Ahhhh the beauty of Sky TV and Stevo.....

Apparently Saints are back to world class this week.

18- nil up against Huddersfield and they are grand final prospects again
Yet according to Stevo we also went 18- nil up at the same stage last week however saints were poor and we simply took advantage.

Neither team anywhere near the standard of Wigan's kids last night.

Saints looked ok very early on but blimey Huddersfield were (and have continued to be) appalling. Anyone reading anything into this Saints performance is deluded.

Just caught the 2nd half of the game, but could somebody explain to me how Wheeler(think it was him) was awarded a try when he quite clearly bounced the ball

Stevo had to change his pants at half time.

The remarks by Wellens about the embarrassment of losing to the Wire just show the arrogance of the man .....amazing how when we beat some of these teams it has been because they had an off day.

I am just glad that in the year we finished top that so many of the other teams enabled us to do it by having off days.

The year we finished top, we lost games to Catalans and Hull who were mid table sides. I'm sure we regarded this as us having an 'off day'. That's how Saints view us now. A mid-table side who you shouldn't be losing to if you are genuine trophy contenders.

It was nothing to do with being beaten by Warrington. It was everything to do with our totally humiliating performance. C'mon we gifted you your first half tries! You got your first one by picking up the ball that LMS had dumped out of the tackle for Mr Nobody. You didn't have to do much because we just gave you the ball. We particularly liked passing it to nobody.

What Wellens said worked. Everybody knuckled down this week, bar one or two who still need to do more. Our game last night was not for your entertainment, it was the first step to retrieving what started as a great season for us.

Wello is the least arrogant player you will find in rugby league. But he does love his Saints and he shows that every week by giving 110% on the pitch. Most of the rest of the team were not giving the 10% last week much less 110%. They'd have scored more than three tries in nine minutes had they done so.

Not how I saw it.
Wello said he was embarrassed by the defeat and Brown also said he told the players how they can beat Leeds and Wigan.

Apparently Wire in his opinion aren't a team that requires his council to beat.

Hudds were pants last night, and Saints punished them.

Typical Saints fan reaction though, a mate of mine text me saying how epic Saints were (he's only just started watching RL about two weeks ago as his missus is a Saints fan, he used to despise the sport) so I reminded him how epic Warrington were at the magic weekend, to which he replied, "no, we (saints) were crap". I then replied how Hudds were crap also, and he wasn't having any of it.

Can't have it both ways.

But Saints were only humiliated last week because the Wire did a typical Saints blitzkrieg on Saints & knocked them out of their stride. Our typical start of allowing opponents to score first would have allowed Saints to open an ever widening gap as we chased the game. Last week a dramatic change of tactics worked for us .

No because Wire are pretty average this season.

That's not the opinion of disrespectful Saints fans thats the opinion of Wire fans.

We are an average team that is lacking power in the front row, lacking a dominant halfback, lacking leadership and lacking ideas of how to finish off plays and get over the try line.

If we are bothered about not having respect from Stevo/Eddie or the rest of Super League here's a way to address that:
1. Go to Bradford in the Challenge Cup and smash them. 50-0 or something. Other teams have done it. Don't give them a sniff of being able to compete.
2. Take on whoever we get drawn against in the semi finals and win. However we do it, just win.
3. Go to Wembley and complete our 4th Challenge Cup title in 5 years since 2009.

That will get respect: are Wire a team good enough to get it?