Exactly. We got smashed in the pack tonight, but that happens at times when teams get a head of steam. Our backs put so much pressure on the forwards.

before tonight i thought our pack was our strength but then i look at wilkin flannery and faasavalu and i think i need

'Happier'

sadly as a great servant cunnigham has been to the club ...all he does now is pass the ball and does 2 runs per match which i'm afraid is just not good enough.

agree with that but could you tell me last time pryce or faasavalu did anythink

boy thats a hard question

One game at the start of a long season in poor conditions is not an acid test.

Also about cunningham being past it, i seem to remember people on these boards saying long was past it about same time last season, yes Keiron may do very little on the ball personally, but saints are a visibly lifted team when hes on the pitch conducting and leading. Its something saints may be short of, leadership not big forwards and fast backs.

Amen to the Pryce comments though, he really needs to grip his career and start performing.

Faasavalu came on and did a good run and that was it, he's poorer than (not so) fat Feka. I hope that he and Pryce dont let the RU see their videos of tonight for their sakes or they may have to stay with us

I agree! Ive been saying the same thing for last 2yrs about our squad recruitment.

IMO this is the worst squad i've seen in my time of watching saints. We are slow,boring and lack any idea in attack. Im not a coach but its pretty obvious we are in urgent need of a ball playing halfback as eastmond and pryce aint going to work and IMO pryce for whatever reason isnt good enough anymore.

On the subject of potter, ive stuck up for him all last year but starting to lose faith in him now. We have no plan A never mind plan B! Its boring one man rugby as it was for most of last year.

was quite surprised how poor Saints were last night, yes there are some good signs for us (FC) and Fitz had a stormer, but whats gone on at Saints, the "elder statesmen" have been allowed (or encouraged) to move on and haven't been replaced, you brought Fozzard back from KR and he was average.

I don't want to play Wakefield/Huddersfield in semi-finals/finals, we want the fans of Saints with us, and the best, most skillfull side, winning.

Flannery will always work hard and give 100% but he's just not good enough in a pack like we have. The backrow IMO is very very poor.

Flannery, wilkin, ashurst, dixon, clough and tony p are the backrows but none are good enough. Tony p is a good player but IMO will never make a 2nd row or loose as long as he lives.

All the backrow named above all work hard but we get nothing from them in attack.

To be fair, Puletua is a prop, and a good prop at that. Potter is using him in the wrong way, which compounds our need for a quality backrowe to compliment Flannery's workrate.