I think tonight proved he's not worth a contract. Absolutely no impact on the game at all. Flapped at the three aerial challenges he was involved in tonight.

There must be a kid or two in the academy who could do as well, even if it's a centre being blooded.

I thought we should keep one of the old heads in the three quarters on for another year or two. With Meli retiring it makes sense to ease the new kids in.

Saying that, I would have liked to have seen Broughton in Saints colours, but this Gardner deal i think pretty much confirms that Broughton has signed for Huddersfield.

Nothing against Ade, but tonight he ran hard and with the right attitude anyone can offer that. He did not really get us on the front foot and his efforts under high balls is becoming more predictable. If it's in the air it's going to bounce.

Ade was one of the poor performers tonight. Makinson, on the othe hand, looked very assured back on the wing. (apart from his opening mistake)

He was playing on the left wing too, which I don't remember him doing previously although he may have. He was jonny on the spot on a few occasions so his stint at fullback may have rounded his game somewhat although he always, always plays up in the big games, and last night was definitely a big game!

So far as Gardner is concerned, nothing he did last night changed my mind about him. Although we know he will be getting a new contract - he'll probably still be playing on the wing when he's 40 - we could do better, I'm sure. And we are going to have the situation where our centre is faster than his winger, which can't be a good thing. Whereas the first try scored by Makinson shows just what can be done with pace and skill on the edges, and what a wonderful try that was to witness.

Does the fact that Gardner's getting a new deal say we're not getting Broughton?

Why would we want a quick winger when we can re-sign a duffer who runs the ball in hard off his own try line but very rarely gets near the opposition line?

Because he tries really really hard and he's been with us years. Thats all it takes to get a new deal at Saints, ability, speed and age are not factors we seem to bother with hence I also expect us to sign up good old Wello for another year or 5

Maybe, just maybe, Broughton turned us down? But lets not let the real world get in the way of your constant downer on everything the club do...

Gardner (and Meli) are both better than Broughton.

I'm not sure you can blame a winger for us not getting near the opposition line.

How often have we seen Ade put through a gap or given a run with a bit of space to go at lately? If he was outside Manu and Percy I think we'd have seen far more attacking from him.

He didn't look good under that spiral bomb on Monday but then neither do lots of highly rated players including Billy Slater a lot of the time (although he does one or two other things quite well), and why should the right winger be having to cover a kick that's coming down near the posts anyway? If anything that suggests he's reading the game quite well and trying to cover for teammates who are out of position.

I'm not suggesting he's a great winger (or comparing him to Slater) by the way, just think he gets some unfair stick on here.

There are certain individuals on here who will have a go at certain players regardless. Even when they play well credit is not given. The trick is to treat those comments accordingly and ignore them.