I remember everyone saying that about a newly-arrived Matt King..... It took him a while to settle to life in England but look what happened there.

There's lots of panic and melodrama since last night. It's the first game of the season with some big personnel losses and new players coming in, not to mention the injuries we've started the season with. I think some people just need to calm down a bit.

Yes, we lost 5 on the bounce. And you're right, it is an unwanted record.

However, we still have 4 wins in our 9 Grand Finals for a win rate of just over 44%

Which is FAR superior to Wire's 0% win rate in Grand Finals.

I think that's actually a good point. We've had a lot of 'new' fans since winning a trophy or two. I often hear them moaning in the South Stand the minute we're not tonking a team by a few tries every game. I often wonder to myself if they were watching Warrington 10 years ago. I doubt it. The fact is, even on our bad days recently it's still lightyears better than the dark days way back when. Remember almost getting relegated? Sadly we're going to find some fans will bemoan anything other than a huge win every game and finals left, right and . If we don't continually achieve that the newer fans will probably start dropping away.

Some very funny comments here. I thought that someone would say 'Chris meet Stefan. Stefan meet Chris' under the bomb. But I don't blame Chris for coming in from the wing when the opposing centre has left the player in front of him grasping thin air. Also House got through a h3ll of a lot of work. No wonder he looked shattered. 40 odd tackles. People also forget that MM was brought in as a half back. Just observations on the comments.... We were still total cr9p and looked totally disorganised. I honestly don't think I've ever been as angry about a wire performance.

Some very funny comments here. I thought that someone would say 'Chris meet Stefan. Stefan meet Chris' under the bomb. But I don't blame Chris for coming in from the wing when the opposing centre has left the player in front of him grasping thin air. Also House got through a h3ll of a lot of work. No wonder he looked shattered. 40 odd tackles. People also forget that MM was brought in as a half back. Just observations on the comments.... We were still total cr9p and looked totally disorganised. I honestly don't think I've ever been as angry about a wire performance.

Just one point on M. Monaghan. Yes, he came here as a half-back and probably thought he could make it as a half-back in the "weaker" English comp, having been moved to hooker to accomodate Matt Orford @ Manly.

Despite the obvious lack of flair in the position Cullen persisted and paid for his stubbornness with his job.

Monaghan was moved to hooker and became the finest hooker in the English comp throughout that period. His pace from acting half and distribution were a key factor in our success; sadly, the 2014 model looks to have the same issues as the 2013 - the heart is willing but the body is gone and he now a passenger.

Whatever the pros and cons of using Monaghan in preference for say, Dwyer, at hooker he will never be the answer at half-back, because even when he was fully-fit, fresh and at the peak of his powers he never was.

Well, to be honest, I know a lot of Saints fans and they are all sound people and are very knowledgeable about the sport and Saints, one guy in particular.

However the Saints fans that seem to always fester on this board and bring nothing to the table by way of a debate are just boring!

=#FF8000[iMonaghan was moved to hooker and became the finest hooker in the English comp throughout that period.[/i


And you believe that???????? pmsl you will be saying next this is your year.

Saints fans, how's your trophy room

Like their roof...tinless

Trophy room? Yeah, the SL and World Club Challenge trophies have been in ours during our history.


Have they been in yours?




Sadly for your mob, RL didn't begin in 2009.