Luke Walsh by plenty!

Saints were very impressive tonight, and they still have Masoe to come into the team once he's over his injury!

Still a couple of odd decisions by Nathan Brown though. Why is Wellens still being picked? Seems like a waste of a bench spot imo. It makes more sense to me to have a replacement for Roby on the bench so that he isn't doing the full 80. I know he's not ideal, but Hohaia seems like the most logical person to fill that role.

Wire were out-enthused, and seemed to be missing some leadership.

myler's defence is very poor, and didn't saints know it

perhaps more worrying for warrington was the ease with which their forwards were outplayed

So Wigan move off the bottom of the table and Warrington replace them.

and morley
and carvell
and cooper
and .........................

saints look class though, both grand finalists walloped at home and in the relegation places

Going Down! Going Down! Going Down!

Great to have P&R back

So Wigan move off the bottom of the table and Warrington replace them.

Shocking from us, lightweight forwards, no one knowing each others role, Mike Monaghan is not a loving 7, Cull and Lowes found that out the hard way.
Asotasi off tonight looks a lazy and offers little penetration.
Have another x-ray Lee just to make sure.

Oh and Bentham was easily their man of the match, we were on the ropes but he played his part in pinning us back.

Soliola, Wilkin, & Turner will all be let off though using the Bowen defence.

where any of these actually put on report?

Nope. I think, I wouldn't complain if the Soliola hit was given a game (only complaint would be the Bowen defence) Wilkin and turner were nothing more than grabs IMO

Edit: also wire won the penalty count (was 6 - 3 10 minutes to go I think) so it's hardly benthams fault - giving us back the ball every time you made a break was more so!

I think Soliola was. His was a bad impact, but wasn't aimed that high and deflected up. Turner's wasn't as bad and was instinctive as he was stepped rather than malicious or dangerous. Wilkin's wasn't even a penalty, he grabbed the shirt around the collar bone, it was Myler's (?) speed that made it look spectacular.

A good game for the Saints fan. Not sure about the neutral viewer. But it was Saints at Warrington, so what did people expect??

It's just good to see a game of rugby again. Seeing debutants is always interesting aswell

Was a decent game I thought, especially for the first of the season. Wire started really well, moving the ball brilliantly. Partly Saints stepped it up but also partly Wire stopped moving the ball as much.
A couple of soft tries conceded from Wires point of view.
Saints forwards were good but I felt it was more Wires mistakes with the ball that really benefitted Saints. Admittedly that partly came from Saints good defence, but after the first 15 mins Warringtons attack was pretty poor. Just looked slow and uncertain compared to the start of the game.
I thought the likes of Westwood and Monaghan were over-playing and trying to miracle a play instead of just taking the tackle and going again.
Thought both Wheeler and Walsh looked good for Saints and the likes of Turner really benefitted from the halves playing well.