I said to my misses before the game that whenever anyone plays Saints at Saints they have to play so well to make it impossible for the ref to rob them because if they can they will, tonight proved my point entirely!

Saints are slowly bringing players in who aren't as good as the player in that position before. But if they win next week then Hohaia will be the worlds greatest player ever to grace the earth. He's a very average player and only plays well in the less important games.

I will come back to you with a counter-argument, probably, maybe, possibly.

Don't be a ***...




Only the most clueless numpty in the world would suggest that Hohaia is anything other than a misfit in a team in which he has no position to play in and I'll think you'll struggle to find anyone on the Saints' board who thinks otherwise so I struggle to see where the point is coming from. He was a panic-signing caused by a domestic league with no alternative talent available, and an NRL with no one any better and affordable on the market. And we're stuck with him for another 3 years...

He must have had it in his hands for a few hundredths of a second, whilst I'm sure Joel also had his hands in there. I'm not sure what the rule is with regards to possession of the ball, but Meli had lost it before he'd landed and he never seemed to have much with regards to control. I've seen players catch then drop the ball in those situations and the ref has played on. Another one of those grey areas that we as fans will never get unless the Wigan fans lend us the rule book.

I think they said his feet touched the turf again whilst he was still in 'possession', making it a catch in the in-goal. It was a tough call but I think 'try' and 'no try' could have been justified, we just got unlucky. I'm still not convinced that McCarthy even made contact with the ball on the last disallowed try, but I only saw that one reply; great thinking by McCarthy, either way.

I can only echo most of what has been said here: solid performances all round, with a few stand outs. It pains me to say this, but I think Atkins was a little off his recent form tonight.

I think Hohia, Wilkin and especially Perry got away with much more than they should have. That said, our penis were deserved and a few dubious things by us were missed. Nothing game-changing from either side, thigh, I don't think.

spot the freudian slip in that post

Another victory for predictive text entry via a so-called 'smart phone'...

Ahem: *penalties...

(...and it should say 'though', not 'thigh'...)

Too easy.



It sticks out like a sore thumb.

Highlighted the word 'penis', then says this. Freudian slip there? No? .

Sorry, my error has seemingly derailed this post.

That's a try all day long. How can you defuse the ball when the opposition player has it?!

He's clearly a very good player, but simply just not at #6, and I've yet to see any evidence that he will ever become fully effective there, and most definitely not while playing alongside Lomax. We're screaming out for an organiser with a kicking game in the halves to play alongside either one of them and Gaskell is about the only option for getting one of those we've got any time soom. Makes me weep....

Thought MMonaghan was back to his best when he came on, nice scoots and quick passing from dummy half. As for Benny Westwood - OUTSTANDING!!