Great effort lads

A few missed tackles cost us the game. I though Rodney was impressive and looked for work.

Difference today compaired to the last two seasons! saints had to WIN the game rather than us giving it to them on a plate like we did on so many games
Difference between the two teams, have to agree it was Lomax and Roby

Witt played well, Kuaffusi will be a crowd fave this year, Dorny fluffed a couple of pick ups that he shoudl have nailed safely, good to see Gower getting the lads together and giving em talking too when we gave away silly penalties
The big fear of being ripped apart in the centres did not happen
We do seem to have a bit of grunt up the middle
Overall, good signs, crowd could have been better but rubbish weather, still bigger crowd than the Salford game in there big new stadium.

Despite the loss thoroughly enjoyed the game

Surprising number of old Broncos jumpers there. I'm a post-Broncos era fan, and the Union connection wasn't a problem for me, but I was impressed by how many were out in the old colours.

We had about three times more pressure in the last 20 than Saints, but didn't have the guile or power to get over the line. J'OC was stopped three times within five metres. Saints weren't as good as they usually are, but they showed their traditional strength at the breakdown thanks to Roby and Lomax and were able to score from long-distance. Still, a good day out. It felt like we had only three or four close finishes at home in the last two seasons, and we should be in for more excitement this year.

Good crowd and an enjoyable game. I liked the fact that the announcer pointed out it was the biggest crowd of the season.
I bumped into Maurie Fa'asavalu and asked him if he'd decided to watch a proper game for a change? He just laughed.

Honest answer, its nice to beat saints and do the double on Leeds etc
but IMO the games we should be winning are Wakey/Cas/Salford/Widnes pretty easily Hull/KR/Hudds/Cats/bradfurt should be our competative games, top 4 i see as Sts/wigan/leeds/wire and as long as they dont spank us am happy.

thats exactly what happened today, we gave a good account of oursleves and the returning fans should have gone home thinking "yep not bad" with what we produced today it could be a reasonable season

Just the third game together. I can only see the positives & improvements from the last two seasons. Great game lads & a shame about the penalty conversions given away.

I loved Olsi's try. Just like the old Clubby near the line - "gimme the ball near the line" I'm gonna score! The only Albanian to score in SL this year, the announcer didn't say!

The game aside I was really impressed by the great atmosphere especially in the West Stand. Its where we want to be and Im sure we are all glad the club have come round. Pity about the result but we were competitive and when we went behind we fought back and didn't cave in like last season. Benefit of having some hardy experienced pro's who have seen and done it all before and who have some real quality to offer. You can't ask much more from a team. We will go well this season, won't trouble the top 4 but we will be competitive.

Did think the announcer was good today
"todays attendance 4900 and something our biggest gate this season"
oh yep forgot about Osli good game as well

There were a couple of occasions in the second half where Clubb wanted the ball out wide but couldn't get into position in time before it went out to O'Callaghan. I'm sure Clubb would have got over the line from those positions.

It already seems ridiculous to think of Clubb as having been a back. Boy, has he filled out.

From Saints Website :

'This is a very good attacking side, with threats all over the park; from the experienced and skillful foreign backs in Robertson, Witt and Gower to their mobile pack consisting of the likes of the impressive Bailey to their great youth prospects Dixon, O'Callaghan and Krasniqi. Their halves are commanding, and the overall structure is a threatening one that will probably cause many a side in Super League problems this year.'

That was a much better Broncos team than last year. There was far more weight in the middle, and Kaufusi looked very effective, although he was clearly not enjoying the temperature. The key difference though was Gower. Broncos looked like they were actually playing to a plan, and were being steered around the park. They were steady throughout. Some of Gower's work was very impressive. I had wondered whether that signing was a bit too much of a risk, but today was reminded that you don't get to be the Kangaroo scrum-half without being pretty special. Some of the Broncos' handling along the backline and running angles was also a step above last season. You didn't get that sense of headlessness near the opponents' line which seemed standard last year.

Saints looked a bit rusty, but as already pointed out, they're going to destroy some teams this year. Lomax played a more dominant game than I've seen before, and Hohaia at fullback offered the sort of pace and penetration which Wellens hasn't offered for some time. Gaskell's kicking game meant that those three key positions looked more sound for Saints than any time since Long and Pryce were ever-present. Roby was also his very good today, and without him, that game might not have ended up the way it did.

That was a good game between two strong sides. Much better than I'd hoped.

Tell you what, though : I haven't been that cold watching a match since 1995. Good grief.

Think I watched a dif game. Saints did bigger all apart from
Do us on scoots from dummy half.

We handed them their trys and they got lucky. We controlled much of the game and a it was only our errors - and two/three decisions I couldn't work out. That gave them the lead.

Our shortcomings- tightening around the ruck- can be worked on- otherwise we matched or bettered them in plenty of areas.

And when was the last time we matched up size-wise with a top team?

That's as maybe - I wasn't there so I don't know - but that has been winning us games since 2006 so I would suggest, especially given that we beat you today, that we in fact did more than 'bigger all' (although I think you meant to write 'bugger' there, but never mind).