The second half was the worry today. From the kick off Wigan went 60m in their first set when I was expecting us to come out really intense and stick it to them. It set the tone and we never got in to it after that.

Factors that may have proved the difference in the long run.

A) Our last three games have been Leeds (h) Giants and Cas away, all games that went down to the last minute to win.
Wigan have played Dragons and London at home and Dewsbury away. All games they won without breaking sweat.
Can't help feeling our tank was empty and it showed in second half.

B) I am also concerned that we have one or two individuals who don't appear to be able to deliver a consistent performance week to week. LMS and Turner are prime examples of this - you never know what you're going to get from them whereas Tommy Mak, Jones, Wello, Robes, Amor Soliola and a few others produce week in week out. That has got to be down to attitude and if LMS and Turner can't step up then they are not good enough for Saints. They were both poor in first half at Cas and others pulled them out of the mire.

I do feel the defeat may not do us any harm in the long run - it may serve to bring a few people back down to earth and get them to refocus for the coming week. COYS

The same can be said about the Wigan knock on from the kick off in the second half ... But he did ignore that

I just think it's a joke. If your 1m or 2m offside it's still offside. Every team is offside on kick offs but it's never given. I think silverdud was just being petty.

It was pretty hilarious given his reluctance to give penalties for offside generally. Wigan exploited his weakness to the max, not bothering to go back to the ref and setting off early as well. There were so many examples of horrendously blatant offsides, including one where a Wigan forward set off with his hand planted on the referee, one where the ref couldn't see the play the ball as there were Wigan players directly in front of him and one where he told a couple of Wigan players to get back because they were offside, only for them to charge through and make the tackle and he didn't give the penalty.

It's something we need to do as a club. If the referee isn't giving penalties for offside, be offside all the time and he'll continue to not give penalties.

I just took it as the refs being under a little fan pressure to not give anything to Saints for the next few games.

You tend to find when people independence is called into question they will go above and beyond to show they are not trying to favour one side. It will be like this for a little while until some other side becomes the refs supposed bias and then that side will get a more microscopic examination of their game and then the playoffs will kick in and the refs and fans will settle down and not be so up tight about refs and more about the players.

That use to happen when we had Ganson on our games, rather than favour us most of the time he would over officiate us to make absolutely sure he wasn,t bias.
For some reason Ian Smith always seemed to be biased against, his history of disallowing our trys or finding a way to penalise us was horrendous.