Based on Hampshire missing 7 only the week before and being dropped you’d expect him back in on that justification. Ashurst is almost the complete second rower. He’d be an ideal choice for the England set up.

MC tweeted earlier that Bill T did 238m yesterday and his top metre maker in league. I have looked at the stats he is joint top meter maker with carney but has a better avg metres per carry

it was a great win and big WIN for our little club against the big guns..

love the celebration at the end

Much more relaxing watching the Trinity TV repeat.

One big hit by Lyne on Zeb Taia had Taia playing the old rubbing of the neck trick. Must've forgot it wasn't a televised game.

It was a shame that the early track back tackle by BJB on Richardson didn't prevent that early score.

True colours slipping out a bit there?

The track back probably would have saved a try if the ref hadn't lost count of the tackles. It was the sixth but he neither called nor signalled. If he had done there is every chance Saints would have kicked rather than run the ball at that stage.

I have always liked Saints and if I were to have a second team then they would be it and have always found their fans to be very amiable but on Sunday I couldn't believe how much whingeing and whining they were doing...they never stopped for the whole 80 minutes !!.
Our eldest daughter's boyfriend ( a Salford and Wakey fan) had some Saints friends at the game and went to stand with them on the Western terrace in the first half and when he came back for the second half, he said he couldn't believe how much whingeing the Saints fans were doing as it was totally unjustified

Oddly I felt even more tense watching it again even though I knew the result! It was weird tbh but I couldn't shake the feeling we were going to lose it in the last minute.

I felt exactly the same. At times it felt like the clock was going backwards.

This was a great win and could set us up for a good run.

Saying that, it's a bit like breaking serve in a tennis match. The coaches always say that you haven't broken serve until you win your own on the next game.
We need to beat Salford to make sure we feel the benefit.

I thought I was in the old Leeds south stand with the number of shouts of forward pass, which sadly were from Wakefield supporters. I guess they worked on the principal that if you shout it for every pass you are going to be correct some of the time.
It does get a little tedious and not something I have come across so much in the east stand, because the majority of us are too old to see that far.

This doesn't bother me much. Having seen the video highlights I thought that Richardson touched the line whilst being tackled by BJB so should have been awarded the try there. The fact that they scored on the same set kind of makes it academic.

He did after moving the ball forward after the tackle. It would have been a double movement. He is tackled short and then moves his ball carrying arm so the ball is almost/practically on the line.