Give the lad a break!!

He's 19. He's played 2 SL games and he's expected to go in at centre and do the same job as a Gidley? It was the wrong decision by Potter to put him in at centre, or if there is no one else put Gardner, Foster together and Lomax and Gidley.

In 2 years time when Lomax, Foster and Wheeler are playing a more regular position in the squad, when they've bulked up a bit, when they're playing in their right position - judge them then. Not when their coach has put two inexperienced players on one side, any team that does that then it's always going to be a recipe for disaster.

Same goes for Scott Moore - don't judge him now when he's being expected to play in a unfamiliar positions, judge him next year when he's playing regular hooker!!

he wouldnt be in team if any of Soliola, Wheeler, Dean, Flannery and Meli were fit - they are not, so we are down to the bones of the squad.

I've not seen the SKY replay, but I assume that Eddie & Stevo were as sympathetic to Saints injury plight as they were to Leeds earlier this year?

Dont think they mentioned it to be honest.

Meli, Flannery, Wheeler, Fa'asavalu, Dean, Soliola, im pretty sure 5/6 of those would be in the first team if they weren't injured.

But we aren't the Whinos so it wouldn't get mentioned.

Wilkin too.

Bottom line is, though, that we had a threadbare squad against Leeds too but went out and played like we meant it. We looked like we didn't want to be there on Saturday - that had more of an impact on the result than injuries.

Poor attitude (with a couple of notable exceptions) and we got what we deserved.

Yeh that's true enough.

It wasn't particularly relevant. We didn't get beaten by a side outplaying or overpowering us.

Sure the first couple of tries came from our inexperienced duo of Foster and Lomax missing tackles, pretty horrifically it has to be added. Despite Foster being out of position and drowning, Lomax had two one on one tackles that would have shut out the first couple of tries and they just went over him like he was a speed bump.

The majority of the rest of the tries came from stupid individual errors. I can only think of the Gibson and Broughton tries where there were genuine moves put on us. The majority I can remember were from pretty poor kicks that we made totally unforced errors from. Even Broughton's try saw yet another embarassing attempt at a tackle from Wellens.

Despite how shocking we were with the ball, we should still have won that game and even if we were full strength I don't see how that would stop Wellens and Gardner gifting them about 24 points.