The point I'm making is that, rather than make knee jerk reactions following last night's game, let's see how we stand after a run of games, with some potentially tricky ones there, before we can assess whether there has been an improvement in performance, consistency, attitude, fitness etc from the close season.

Let's face it, given the move from top 6 to top 8, it would have to be a real shock not to make the play offs. Therefore, we have to look at different indicators, and assessing where we stand after the first run of games is as good as any. If we do have a bad first half to the season, we may well not make the 8, so it does count for something.

You were 14-0 up after 50 minutes! How many teams were 14 points ahead of Saints last year. Mentally you were poor, after Saints pulled a try back, you didn't pick yourselves up again and when Saints got their second, there was only going to be one winner.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but hasn't Mike Setphenson played for GB in a World Cup winning team and coached a side to the Championship as well as playing with distinction in Australia. Stevo's bufoonary and fake-contraversialism is just an act. Who would you suggest replaces him, an ex-player who knows the game, like Johnathan Davies?

I'd go as far to say they are as damaging as Eddie Waring.