Who cares about Saints missing players

What about Clubb, Randall, Melling, Rodney, Colborn, Howell.......

Great win. Good to see the face on McManus the Sts chairman at the end. The coach didnt seem to fussed!!

He never does. He's secure for three years.

Good win for London. Glad you have enjoyed a home league win at last, although obviously I would rather it not have been at our expense!

The problem is Saints had it too good for too long! and now supporters are really feeling sorry for themselves, they don't seem to realise as you point out how other teams have to live most of the time! Would love to have seen the face of McManus he did not look too happy last week at Hull KR.

It was annoying listening to the coverage on BBC Five Live Sports Xtra at the Etihad in Manchester, it is wrong when they put on amateur presenters such as the one from BBC Radio Merseyside, but even worse still when the co-commentator is someone from the St Helens Club who is such a die hard he would never see anything if it hit him in the face other than Saints!

Rooney is employed by the BBC and therefore is not amateur. Mike Appleton is indeed the Saints media manager but I thought he did a good job given that he had an uncomfortable tightrope to walk. Employed by the Saints, he wouldn't have been able to criticise the Saints in the way that a neutral could do. The problem lay with 5Live deciding to use Radio Merseyside's coverage rather than cover the game themselves as obviously Radio Merseyside is going to be biased towards Saints, who are after all your home town team.

London won. Why moan?

He's a Northern (judging by bio) RL fan!

I moan because Rooney like French are amateur! & they do the image of the game of RL no good! I do not doubt Alan Rooney's commitment, but I stand by they are amateur. When the game was being broadcast on national radio, it should have at least been considered to have someone neutral and informed BBC Radio Merseyside of this, there must have been journalists at the game.

Yes we did win! so no way am I moaning about that, just a shame I was at the West Ham game, not seen enough matches when we have beaten or drawn with!

Great game, well worth the even longer than usual journey into London (cheers South Eastern) even if we hadn't won.

Nothing flashy just solid rugby league. Attack with a deep line, work hard in defence, no silly errors, 100% effort for the full 80 minutes- simples.

Can't really fault any of the individual performances for once, certainly didn't notice anyone have a shocker. Gower played as well as I've seen him for us, Witt pretty lively. Forwards all solid, Bailey especially I thought was outstanding in defence, noticed him make big tackles a few times and straight up to make another from the marker. Seeing some improvements come into Dixon's game the last couple of weeks as well, better under the high ball and in defence.

Good to see Sts fans down in number and appreciating their depleted team's efforts yesterday at the final whistle, was half expecting them to be a bit more hostile given their recent run of results and given some of the comments from their threads on here.

Bring on Hull Friday, it's winnable if we play sensible rugby for 80 minutes again for sure.

I don't want to get too carried away about a win against a severely under-strength Saints side but it was a pleasing performance certainly. Witt was excellent - tackled really well, which was noticeable. We certainly didn't look anywhere near as defensively porous and didn't make the same level of errors as in previous games.

As it is, it's just nice to finally chalk up a home win.

2,839 according to the BBC. Is that the highest gate this season?

Not a lot to shout about if it was

No, it's the second biggest after the opening day loss to Widnes....it is however, the lowest EVER gate for the visit of St Helens to the capital to take on London in the SL era, is down 43% on last years gate which was out biggest of 2012, is the first St H game in the capital v London that has a crowd that starts with a "2" and is, in my honest opinion, another example of how far the club have fallen under its current management.

7 games into the season and we are averaging 1,980 a game!

At least we won eh

BUT it wasn't the lowest gate in SL this weekend!!!! Take a bow, Salford.

He played right centre?

If so, who next on that merry-go-round?

Howell back hopefully!

I thought it was a great performance but how could I not given that it is the first win v St Helens at home since 2002?

Saints have concentrated almost all their salary cap on the top 17 and don't have much to choose from beyond that and thus they will win more games at full strength but suffer more than us with injury.

There is not a lot to choose between any of the top 25 for the Broncos bar a few irreplaceable matchwinners like Gower, Dorn and Witt but we have an army of similar forwards.

So it was nicely poised with the bookies giving us a six point handicap.

We were missing nine players from those who would normally wear a jumper between 1-17:

(2) Colbon (4) Howell (9) Randall (11) Rodney (13) Clubb (14) Wheeldon (15) Channing (16) Melling (17) Grady

Saints were also missing nine players from those who would normally wear a jumper between 1-17:

(2) Gardner (5) Meli (7) Lomax (icon_cool.gif Perry (9) Roby (12) Wilkin (13) Manu (15) Flanagan (17) Wheeler

Also, both teams lost a winger to a match-ending injury in the first half

Very enjoyable and I thought Gower, Witt and Bailey were outstanding

Cheers
Rammo