I’m sure it’s down to drugs, take Joe Batchelor whos morphed into the best second row in the game, Bentley leaves Saints he’s become crap. James Roby is running through brick walls at a hundred, Danny Houghton is running in quicksand. French & Field are like Rock of Gibraltar & Shergar, Swift & Griffin are like Foinaven and Hercules,

It must be drugs, we’re on downers, the northwest on uppers, we need a new supplier.

Coote said Saints would thrive in the NRL. Doubt that very much.

Two weeks ago we let Handley score 5 tries against us, this week we let french score 7 tries against us...it's really not good enough.

poor result .Just watched the highlights. Griffin just doesnt look fit. But Simms tackling was awful. Tackling all round looked poor, Good points we have a lot back, Plus Simms looked really quick chasing after fields, big game against CAS

OF course criticise,no problems. am on about some who have called him for over 3 years.

Actually weakish really though compared to past origin sides

No slater, inglis, Cronk, Thurston, Smith, Cordner who are all a big step up above any in their positions

England won't have a better chance of beating the aussies in a major

As said above the nrl is definitely weaker

Lost players like slater, inglis, Jennings, Thurston, cronk, smith, cordner, Thaiday etc last few years that serious quality all at once

And is there any players in their positions better than them ? Not for me

Tedesco and munster are the best Australia have these days but still nowhere near slater or Thurston level

Tedesco couldn't get in the aussie 2017 side so played for Italy

It’s not even the same sport anymore. I posted on our board, the origin game if played here, under the current interpretation of the rules, sees a few red cards and bans in the dozens handed out.

There has to be a massive get together of players, coaches, referees, disciplinary board members and even fans to see exactly where we’re heading and how we want the game to look in 5 years. The refs can’t do it all themselves! Players feigning injury every few minutes is a huge issue.

You didnt see your man Griffin chasing back.At least Simm and Walker chased back and put some effort in.
Its not fitness with Griffin its laziness and attitude, well hopefully the coach has seen enough and he joins Shaul on the get rid list.
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Seen the 7 French tries, Griffin at fault for 3 IMO before he was pulled. The one in the 2nd half, he was appalling, poor attempt on Pearce-Paul then even worse trying to get French

Now that I totally agree

Any milking penalties ie diving to the floor should be a red will soon stop it all

Was good to see a scrap without red cards been dished out its supposed to be RUGBY LEAGUE NOT NETBALL

Result that was probably expected, but it still doesn’t make it easy to take. A big reality check for the lads and particularly the young ones. Which in hindsight might not be a bad thing, keeps them grounded and shows they’ve got hard work to put in to reach the top.

Almost feel sorry watching griffin chasing shadows for 80 minutes, sadly the injury has ruined him, genuinely think he’s done at this level at both centre or 2nd row.

Huge game against Cas which imo will define our season. We should have a few back however losing tag and Satae tonight is far from ideal

I’ve said it before, Huddersfield are so yawningly boring, process process win nowt, another excellent Australian Luke Yates, galvanises them. Whilst Welsby has the magical abilities of a modern day Ben Barba, there something in this performance par excellence, what who knows, desire, ability, something in the coffee.

Top metre makers per team

Gales 95
Vulikijapano 79
McIntosh 75
Walker 74
Taylor 74

Field 257
Marshalll 198
French 149
Smithies 136
Farrell 125

"I don't think there's any major issues we need to highlight" says Hodgson. Surely conceding 60 points twice in the last 3 games is a major issue that needs highlighting...injuries or no injuries. Even Toulouse haven't conceded 60 in a single game

With a nights remove from the result I'm struggling to get too worked up over the result.
It easy to forget that earlier in the season with pretty much a full side to pick from we nearly beat Wigan and then did actually beat them.

Last night we had half the squad in the stands, the ones left are mostly young kids, recent acquisitions and players in their twilight years. Add to that losing our best non-kid/old man player early on coupled with Wigan being in red hot form currently.

Yes, 60-0 isn't a good look but its understandable in the context and not nearly as bad as the Leeds game imo.
It gets a massive a shrug from me and I'll move onto the Cas game which we have a realistic chance of winning.