Pressed red on SS3 and not a sausage anybody getting this too?

False alarm phhhew

We need to ditch this kicking on the 3rd having sweet FA possession

We are rubbish with the ball. It's mainly one up boring rugby with odd inside ball. We have to kick as we can't get out of our own half. Doesn't help when mose stood 10 yards back watching Dawson and Swifty trying to do the hard yards. I think he did 1 hit up in the time he was on. After playing well for 4/5 weeks he's back to his lazy self as he was against leeds last week.

Desperately missing Wilkin

The ref has been shocking

Dawson

That's a disgraceful decision.

Happens in France far too often.

WTF!!! How was that not a try?

High shot on swift missed

Matty Dawson is a horrendous player. Championship standard, I'd genuinely rather have Fleming in there.

Proper crap that. We need Wilkin back asap.Walsh and burns are not firing at all

We just not good enough mate. Our discipline is awful. We must be the most penilised team in super league. Constant offsides and some of those are ridiculously offside.

Our attack it's totally woeful in tight games. We can't create anything and even with the extra man. We didn't look like making a break all day.

The defence has been woeful all year so no need to comment on that.

I beleive this much of our problems are down to coaching. We can't seem to rectify any of our problems. I'm not bagging KC as I expected us to struggle on the coaching side of things as this is his first time coaching and no expernince at all.


I had us a shoe in for top four but I've serious doubts now. We are toothless in attack and poor in defence and that's hard to put right. This so called best pack in super league is struggling big time. If they pin is down in own 20m we struggle to make meters to get out.

Yeah that was rather poor.

Irrational Observations:

1) Nice to watch a game without being tortured by the aural evil of Hemmings and Stevo. Not one "Good kick, now what is the chase like?", "He knows it", "Get the message out", "Utilise the dummy runner" or "Setting up a grandstand finish" (ruined our drinking game - everybody is still sober here). However it still sounded like commentary from the home town local radio - dead biased.

2) I don't keep up to date with all the rule changes but why do Saints only get 3 tackles before they have to kick but the opposition get a minimum of 12 after the obligatory penalty? Really, I get kicking early in wet conditions but every team drops their full back early against us now so what is the point?

3) Seriously, what is it with our discipline? What is the point of putting in 3 good tackles in the oppositions own half because the penalty with certainly come on the fourth or the fifth. So frustrating.

4) Why are the opposition guaranteed two tries from kicks or knock ons when we are about to go over for our own try?

5) Not sure why Saints have lost any games lately - just suicidal rugby.

Well, I said on these very boards that I didn't want Cunningham as our coach and I've become more convinced of this view as the season has progressed. We play exactly the same way every week no matter who the opposition or what the conditions and our execution of even that boring, repetitive game plan is so poor it's just unbelievable. A great player does not automatically make a great coach or even a half decent one and having 'passion for the club' and 'knowing the systems' isn't anywhere near enough to make a half decent coach either. We were better than this last year with Brown in charge and I was no big fan of Brown.