Wigan had three young props, Prescott, Hargreaves and O'Carroll. At the time they made the correct decision to let Hargreaves go, but then O'Carroll got that injury that has kept him out of the game for over twelve months.
I guess that's sport for you.

While we didn't get the calls tonight, and one or two calls were dodgy to say the least, they weren't the reason we lost IMO. We came with a much, much better attitude than we had against Wigan. However, our defence was poor again, we lost our composure again (meaning brainfarts) and we dropped too much ball again.

Having said all that, I was anticipating a loss and so I am not feeling the shock of last week. I thought it was quite sad that we lost tonight actually when clearly we did actually have the ability to win. Had those things that I just listed not been a part of our game.

We aren't ready to beat the teams above us. Maybe this season we won't be. Or maybe we will. Still nine games to go to find out, I guess.

just like to say that you as fans were great today stayed to the end even after the drop goal by briers. well done. a lot of teams fans would have started to walk (not mentioning any names) but not you, great support for your team.

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We where decent, but not great. No one should win after giving an 18 - 0 head start. Other than 10 mins we where good. But that's the same as saying apart from losing we would have won.

Dodgy calls? Dreaming love. Silverwood piggy backed you up the field most of the time. Granted, you made use of the field position brilliantly against the leagues best defence. But don't make out you had a rough day from the ref.

Er, I didn't. I was saying that it wasn't the ref who was the problem, as you would know if you read the first sentence of my post.

I see you are using the penalty count 1 in your favour to say we got the calls from the ref again.


Are you just ignoring the penalties you got which gave you field position to score????

Don't forget back then you were too busy breaking the salary cap anyway.

I really didn't think it was obstruction, for me it was a fair try, the unfortunate thing is the amount that get disallowed wrongly over the season.

Lomax at Bradford being a recent case.

It's difficult to say if it is or isnt I suppose (being as the rules seem to change every year) but it seems funny that whenever we get Ian Smith he 'interprets' them in whatever way most disadvantages Saints.

In my simple view of 'obstruction' though the question is simple, was Meli obstructed from making a challenge and in my view he was.

Id like to see Saints make the 8th though to be honest. Reckon they'd offer more than what, say, Salford would offer.

Having just watched the match back, I would agree with you. But it was Smith as VR and there was no way he was going to give us anything. He's probably still seeing Daniel Anderson in his dreams.