Quote ="Saint Rabban"Jake Spedding has played in all the u19 games this season and scored 3 tries. Played in 1 reserve game and scored a try. Doing well by all accounts and must be considered ahead of Wellington and Grace. Levy Nzongou as also played in all u19 games and 1 reserve fixture, so yes he is still with Saints.'" Which is ironic as KC said a few interviews ago Wellington is next in line? Maybe he meant next next in line! Can anyone explain Leeds interest in Spedding? viewtopic.php?f=17&t=593955

Quote ="Saint Rabban"Jake Spedding has played in all the u19 games this season and scored 3 tries. Played in 1 reserve game and scored a try. Doing well by all accounts and must be considered ahead of Wellington and Grace. Levy Nzongou as also played in all u19 games and 1 reserve fixture, so yes he is still with Saints.'" Which is ironic as KC said a few interviews ago Wellington is next in line? Maybe he meant next next in line! Can anyone explain Leeds interest in Spedding? viewtopic.php?f=17&t=593955

Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"Which is ironic as KC said a few interviews ago Wellington is next in line? Maybe he meant next next in line! Can anyone explain Leeds interest in Spedding? i.rlfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=593955'" I think he was born in Leeds and is a Leeds United fan, maybe Rhinos. That may have something to do with it.

Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"Which is ironic as KC said a few interviews ago Wellington is next in line? Maybe he meant next next in line! Can anyone explain Leeds interest in Spedding? i.rlfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=593955'" I think he was born in Leeds and is a Leeds United fan, maybe Rhinos. That may have something to do with it.

Didn't they have a 'thing' on their forum a few years back featuring a fictional player called Spedding?

I just hope he's not another midget of the variety we keep producing from our youth sides, especially in the backs. Eastwood, Lomax, Swift, Wheeler, Makinson, Percival - all very small men by professional rugby standards.

If you look at the top threequarters, apart from the occasional freak like Jason Robinson, you find 6-footers with athletic builds. Our best threequarters of the recent past were the same: Hunte, Sullivan, Albert, Newlove, Lyons, Iro, Gidley etc.

I don't think the diminutive size of the backs we keep producing is unconnected to their dreadful injury records.

Wigan seem to have a production line of lads who are 2-3 inches taller than our equivalents. Is it a genetic St Helens thing? Do they really eat more pies in their formative years?

Hopefully Spedding will be a decent-sized athlete.

How could you ever dis the undoubted talents of Richie Spedding?
He was the best junior player of his generation and without his career ending injury would have been in the same bracket as Paul Sculthorpe and he would have probably been lured to the NRL

Shame on you Saddened for bringing great shame on the Spedding name

Hopefully we can compete tonight

Naaah, not a chance. We'll get hammered.

You've got a very talented side with great threequarters, playing with lots of confidence, versus a side with limited talent, the worst threequarters in the league, and with no confidence at all.

Wire by 20, I'd guess.

Not doing to bad so far to be fair. Soft try just before the break though

That try was certain from the second Penny caught the ball 10 metres from his line with 60 seconds to go. We are a psychologically soft team.

The forwards have had a dig, to be fair, with Walmsley and Amor having their best games this season. But our threequarters are so much worse than Wire that if the forwards tire and Wire get enough space to move the ball wide, we're screwed.

I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but at this stage a Wire win by 3 scores still seems most likely.

Same as last week can't shut the game down at the end of the period.

On the plus side, it's the best performance I've seen from us this year after 46 minutes.

If we could get 8+ points ahead, anything could happen.

See how good KC has been with Theo. It's the holding him back and not picking him all year that's made him the player he is tonight

I'll tell you what, Fages looks very good in this.

It's all KC doing

Wire are a one man team

2 scores ahead. 10 minutes to go. This is now a test of our brains, not our bodies. How strong are we mentally?

Win or lose, where has this performance been all year?

Yes get in. Farges played well

Man of the match, combined well with Walsh. Front row was good as well. We looked 12 points better than wire.

We were incredibly fragile at the end there. But hopefully that will build a litle confidence in Saints now.

Count the bodies missing.

And some interesting substituting. LMS did a heck of a stint tonight and played the full game.

Ashworth and Knowles looked good, I hope they get another game next week

I can't knock anyone tonight. Going to Warrington with 8 lads out and wining is top result.

Yes, liked Ashworth in particular.

Had a £1 on Saints to win by a point. 65/1 I s**t you not. Absolutely gutted they didn't go for that conversion. Never known that to happen.