I enjoy your match thread. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, appreciated.

Shame you didn't get a season ticket. Works out at £18 per month for the East Stand. Recently I've effectively been paying £6 per game! A steal.

Anyway, I think Tom Armstrong will do just fine with some time spent training with the team. I don't know who on earth Royce is going to slot in at fullback for our trip to Hull but I thought Armstrong put in a great stint there given it's not his usual position and he was called on at short notice. Good on him. I hope he gets a chance to have some serious game time with Saints now.

Didn't have the lump sum available for a season ticket.

I have a feeling it may be Foster at full back with Armstrong slotting in on the wing, that is if Makinson doesn't recover from his dead leg.

I didn't either. I pay monthly. Like I said, it's worked out a steal.


Maybe. I'm hoping Makinson recovers from his deadleg. He's the most likely to recover from the three who went down today anyway. Scott Moore described his ankle injury: 'felt like it was in a million pieces', which sounds very bad indeed! We could do with Jamie resting his legs between efforts as he will be our only goal kicker next Monday, won't he?

I have to agree with this to an extent. His first try was a great piece of play the second he did well to play to the whistle. Caught everything and returned the ball well.

On the other hand he did some very strange things. His out the back pass that went straight into touch was bizzare. Given that he has had limited chances in the first team I can understand if the reason for this was he was trying to hard.

I have always thought he would make a good full back. If Royce can coach the crazy plays out of him then hopefully he can get a good run in the team.

How did you do that?

The out the back pass was a cracking piece of skill that would have resulted in a try had it gone to Foster rather than the touchline. Would you rather he wasn't trying that kind of thing in the first place? I think that's a dangerous precedent to set. Personally I'll never bag a player for trying something close to the opposition line.

The offer to do that was open to everyone who wanted a season ticket at the end of last season. I've just got a one year one. I'm a newbie season ticket holder.


Hopefully they are fast healers!


I can't see Kyle being over his chest infection by next Monday as they can drag on for weeks. But, you never know! One day, we may have players returning en masse instead of limping off en masse!

Thats way over the top!!! The guy hasnt played with us all season, he's scored 2 tries and generally played very well. Some people just arent satisfied.

Well bloody hell I never knew that, I've had a season ticket for about 6 years previous. Shows that when Saints send stupid leaflets in the post that I should probably read them.



Well in about 5 or 6 weeks we should see a few back so I'll look forward to that day.

Agreed, i was right near that play and Jamie over ran it slightly IMO.

I have no problem with trying something out but he made some bad choices during the match as to when to try these things.

For example his long pass to Foster cutting out Meli. A lovely long pass.
Result
Foster is pushed into touch.

Ashurst (with 15 seconds left) is in the same position. Takes two steps and passes it to Meli.
Result
Meli steps round two players and wins the match.

Which pass was the most skillful: Armstrongs

Which pass was the correct one to do: Ashursts

He does. But he is an inexperienced player, not having had much game time with Saints since being promoted to first team and he has been playing with Leigh this season. The way he will learn how to make good judgements in the heat of the moment under pressure is partly by making mistakes.

I know it's a different league and different opposition, but his defence and reading of the game when he's played for Leigh has been excellent. He might not be ready for SL just yet, but he's not too far off IMO