Great game and well refereed but lets be fair, Saints had something like 7 injuries, Wilkin, Burns, Walsh, Vea, the young centre etc.

I now expect someone to quote me their grand final team and say that was more or less the same side that played yesterday

Going by the Wigan website we didn't even score 12.

According to the Sky Sports Score Centre and Sky Sports website Mossop kicked the conversion after Manfredi's try and Smith converted after Burgess's try.

It may surprise you to learn that the average tackle time is actually slightly faster in SL than the NRL has been getting marginally quicker each season since 2012

Yes, it would surprise me very much. Before this season, I might have agreed with you. But this year...?

Not sure about walked it but I'd agree we were one or two halfbacks away from a win for sure. Our forwards put us in the right position time and time again but we had no creativity or guile to make the most of it.

I'm surprised we stayed in the game for as long as we did give the personnel on show for both teams.