So Saints deliberately let Hock 'score' Roberts just fail to take the ball from Tompkin's perfectly weighted kick or somehow made the ball fall badly when he kicked through with the line gaping all of which would have won us the game. "Did enough to win"? Were comprehensively outplayed and were lucky to get the 2 points. See the posts from the more reasonable of your fans and try to get some balance. Saints proved their class in their goal line defence and the fact that they took their tries when the chances came their way even when not playing well, but don't kid yourself that you were anything but lucky on the day.

Wigan won't be far off if we can get to that standard consistently. We'll only get better as well when the under performers get shown the door and some decent recruitment.

The loss of Cunningham to Saints will hurt them hugely. He and the fact that he had a bigger, stronger pack were the main reasons why Saints won that game. That won't be the case in the next couple of years.

Keep the patience, our time will come.

with the efforts of Wigan, and how they dominated possesion and feild positon, i am pleased and happy even though we lost. If we play like that against any other team we will run riot. YES we should have converted our chances and were unlucky with that flukey Pryce try - the ball just dropped into his hands!

People who are sitting here saying "We lost, we must of played rubbish" obv. no nothing about how a team can play well and lose. Remember we were playing St. Helens, one of the best dfnesive teams in the league.

On shaun ainscough, the first time i saw him play at Warrington preseason (pink kit game) i said the exact same thing how he is another jason robinson, just how he carrys the ball in two hands, his small and wide structure.


Overall, Very happy with the Wigans efforts!!!

One team has to lose (unless its a draw ), therefore two excellent teams could play and the losers would still be worthy of praise. (I'm not saying either team was excellent BTW. This current Saints team couldn't live with say the 2005 Bratfut side, let alone the great Wigan sides of the early-mid 90s).

I applauded the Wigan team last night. They tried hard and didn't disgrace the famous Cherry and White shirt.

I didn't and wouldn't applaud BN though. He simply isn't performing and needs to go.

although not as good as keiron they still have roby and a knack of attracting very good aussies i wouldn't be surprised if they unveiled cameron smith as their new replacement

Wigan were full of effort and deserve credit for their attitude and approach to the game.

Fact is though that we had played Leeds in battle royals twice in a fortnight, one of which was 4 days prior, with a tough trip to Wakey in between.

Factor in a weakened team and the likes of Hull/Kr/Cas/Hudds would have hammered us last night.

Here we go knew this was coming

If the players play with that passion every week i'll be happy win or lose, over the last few years we have hadplayersnot wanting to play with pride just collect there pay check now we have some good wigan lads coming through who want to play for the club and care about what the badge means

Well a few weeks ago the majority of Wigan fans said they dont mind losing if the team show effort. The team put in a huge performance last night and everybody knows that Wigan outplayed Saints for the majority of the game. In the end what won Saints the game was a superb defensive effort and their experience of knowing how to win a tight game. The difference in the end was a speculative bomb followed by a lucky bounce straight into the arms of Pryce.

Like it or not there is no disgrace in narrowly losing to Saints. They are the best team in SL by far. They have just demonstrated that by totally dismantling Leeds. Had we had the bounce of the ball we would all be celebrating victory today. Thats the way it goes.

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cudda sworn we got beat

Thanks most saints fans just say saints were poor but tbh I thought we made you look poor for most of the game, many of your errors were forced.

Exactly. Most of Saints errors came from our own superb defence and harrassing the Saints ball carrier.Only twice did we switch off in defence,once for the Cunningham try but full credit to KFC he has always been able to score those kind of trys and the other time Carmont charged out of the line allowing Gidley space to dive over. Unfortunately those 2 lapses Saints took advantage of but thats the kind of team they are. Their winning try came from a speculative bomb that we failed to deal with and the bounce of the ball could not of been more lucky for Pryce.