Tried and failed yet again..no crowd..who cares about it..no passion..no real desire to win..truly awful game..i feel really sad about british rl at the mo..but don't want you to rip your head outta the sand

Thats why Stains are rubbish

I thought tonight was an awful game and an awful advert for international RL. It had no skill or intensity and was played between 2 fairly mediocre teams that any top SL team would annihilate. Wigan have beaten better teams than those by over 40 points this year. McNamara or the RFL can dress it up all they like but that was dire tonight.

11,084 better than half of the league games in the weekly rounds

and if you really believe there is no passion and no desire to win just look at some of the tackles, look at tommys injury body on the line and talk to the players involved i know brett was absolutely distraught not to be playing.

It was an absolutely terrible match, no heart from either team, no atmosphere, basically no-one gave a crap about it. It's a good concept, if people cared.

Yadda Yadda..it was gash..we all know it apart from the ones in d-nile..x

the reason it looked slow and mistake ridden was the rain was awful and didnt help that 8 of the exile players that had been in the training sessions had to pull out and they had to adapt this week. watch the 2nd and hopefully better weather and the origional players back it will be a faster better game

No doubt they will tell you that you dont know what your talking about and point to his stats. Stats are all well and good if they are earned with quality play. I always thought Cunningham was similar in his earlier years when he ran too much from dummy half but at least Cunningham had immense strength to knock defenders off and offload which resulted in openings in the defence for the second phase attack. I always felt Cunningham became a better player about 4/5 years ago when he varied his game more. Roby needs to do the same. No wonder Saints have been hammered by Wigan this year. Just shut Roby down and you shut St Helens down most of the time.

Still with no significance.

As I've said on the VT, he only way this concept would work is if there was a significant win bonus for the victorious side.

How many of you have been out today? its slashing it down and blowing a gale, the game was decent for the weather conditions.
I think there are a too many numb brains on here talking nonsense about a lot of things.

exactly get better weather and the other players back for the exiles that did the origional training that pulled out last minute and it will be a different game

you may see a few more "injuries" before the next game now!

The whole concept of the game is a joke really, whats the point of the game? Whats wrong with bringing back Lancashire against Yorkshire? at least there'd be 2 sets of supporters creating an atmosphere. Plus how can McBannana be taken seriously when he picks so many out of form Leeds players? And whats the point playing for a trophy when they only play 2 games, who gets the trophy if the Exciles win the next game.....what an absolute joke!!!

No it wont. I will also be very surprised if even more Exile players dont pull out of the next game.

Yep. Lima and Lauaki have both got knocks after the Bradford home game.