the plan to finish 5th and win the grand final is going brilliantly.

In all seriousness i think most people saw this defeat coming.... we were very poor again... flat attacking line again, very little creativity, loads of dropped ball, stupid decisions from key players early into the tackle count.

The decision not to bring in any fresh faces for this season is looking suspect to say the least.

on the plus side i think these defeats and a few more about to come our way will help in the long run.

How has Michael Monaghan been this season so far? I thought he looked very limited tonight, constantly trying to pinch cheap penalties rather than being creative.

he hasn't looked great, certainly not the player of 2 years ago.... then again... only grix and myler have been playing well... oh and hill

No one had a good game tonight. Currie did well.

Just a sub standard effort by the whole team.

thats exactly what it was... a poor display.

no more, no less.

As the title of this thread states "don't worry". However, I did expect people to be throwing the baby out with the bath water and calling for Smiths head along with players to be binned. Lets keep the faith

Lets face it as said 5th place is good enough.

Dick around all season and come good at the end and win the Grand Final that's the secret to being the best of the best .

Only change I would have made is drop Atkins and leave Reece in the Squad

We missed the work rate of Trent tonight. He completes intelligent runs and causes problems for defences. Still not to worry, I've only got to go to work and face loads of St Helens fans next week :0(

I actually thought M Monas had a fair game, at least he looked like he could put someone through a gap if anyone had bothered being on his shoulder every time he ran from acting HB.

How many of us were calling for fresh faces to be brought in in the off season?

Who was on the market that we should have gone for that would have been better than the players we had?

To say that was poor would be to give credit where it's not due.

Very lethargic from the start
Failure to complete sets
Lots of errors
Back line disjointed. Backs receiving ball standing still, or the ball thrown behind them.
Forwards taking the ball up with no backup runners.
Poor kicking game
Monas was either unfit or still carrying an injury, and I suspect Joel might be as well.


TBH, I didn't see many positives at all. And I can see why Saints fans are so pessimistic as well. We looked like two mid table teams. I don't mind losing if the basics are done properly and the players are enthusiastic, but neither of those applied tonight. TS has a lot of work to do.

I'd have to agree with that, sadly. Chris Bridge was good, a very rare glimpse of incisive centre play but for the most part it was poor to the point of embarrassment.

Good for 50 mins but attack was panicked trying to catch up. Woody had a good game, so did Bridge. On the whole some good stuff but Winter blues. Warmer days and daylight games is where we kick on. Roll on summer, but keep the faith, we'll be there come Sept.

I don't want to write Stefan Ratchford off as a half back, but somebody needs to coach him how to draw a man (or two) in before passing the ball on - I was amazed at the amount of times he simply caught, and then immediately released the ball to the next man, without an opposition player near him.

As for the rest, nothing very positive to draw from the performance..... I don't want to make a knee-jerk reaction, but, dare I say, we looked a little old and battle weary out there, and we are only 6 games in.