O Dear - lost have we.

>s<

My understanding was that he was equally bad for both teams.
Let's face it, a win today would have been a bonus. The game was maybe a bit tighter than the scoreline indicates, and let's hope we get underestimated on the back of it.

it would be a bit simplistic to blame the ref! he did nothing than the usual not wanting to penalise a 'big club'. we were beaten by a team with an awesome defense and some great attacking players. we were never going to overtake teams like saints in an off season were we? what was pleasing to me was that we competed for 76 mins where we could of won had we been a little less green and not forced it as much. we have loads of positives to take from todays performance and may competing with the best teams continue!

6 - 12 with 5 mins to go & Scoreline flattered Saints. The boys should be very proud and were very impressive today. Just a shame about Ref.

Thought the ref did ok today, missed a few but he's human. Got all the big decisions right. He had no bearing on the outcome.

The difference between the 2 teams today was finishing, Saints were clinical. Other than their tries I can't remember Saints having any other chances, in other words every time they got a chance they took it, Giants didn't.

The turning point was Finnigan being held up at 12-6 with 10 to go. One on one he should have got that ball down. Hudd had enough chances in the second half to have won but a mixture of great Sts defence, luck and poor finishing was enough to see Sts home. The scoreline flattered Sts in the end but thats the sign of a class team, playing for the full 80 and scoring late points.

a bit tighter??????
i wouldnt call 5 tries to 1 a bit tight.....and if long had kicked the goals it would have been even slacker..

Lets be serious about this - the referee gave some wierd decisions both ways - but at least he had the gonads to make them.

At 6-12 the game was tight and only some incredible defence kept you out, but it was 3 tries to one at that stage - if we had a goal kicker the game wouldnt have been as tight and the Giants resolve wouldnt have been as determined.

You definately have to take into acount that for a lot of the latter stages of the game we were playing with 3 players who have less than 10 games between them and were all on the field together.

I thought the Giants were going to win after last weeks performance, but the Saints put together a performance today that was worthy of winning any game - although be it far from perfect.

I think that we played okay and that the scoreline flattered Saints a little but you have to credit their defence, which was very good.

I thought we blobbed the first half and Alibert had a very big 10m first half for both sides that Saints made better use of. Second half his 10m was skinnier and we upped our game a bit but couldn't make use of our supremacy by turning it into points.

Saints were more clinical, they got a chance and converted it. We didn't.

One thing I did notice about Halibut (sp.) was his lack of clear signals to show what the decisions were. Or maybe he wasn't sure.
Sure Saints got away with a fair bit but so did we. Where we fail is we don't push to the limits that such as Saints do.
Shabby performance for a full time ref yet probably no worse than most.

Also, Tony Puletua, what a strong guy he is.