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Russell
Penny
Currie
Atkins
Lineham
Gidley
Ratchford
Hill
Clark
Sims
Westwood
Hughes
Westerman

Evans
King
Jullien
Philbin

Find it strange to include Evans on the bench. If he wasn't fit enough to start then they might as well have left him out and gone with Patton. After having to move around our backs when two of them went off last week you'd think we'd have took a lesson from that to provide cover for 6/7. If Ratchford or Gidley go down then we'd have to switch Currie to the halves and put in an unfit Evans.

I'd have gone with Ratchford at centre and Patton in the halves. Currie stayed put at second row. Then you have cover for Patton with both Currie and Ratch, if Ratch went down Currie could switch to centre and have Westerman off the bench to go in his place...

just did a little dance on my own to that atkins try.. first tackle, gidley doing the talking... straight into a training ground move.

lovely stuff

Will have to watch that Currie try back on TV not sure how he got over!!

They are really exposing Russell and Lineham under the high ball,got away with a couple but hope it doesn't cost us

Kev penny having a stormer... if i was saints, i would kick everything at Lineham.. he is struggling tonight.

We have won pretty much every collision, we are making loads of yards... im not sure how we are only winning by 2 points.. we went to sleep and saints scored 2 easy tries.

Were playing crap

this is not a good display.... had to happen sooner or later.

we look very flat and short of ideas.

good news is we are only 4 points behind and could still win it

How many?

Losing at home to the worst Saints side in history. What was it you said? LOvely stuff

Regards

King James

its comedy this.. kick a ball in behind us and were absolutely clueless.

saints have won this and they haven't even played well.

Absolute horror show tonight. Not a single positive to take from it. Errors all over the shop and a couple of key players have stunk the place out and cost us tries.

Don't think the bench helped at all tonight.

well done on being able to read.

Dont need to play particulary well when you are up against dross

Regards

King James

Absolute crap, that was a crap saints team

Disappointed with display tonight. My biggest gripe is why wasn't ratchford kicking for the confers ions. Or Gidley , I know he's carry a strain but what the difference in kicking in play ????

It still is and will be a crap saints team but they're kicking was superb and our defence was dreadful. A fully fit Gidley and we win that game because of goal kicking.

Despite my last post at least we showed a bit of fight at the end but too little too late.

Think Smith got the bench wrong tonight and the lack of props on the bench meant we didn't get a boost off the bench going forward or in defence.

Lineham should be given a rest after that performance. Russell was poor too but both can be excused somewhat as there were some good kicks put in under no pressure (when did we stop charging kicks down...).