Talking of getting rid of players after 5 games is way premature. Even Sinfield put a few out on the full in his time at Leeds, and wasn't much of a threat with the ball either.

Who is available? Knee-jerker's favourite Brad Dwyer? Sensational Sutcliffe?

Frawley reminds me of Dunneman in some respects, although very much early days. He's no world beater but moves the team around, and has more defensive heart than Sezer and Austin put together.

If we can put together this week's 1st half against saints & last weeks 2nd half against Leigh we'd look one heck of a team. For me we didn't turn our pressure into points tonight where as saints did that was the only difference

Lachie Miller is looking more electric for us each week can't wait to see him in summer on some dry tracks.

If we get Momirovski & Lisone back next week and can take our chances I'd back us to dump Saints out of cup.

Thought it was a very high standard game. Credit to Saints for hanging tough when we were stretching them all over the place in the first half. I'm not normally one to bag the coach but I thought his selection of Edgell on the bench was big factor in the loss. As the game went on we needed a bit more impact off the bench and we were never going to get that with a teenage full back. Very odd. Let's see what we can learn from this next week.

Edgell was meant to be 18th man, Ruan was ill, so Donno was meant to be 17th. Croft wasn’t 100% (think there's been illness through the group) so we needed cover in the backs.

Agree with all that. Plus points: Miller was great although his kick off out on the full killed us. Oledski looks the best prop in SL. Holroyd is getting back to match fitness and Sangare was solid especially in first stint.

Very frustrating we did so well to get into control of the game and then three it away with errors; but there’s next week.

Dont agree it was a big factor for the loss but it did seem a strange decision to have Edgell as sub.

We look 100% better side with Mik on the field

Look hot for the first half an hour, the rest was crap.

I really don’t get the love for Oledzki, just a big pudding. That game was crying out for an enforcer, and unfortunately only Bentley tries to be one.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. With any luck we'll actually have four true props in the 17 next week. Will do wonders for us.

The 1st half was as good as we have played under Smith. Players running on the ball at pace, winning the ruck and excellent line speed in defence leading to us dominating field position. Everything we have been crying out for
and what has been lacking in most other games this season and last. The ball was in play with few stoppages and we looked great. Credit to Saints, we could have been well in front by half time against most sides.
Unfortunately the 2nd half was more of what we have served up too often recently. Errors, followed by conceding territory too easily. We stopped doing all the things that were working in the 1st half.
That said there was a lot to like and I actually thought it was probably our best performance of the season, despite losing.

That’s what i was told, Smith says different in his presser so who knows

Im not sure what game you were watching, Oledski dominated every collision in attack and defence and we dropped when he went off.