Different forum, same old Saddened. He's like this in the football thread too.

Just one of the reasons I rarely look on there, along with LGJM.

Talk about blinkered

LGJM has a Napoleon Complex, probably comes from the fact that his brother is more famous than he will ever be.

Nathan Brown has made some comments on the Saints website which are quite chilling for Saints fans.

"I very well know why we were not good enough but I'm not making it public. I told the players at half time what I honestly thought we needed to do to beat Wigan, Leeds or Warrington in a big game".

"I don't think it is coincidence Wigan have been dominating Saints for the past four years, let me say that. I know why it is, I have told the players"

My appraisal: much better, not perfect.

Let's enjoy the win for what it was: an 8 tries to 4 stuffing of a team that has made most of our lives hell. Does it mean we're OT bound? Probably not, butwe all enjoyed ourselves. Surely that's why we watch this game.

Best players were Benny, MMonas, Hill, Harrison. And a special mention goes to England, who I thought was terrific and far better than we've seen before.

Hill did the business today worked hard all the game with no breaks for a breather... well done mate

So If I can get this right:

The standard of superleague is very poor

The team that could have gone top today are the worst side in the league

Luke Walsh has gone from Man of Steel "nailed on", to man of

Wire Thankfully are still rubbish and have a defence second worse only to London.

And Leeds and Wigan would put a hundred points on us now just like they did early on in the season (12-1icon_cool.gif (4-12) when we were even worserer.

I love Saints fans, proper students of the game....

Good performance from your mob. Fair play.

Are you now going to stop calling for the head of Tony Smith for a least a week?

That was a brilliant performance yesterday, the crowd was fantastic and the players really stepped up.

Agreed. I was concerned until Ratch's drop goal which seemed to knock the stuffing out of their comeback. We need to shore up our defense as TS said post match - but let's not take anything away from the players who provided us with a magnificent end to the weekend

Now I was drunk and need to see this again but Russell made some fantastic decisions in defence and he's a nippy little bugger too

I don't recall anyone calling for his head. Merely questioning what's going on and asking each other the questions "is he to blame?" "has he taken us as far as he can?"...to which many, including me, said it's too early to be talking like that.

Well there's something new!!

Ignore him, it's just a poor attempt at trolling.

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.