Looking at the stats, Saints actually made 12 breaks to our 9. Fortunately we had the skill and ruthlessness to finish our breaks off, but 12 breaks wasn't that strong from us.

That said, Saints pretty much had to throw the ball around to get back into the game and they became dangerous as teams often do when they have to play like this. Conditions were perfect for attacking Rugby too.
We should also remember that whilst our structures are looking better, we still have new partnerships all over the park. Evans and Atkins, Monaghan and Ormsby, Bridge and Ratchford, plus a few of the forwards are still finding their feet.

With the ball very good, without it, more work to do, but as JB says, we should certainly enjoy an 8 tries to 4 victory, which could have been much more comfortable had Bridge had his kicking boots on. I suspect their heads would have dropped sooner had we got the extra 8 points from kicks and we could have gone on to score even more.

If Westwood was 5 years younger the NRL clubs would be throwing money at him. Alas, the trend for signing British forwards came a bit late for him.

I think Trent has been class from the off regardless of what other players do or don't do! Shows how far we have come to be umming and aahing over waterhouse when in the not too distant past we were chair lifting the abysmal Simon gillies off the wilderspool turf!

I'm going to have nightmares now. Thank you very much.

Goodness gracious, conjuring mental images like that at this hour should be brought to the mods attention.

He was a looker, wasn't he, old Simon? He made Don Duffy look like George Clooney.

Not that I'm so inclined, but Waterhouse is far better looking than any forward who has plied his career in the top-flight for a decade has any right to be. Most modern forwards resemble some of the "ladies" who frequent the Pound Bakery, but with less body art.

That last paragraph is just brilliant.