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Agreed, apologies for that comment. I hope you got home safely AS108.

I do hope you dropped your kebab after one bite though.

Watching the game back last night, the sin binning was pivotal.

First, it was the correct decision. But in a match played at bewildering pace and in punishing conditions defending against saints with 12 men for 10 minutes must have been incredibly tough going.

I don't buy all this, their pack owned us they came out second half firing etc. Up to the hour mark they were struggling to get out of their half. After Hughes returned, Walmsley and Thompson ate up the yards against an exhausted defence.

The real problem remains the halves. Dominance has to be turned into points and at the moment we seem to be lacking the confidence that we can do it.

They actually started to get on top when knowles got put to hooker in the 2nd half, there was a noticeable shift, then as we all know they scored from an embarrassing forward pass.

A few points from me, 1 lama tasi should never play for us again, id rather have an inexperienced 16 yr old from the academy playing.

2nd wtf was that penalty against jason ckark for passing the ball out of thr tackle? No one was on him when he hit the floor, the arm was up when they did get to iim, he's allowed to offload it, even if he's not, the refs dont penalise that any more, its get the ball back and play it, another iffy refereeing point.

Well looks like Ashley Klein is the Aussie version of Thaler watching the Knights match.

Disappointed by the end result last night. Saints on top for a lot of the match and we struggled with go-forward.
Having said that, our defence was very solid in the first half.

Key moments -

Hughes sin bin was pivotal - just don't understand what the **** he was trying to do. (Not seen much criticism here regarding this)
Pass to Percival was made before the line and was a received at least a meter in front. Is it true that a forward pass only depends on the angle of the deliverers hands?
Patrons decision to kick on the 2nd. Should have played out the set with option of a drop attempt or kick.
Philbin poor play the ball.

I know people are saying Austin went missing and that's true but that'll always be the case when we only have a couple of game changers on the park. So fair play to Saints - they got their tactics right.

Half of me is pleased we put up a good fight but it confirmed my view about Saints being well ahead of the rest.

I'm with you on this and of course we have a decent half back coming in next season.
How I wish we had gone for Jackson Hastings. He is exactly what is required. He makes space for others. If Wigan get him it will make 'em dangerous.

FMC - I thought Tasi put some decent tackles in to be honest, but not so much go forward.

I'd have thought the better option for SP was to have Bennie on the bench (if he could control the pens....)

Hats off to Saints. Any team that can turn standing offside at ptb into an art form deserves to be top of the league. The officiating was pathetic once again.
Having said that ,for most of the game we matched them toe to toe & snuffed out the Saints attack that has done so much damage this season to most teams. As a forward battle it was a sight to behold from both teams & needed some special or fortunate plays to produce a winner.Was that Thompson who scored Saints second try ? Excellent effort.

I'll try to make this as straightforward as possible.

Yes

I thought there was very little impact from the bench players, Hopefully when BMM returns he will find some form.

The forward pass try gave them what they needed, which is quite embarassing for a team so far ahead of 2nd place. And against 12 men too. Thought our forwards near decimated theirs overall and St helens want to be thankful they have Tommy Makinson to make their metres.

I was at the game, so what did the sky team make of the forward pass.
Before the game i said to win we had to make no errors, how many of their points came from cock ups ?

Cummings tried to make out like the pass was fine because apparently it left the hands sidewards. Barrie was having non of it and said he doesn't care how it came out it went a mile forward. Every one of their points came from our errors. Sin binning. Mamo knock on. Philbin knock on.

And the winner is......................Ben Thaler.
We live to fight another day as the result counts for little. Hopefully, we'll get a fair crack of the whip in the games to come, when there's a lot more at stake than just two league points.

Agree, you battered us and we were really hanging on with all that goal line defence we had to do . . . .

Also agree that winning a game to go 8 clear is quite embarrassing for us.

Give over.