a point was tremendous for us," he said.

"It's up to us to build on that, because every time we've won a game this year, we haven't backed it up the next week. We keep saying it, but it is important we go out against Leeds and put in another good performance."

Catic believes Tigers are improving.

"It has been hard for Cas to rebuild, coming back into Super League," he said. "But every week we are in the game, whether it be the 20th, 50th or 60th minute.

"It's just lapses, for 10 minutes, that can really hurt us.
"Unfortunately, in those 10 minutes a lot of the time two, three or four tries are being scored.

"You can't win games if you let that amount of tries in in such a short space of time.

"We are building every week and as long as we can sort out that 10-15 minute period in every game, in most games we will either win or it'll go down to the wire, like it did on Sunday."

Meanwhile Tigers centre Michael Shenton has agreed a new two-year deal with the club.

The 21-year-old Pontefract-born academy product is the latest of the club's talented youngsters to commit his future to theclub alongside England squad member Joe Westerman, Craig Huby, while Richard Owen and Ryan Boyle are also tied up for next term.