They were alright. Makinson made a 2@ of himself but other than that I thought they were decent.

Haven't listened to the player interviews but had no probs with saints fans before, during or after the game. Ones near us were shaking hands and went out of their way to applaud our players.

In terms of comparing eras, yes I think it's difficult overall, but the game hasn't really changed much in the last 10 to 12 years from a tactical or technical point of you. Wrestling to slow down the ruck has been the primary defensive tactic and the introduction highly structured attack with the FB as an extra pivot has been the primary attacking tactic for over a decade now. Whereas, if you look at the 2000s compared to the 90s, the game is almost unrecognisable.

Fair dos im probably getting my opinion from looking at twitter too much, and being a bit grumpy

All the fans I met were perfectly fine and friendly and we just talked like normal people. Best team won. Leeds had terrible game plan, saints fans deserve their victory and enjoyment.

In terms of Saints they as a club are the best over the SL era. They have consistently been in the playoffs, usually top 2 and have more silverware than anyone. A real credit to the league. As far as the current team, I don't think it's as good as previous versions, but with the quality in SL declining they've managed it better than everyone. You can only beat what's in front of you

Wasn't really but the best team won

Aye. I heard someone say they were now going for 5 in a row but I thought they already had that!

1 Match ban for dangerous contact in the GF - you couldn't make it up!

When's the appeal??

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday if needed

oh just let us know when you can make it Morgan and Kristian

Great post this - thought your fans were magnificent throughout.

Who did he make dangerous contact with?
Looks like he`s playing for the Knights in their friendly then.
Or maybe they will ask if he can turn out for us against NZ as a gesture of goodwill.

You couldn’t write it

He knocked someone over just after they passed the ball, might have been Martin or Bentley. A nothing incident in a sea of nothing incidents, but I guess they felt they had to given the events of last week.

Credit to saints they have turned things around after the Cunningham debacle. They are the finished product, we are still work in progress. In such a high intensity game we don’t have the strength in depth saints have. Still it was an enjoyable end to the season, with the wins at Catalan and Wigan a bonus after the early season disaster.
Not certain about the squad for next season, however we should be around the top 4. Suspect Warrington will be strong next season .

Which would make it even more ridiculous.
The MRP sign off the season with yet another emabarassing head scratcher.

Car crash viewing if they're not.

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Every offence Saints commit is 'a nothing incident'.

Knowles is lucky he didn’t get picked up for two shoulder charges either.

The irony over on the social media sites is bordering on hilarious over the Martin tackle on Lomax. Many are the same names that applauded Welsby’s shot only last week, yet they want a four match ban for Martin’s 'near neck breaker'.
At no point were his legs above the horizontal position, and I’m almost certain Moore wasn’t going to blow up until Welsby and that cockney idiot ran in carrying on.

He wasn't banned when he should have, thats all that matters!!

Was this picked up by 6again moore

Quite. If you look at the volume of bans (I think we're level top now, but with fewer games because most of ours are 1-2) and the range of bans they are always at the bottom ends of the scale. I think the worst ban we got this season was 3 for Mata'utia grabbing the collar of a player clearly faking an injury, although I understand why those have to be given. For all the hype this week and the campaign by Sky to get as many banned as possible, Saints are not a dirty side. There are no dirty players in that team. Saints haven't put a bad tackle in this season, not one. If you look at the Tetavano hit on Hurrell as an example of a bad tackle, there's been nothing anywhere near that. It's a shame the hype around the final descended to where it did and all being about Knowles, but in isolation that is simply not worthy of a ban. But that is where the MRP being so trigger happy leads us to, everyone spends the games making notes on who they want to demand gets banned. Lets go back to banning the dangerous ones.



I've watched it back three times now and I don't have a clue where any of those are. That shows how minor they were. Blake Austin also got away with two or three high shots and Martin's kick at Hurrell could have been looked at too, but we could be here all night with a contact sport like RL.



That one wasn't a ban, but you're always going to concede a penalty for that because of how spectacular the fall was. Live, everyone around us was saying red, a couple of Leeds fans saying it was definitely over now as he'd definitely get sent. Then they showed the replay and everyone forgot about it. His legs went almost vertical so it looks bad even though the contact with the ground was level and therefore legal. The only thing I'd question in that is control, I'm not sure Martin has any control over where he lands, but I'm happy with no ban.

It's interesting too that Myler got told off twice for faking impacts. The sport really needs to get a grip of that, it's becoming more and more like the Premier League by the week.

He gave you a penalty for it, such as you'd expect from a quality ref like Moore. He was brilliant again wasn't he, no controversy in the game at all and kept control of it superbly. It was like he wasn't even there and the game just flowed. Apart from the when the headset thing broke. I'm a firm believer in cracking on when that happens, going old school and using the flag and hand signals to attract the refs attention.