Todays game has only proven 1 thing. Saints will be up there at the end of the season. no doubts about it. Brilliant performance by the boys. They're really working their socks off for each other this year.

6 squad members injured plus 2 from the match inside the first 10 minutes. We did very well to compete.

Soliola
Gidley
Flannery
Wilkin
Ashurst
Lomax
Gardner
Wellens

Our backs have been against the wall all season...

Vs Hull = 2 backs taken off inside the first half
Vs Wakefield = Gidley taken off then his replacement Ashurst taken off in the first half.
Vs Hull KR = 2 backs taken off inside the first half.

Nobody in Super League could cope with that imo. The one worrying thing is that these injuries are too frequant. Chris Dean also is not good enough for centre imo. He might gradually make a good second row but no way is he a SL standard centre.

Welldone Saints.

Indeed.
Smith also went through a 'go on Saints have another go' period earlier in the second half which put you back in front.
Strange that it didnt get mentioned though.

Your point ? Are really THAT stupid to compare your injury situation with Saints? im presuming you put Wesbster in at Stand off to make up the loss ? A guy who played the first 3 games for you at Stand off!

Like he did for you today, right on our line after your lad had knocked on trying to score. Swings and roundabouts.

You presume wrongly. Scott Murrell returned at stand off with Ben Fisher playing 60 continuous minutes at hooker.
Each side showed some good and not so good signs but both will finish in the top four.

both?? ha ha,saints will!

I think I should point out that over the last ten years or so we have been pretty fortunate with injuries. Yes, there have been some real sickeners (Martyn's knees, Scully's ... well ... everything etc.), but we've managed to avoid the kind of total season-long squad decimation that, say, Hull has suffered in recent years.

It would be pretty bad luck if the season we're banking on youth we get clobbered. But we've had it coming for a bit.

[fingers crossed]

No way.

I wouldent say we've always sufferd injuries but to say we've had it coming is a massive overstatement imo. Paul Sculthorpe, Keiron Cunningham, Tommy Martyn, Sean Long, Paul Newlove etc... have all sufferd from very bad injuries. 2005 injuries ended our season.

Read the post again.

Who said i was comparing our injuries to yours? Are you really that stupid you cannot read? All i was saying is that we to had to reshuffle our team at half time,and we played the second half without our first or second choice stand off.

You cant include a player who is out of favour. Paul Cooke was not injured.

why???? we didn`t play with our regular stand off or our reserve,for what ever reasons.I am not saying our injuries are worse than yours,god knows i think we`ve got that point,all i was saying is that we had to reshuffle our team when we didn`t have a player in that position on the bench.