If it was an option I'd cash in on Eastmond now. He should have been dominating and demanding but he sat back far too often.

I was disappointed with your 3rd seeing as it wasnt a goal line drop out

To be fair to him it was his first proper game in a fair while.

Wasn't that decision correct because the ball wasn't on the floor?

I have openly criticised Francis Meli in the past but I though he also played well today, bar the mix up with Wellens for Wigan's second try. I thought Roby, Puletua, Soliola and Meli were our stand out players today. Wilkin didn't do too bad either.

Wigan's defence in the first half was amazing but they struggled to keep it up once fatigue starting kicking in. Simmons simply has to address the lack of width in our defence, we were overlapped on countless occasions with ease.

I think the 'invincible' Wigan looked very vulnerable today and quite easily beatable. They have a few players to come back but then so do we; Pryce, Flannery and Perry. All in all I think if we was more clinical and our defence can be sured up a little more there is no reason why we shouldn't of won that game by 10+ points. Wigan looked dangerous with their chances in the first half whereas we looked flat. Some attacking flair (which Pryce can bring) will see us scoring plenty.

Also after all the hype, Jeff Lima did absolutely nothing.

saddened - with regards to wellens being a total liabilty, you must be watching a different game to me, pace or not he has the brains to be in the right position at the right time and beat the first defender. his defence is solid and rarely misses a tackle if ever. i just hope i have miss read sacrasm, if not re watch the game please

Wigan played well and we were crap for the majority of the game and the Pies still couldn't beat us. Even with having a commanding lead at one point.

I don't think we were that crap tbh. In the first half for the majority of it we was all over them, the part of our game that was crap was finishing. Wigan's goal line defence was fantastic but also we made some stupid errors and poor passes. I would like to see some territory stats for the game. The only reason Wigan took a 16-0 lead was because they could finish and we couldn't.

I love Wello don't get me wrong. But look where Saints take the first tackle most times tonight. Look where Wigan do. Saints pack made more metres (I'd guess) than they did but they always ended up 20m further down field. That's because Wello doesn't get to kicks on the full and doesn't return them that far, despite often beating a man.

I would also love to know why Meli and Gardner rush to the middle whenever there is a high ball? They are often left hopelessly out of position. If they had confidence in Wello why would they do that?

His tackling is still good, the one to hold the Goon up over the line was quality. But I still feel we'd be far better off with a pacy player at fullback.

Well seeing as Wello went off injured, presuming he isnt fit for next week who would you like there? Lomax or Foster?
Personally i'd go with Lomax as I think he has more ball skill than Foster add maybe has a yard of pace on him too. But Foster's goalkicking could come into the decision, although he doesnt seem to be able to kick them off the touchline.

i understand your reasons for your opinion and fair enough and heres to a good discussion!!!

I feel it reflects badly on wellens with regards taking kicks on the full because and especially tonight our kicking game was awful, wheeler im afraid didnt do it at 6, and as I have said over the last couple of years, granted not on here eastmond is not and never will be the answer.

I beleive that our back 3 make as many metres as each other there or there abouts so this shooting into the middle and passing to each other, dropping each other off all the time is pointless in my opinion

For me I think that draw is just papering over the cracks for you, you only got good territoy from penaltys and yet again you can only score trys from 10m out.

You wont miss Cunningham with Roby though, he is an outstanding talent.

Eastmond played like a man who's heart and head are elsewhere. I'd be very surprised if he stays.

Agreed, judging on tonight's performance though, we may be better off cashing in and buying a good replacement.

the other thing to take into consideration, our coach wasnt around for most of the week. That is likely to have caused an element of disruption to the preparation for the game.

FWIW I am delighted with a draw. A bit more composure in the first half and we would have won it. With a fully fit Pryce and Eastmond, it would have been an emphatic victory.