The knob in the crowd next to me got very emotional towards the end, threatened to kill me, then said hes going to St Helens on Sunday to laugh when they lose.

Dont think he also realised im a Widnes fan haha.

Such hate towards the Saints!

A cliche I know but you must get the small details right(the aussies do),wire knocked on at the play the ball at least twice to my memory relieving pressure on both occasions and why the halves insisted on putting the ball aerial every time baffled me.A great contest for the neutral though.

As long as the rules on head high tackles revert back to normal after the series then I'm fine. Players welfare should be paramount.

As for the game, we made too many errors and had a bobbins kicking game.

Best team won.

St George were expert at protecting the reciever catching the ball . The defenders made certain they knew where the attackers were running and got in their line early enough to make it hard to give a pen. Against SL opposition Joel would have scored at least a couple.

There was loads of that sort of niggly crap going on. I don't watch much NRL so can't say if that's par for the course down there, but it was frustrating to watch. They were the better side, definitely, but some of their 'gamesmanship' was a bit hard to take.

On the contrary, he didn't let the game flow. He refused to give penalties for lying on and slowing the ruck down, which in turn made for a turgid second half.
St G adapted better by lying on at all times and knowing they would not be penalised - not a pretty sight. For some reason Wire did not lie on or slow the St G game down as, if they had adopted the St G tactics they would probably have won the game.

So, what you are saying is, it is OK to deliberately swing an arm from your hip level up into an opponents chest/shoulder and let it slide up into his chin/face/head and nearly decapitate him, without being carded?

Lots of interesting points on here. Some I agree with some I don't, but for me there was several key points that came from the game last night.

1. The refereeing is too inconsistent and until that is sorted the sport won't be able to progress to the level of NRL. What's the point of having a sin bin law if they don't use it? Same again with the penalty try rule. Why are referees 'letting things go' against the Aussies year after year to serve up a better game. Rules are rules and are there for a reason. All Ganson does on Sky is back up referees - pointless.

2. We aren't that far away from NRL standard and provided a tough test for St George last night.

3. We are a good side who I fully expect to finish in the top 4 this year

4. St gGeorge won the game yesterday through the kicking game and game management of their half-backs. Ours was very poor and our kicking game was awful. We need to improve our half back pairing IMO for us to develop. Our next acquisition NEEDS to be someone to play alongside Myler.

5. There were more positives to come from last night than negatives.

This same fans comments on tonights game on the Wigan board:

'Cracking game and credit to the effort from both teams'

Dont you just love the one eyed Pie!!

7 thousand more fans and about 50 decibels lower noise.

I'll hazard a guess wigan too was also garbage

I've been to both and going to tomorrows too, preferred ours as it was more attacking, this one tonight was attritional, think Wigan played only 3 sets in the oppositon half in 2nd half.
A ground out win for Broncos but I thought they had it under control.

Thought we did okay in spells but were severely lacking in other spells, especially in the second half.

We defended well for the most part apart from the odd bizarre moments. But on the ball we could have been far better. Our kicking game will see is struggle to win the big prizes this year IMO, it's very poor (it was last season too) and was evident the other night. I think we put two decent kicks in in the whole 80minutes. Then anytime we got within 20m of their line in the second half we had terrible tactics (one set we were right on their line and tried to run in from dummy half three tackles in a row which was laughed at by Dugan it was so easy to defend) or we threw the ball away cheaply.

We also didn't lay a finger on Benji Marshall once. I bet his kit was still white when he got into the changing rooms. He had an easy night on the ball.

Overall I don't think we gave a good account of ourselves as a whole, we're better than we showed. But still was quite proud to have stuck in their with them. Although Ben Harrison from the bench was excellent and Kevin Penny, well, he's never played better IMO.

Still, I'm not disappointed in that (even though it sounds like a moan). I just think we are capable of better.

+1.

I watched the game again last night. You often see much more second time round. It was a great game and we should/could have won it.
I really watched the half backs and the kicks. On reflection I don't think we kicked that badly and I reckon they had some luck with their kicks (particularly for their winning score). The gap between the sets of half backs was not that wide.
We did lose the ball too much. We were very badly treated by the referee. Micky Higham was the liveliest hooker. Some very encouraging stuff.