Saints without Taia, Percival, Barba and (everyone keeps forgetting) Walmsley.

That’s some serious talent not on the pitch. Reflected in a stilted attack, I think. But the young replacements are doing a good solid job in defence thus far.

Wigan had 7 missing and lost by 8.
Hull had 8 missing and lost by 16.

The difference is your 7 are all average. Hulls missing players weren’t. Plus we didn’t rest our best players against hull because we knew it would be a tough game unlike Wigan away

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King James

It was a brilliant defensive performance, it was also a very good performance in terms of effort and drive in attack. What we really lacked was brain smarts close to the tryline.

We lacked creativity, that could open up a very good wigan defense. Whilst wigan were stilted in attack they have a defensive line that is well drilled and they give there all and will not give up a lost cause like some teams.

They have a defense that is at least 50 better than their nearest competitor. Against a standard side those breaks by saints would have been tries.

It was a good game with tight defenses and whilst we were comfortable, it showed were without our top players we would have may be had a tighter league.

She's had a bad few days