Couple of handling errors and a couple of penalties, so I'm not going to go overboard, but it was a much, much better performance and for at least 75 minutes of the match. He finally looks up to speed after the well-documented lack of a pre-season. And if he was waiting for it to warm up, well it ain't gonna get much warmer than last night...

Oh, and first league double over Saints since the 1950s. They can't take that away from you.

Totally agree with JOHND, apart from LMS, he got flattened by Eorl in the first half and really didn't know what day it was, but when he came back on in the second half he proved what a quality player he is.
Looked to me as though he had a point to prove.

I don't know why, but most of the Refs were sat in the Free seats, Ganson, Ben Filtham, Uncle Albert and Sharpy, amongst others, perhaps that was why Silverwood was showing off in front of his mates, it may explain some of his decisions.

Fair point and again our penalty count was high but think that is the case virtually every game and its not really coming back to hurt us....yet.

We were very good in the 1st half when, to me, we got the game won, 2nd half we eased off, understandably considering we play again on Friday (madness !!) and allowed a very very poor Saints side to gain some respectability. I dont think we were in any danger of losing as we could have gone up a few gears if we needed to but it was an uneasy 15 minutes to watch.

Job done, 2 points in the bag at a low enough intensity to save bodies and energy for Friday.

It wasn't so bad last night. 7, I think. Always room for improvement, but less than one every ten minutes ain't so bad.

Welcome to the Nathan Brown form of team selection!!!

Thought Mr S had a decent game. Especially the Mullally/Gardner incident. He could easily have sent our man off. Thankfully he has no case to answer and Gardner is OK - well enough to be considered for selection this weekend.

Wardle's try is another point. I was convinced that he hadn't scored. Even the replays at the ground confirmed my decision. However, watching it on the SL Show, it clearly showed that Joe grounded the ball - albeit just. Well done Ian Smith.

Good win lastnight and great to do the double over saints!

how times have changed.

the game should of been over by half time with the murphy try that got disallowed due to the supposed bad tackle form mullally when gardner fell over



think we were abit guilty of overplaying though and saints made a mini comeback but job well done.

Taai put two massive hits in!

very good atmosphere lastnight too, the best ive known it at the giants in a long long time, lets keep it up.
was there a drum at the back of the brittania stand? seemed to help and also the barmy army chant went on for a while and the whole stand started to get involved and really enjoyed it!

This is exactly what i said, why risk injuries or having needless energy losses just for the sake of scoring a couple more tries to make the score look good when we play again in 4 days ?.

No drum, just hands on seats !!

Was impressed with that how everyone joined in and it kept building back up too, thought the BR stand was pretty good last night - a lot more joining in than usual.

did you not see taai at widnes and bradford then , was pretty much awesome in those two games too if not more so than lastnight for me.