I did yeah, he played well. I think he’ll go well next year but Wellens will soon coach that flair out of him. He’ll be dropping off an inside pass and kicking to the corners in no time.

As for today it’s strange going to a game expecting a defeat but that’s the reality. As fast as we get players back we lose more. Bell and Sironen gone from last week and despite being named in the squad, Walmsley has supposedly pulled a quad so we are worse off than last week despite having Lomax and Matautia back.

I just want a good effort today, personally I’d try a couple more kids but he’s very risk averse Wellens so I can still see Davies in there who is a bang average player.

Tough going for Leeds to overtake them I think. They need to win two games more than Saints to overtake them. Not impossible when two of their four are against London and Hull, but their other two are against us and Hull KR, so you'd probably say they have to win at least one of those to have a chance.

Leigh are a different kettle of fish though. They have tough fixtures too, but will probably finish today just the one point behind them and will have Saints to play on the last game of the season. Could be a knock out fixture just a week early!

Comfortable Saints win this afternoon, you read it here first

Interesting that Saints fans are quoting the win/loss stats with and without French to prove we're a 'one man team'. Sky has just shown the win/loss for Saints with and without Morgan Knowles and it's 73% with and just 45% without! Apparently Saints are a one man team too! Who would have guessed that one man was Knowles though

How's that going?

Oops

In work so not seen any of it but a quick glance on RV and it seems they’ve finally thrown the “golden generation” in, seems they’re a way off being ready yet

Next week is the crucial one for Saints - they need two wins to make the top 6 IMO and with Leigh and Warrington to come they'll need to beat Huddersfield.

I can't get on Redvee. Their server is on meltdown again. I get up early me though so i will sneak on in the morning when they are all in bed.

After crying themselves to sleep

We can all laugh at Saints' plight, but that red card never was.

It's all part of an incremental creep towards our collapse as genuine form of entertainment (and unlike RU, we don't have an over-hyped, over-promoted international programme to fall back on).

And before anyone quotes the lawsuit factor at me, that changes nothing about the question now facing us. Do you want to introduce your grandkids to the version of RL that so captured our imaginations when we were young, or do you want it to be tick and pass?

He’s jumped off the floor and hit his head though. If he doesn’t jump I’d be happy to give it a yellow at worst. Saints have a reckless attitude to defence, people like Knowles and Percival have been lucky they’ve not significantly injured players. I’d like us to explore somehow making the game as it is null and void so we can renegotiate contacts with more favourable rules about accepting some liability for the risks they have playing the game. I don’t think we can get the game back to where it should be otherwise.