Is that really a yellow card...?

what i have seen of Saints so far i would be shocked to see them make the playoffs, top 8 could be tough to achieve if Roby is missing for a fair few of the games.

No it shouldn't have been a yellow.

As an exercise in preventing an embarrassing blowout scoreline, it ought to be a success.

Yeah fair enough IMO. One of those that if the ref did nothing then people would cry foul for a card. Definatley not a red but a yellow was spot on.

Skybet were offering a combined handicap of 26 points for all three of the uk teams in the world club series.
They've covered it already in just the first match

who mentioned Huddersfield?
whoever represents us, for casual fans to see a big name club like St Helens get embarrassed every year isn't good for the game, but if it was a club other than the favourites it wouldn't be as bad.

Yeah no one mentioned Hudds.....but you're a well know Hudds supporter on this site and your team was the team to miss out.....hardly takes Einstien to work what you were digging at.

I don't think Wilkin was particularly at fault for that try. They were short on that side because of a late retreat by a Saints tackler and possibly a numbering fault by Owens, Wilkin isn't that quick so he shouldn't be left in that much space by his inside defenders.

The yellow card was fine in my opinion. Good use of the sin bin by Thaler.

Personally I think Saints mentality was the major issue. They looked like many British teams do v Aussie teams. They looked as if they were trying to score every set of 6 instead of playing the game and grinding the opposition down.

Saints made far too many errors, didn't kick well enough and didn't control their own play anything like well enough to beat a top Aussie side. Things like Walsh kicking the ball away when there's no free play sort of typifies their mentality for me, not composed enough.

I'm also questioning whether Keiran Cunningham was watching the same game as I was. If he thought they scored loads of tries against the run of play he's kidding himself.

Looks like tackling is going to be scrutinised every week now thanks to Powells dummy spit and the RFLs mind boggling ban of the Hull KR hooker. Towards the end of the game the Roosters no 7 tackled the saints player Vea around the legs - Rod Studd and Stuart Cummins immediately said "horrendous...such a controversial tackle" NO IT FLIPPING WELL ISNT!!! Sadly this looks like it will be the "trend" Sky have this year.

We missed out, exactly, no qualms over that, but surely seeing one of our flagship clubs get spanked every year is not good for the series?

would it not be better to rotate the clubs getting spanked

On the flip side, i was very impressed with the new look Roosters team. Show a depth of talent that isn't seen over here. Think they will do alright this year. I'll be considering a few of that lot for my fantasy team

That's what a £3.3M salary cap will buy you.