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.

But as you say, we have HKR on Friday. No point going all out when the game was won when we only have a 4 day turn around.

[I suspect that if it had been closer, Lunty would have returned to the field. How impressive is he this season? Thank you Baloo for standing your ground and not giving in to NB last season!]

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

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 ?.

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.

Silverwood was very sympathetic to Saints last night. If anyone has the game recorded watch and listen to him, every set he was shouting to Giants players warning them (thereby slowing the line speed down, not a peep to Saints but did a couple of times have a word in the ear at breakdowns. Saints were very slow to clear the ruck often 4-5 seconds after calling the tackle complete, yet Robbo was pinged for holding on for what 1 second? If that was the standard Giants should have received another 20 penalties!!!!

Twice in the match he called zero tackle after Saints knocked on, only to not go back to the scrum, in the first half when Robbo kept it alive to Broughy whose offload to Grix was knocked on. Broughy queried that with Silverwood who then claimed his TJ said no saints knock on, " but you called zero tackle says Danny". second time late in the second half we forced a drop out, but a scrum on the Saints 10 is surely better.

I really do not think Silverwood should be allowed to Ref us after his behaviour saw him ejected from and then banned from the Stadium as a spectator.

As for the win, we did it in second gear, clearly put the cue on the rack early looking forward to Friday. If we were playing Sunday not Friday it would have been a similar score to first time we played them. Saints are a very ordinary side this year, and the Tinkerman looks familiarly confused.

The mullally/gardner incident was handled perfectly IMO. Glad it's no major damage to Ade as well. Nice to see both sets of fans stand to clap him all the way off too. Only in RL.

At the game I thought Silverwood let saint lay on a lot and loiter off side - and some if his holding penalties were hugely inconsistent. But he was probably equally bad

Our BIG problem was trying to score from every set when it went to 25-6, we tried to blow them away but without any patience or pressure and our errors let them back into the game