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.

And another thing, I think we copped a few grapple and head tackles today. Lawrence was all over the shop and the BBC picture is indicative of what I mean...

The score did flatter saints. It was a pretty poor game overall imo and it was only the last 10 mins that we really came good

Thought the Saints defence was immense and at 12-6 it almost gave way, used their experience to run the clock down and when they scored with 5 mins to go it was game over. Fartown were just waiting for the whistle and Saints made the scoreline look more one sided than the game was.

Having said that I thought we gave them a good game and a little bit of luck and we may have knicked it.

We'll take your coaches opinion over yours, which is clearly tripe! Clueless is a word that springs to mind.