The annoying thing for me about Turner is his constant effort at feigning as if he is going to side step. He appears to lift a leg every time he approaches the opposition when he has ball in hand. This loses momentum and it should be coached out of him.
He should concentrate on either running harder directly at the opposition and increase the chance of breaking the line or attempt to run directly around them. Hull in particular last night must have been able to read him like a book.

As always, an injection of perspective is needed. There's a long, long, long way to go yet and it simply doesn't matter how we're playing at the moment all things considered - frankly I'd be a lot more worried about our chances if we were smashing teams easily every week right now... We were always going to have a bit of a slow start to the season with our young backline and lack of any experience in the halves and they all have plenty of time yet to start to click together. I will start worrying about our form a bit if we still suck come June/July and not before. Chill dudes...

It's that sort of "Oh, it'll all come right in the end" attitude, which has led to Saints sleepwalking into mediocrity.

Ever considered that is because just at the moment we might actually be a mid table team? I say 'at the moment' because we may come good as the season progresses or we may not; we may need to shed a few old stagers (actually we DO need to shed a few old stagers) and give the young guns time and consistency on the pitch (something they haven't had). The latter may lead to us having to wait another season or two before we can seriously believe we are contenders.

Personally, I think we are missing a good winger on Meli's side (because Meli is a liability), a pacey fullback and some forwards who make yards in the manner of Walmsley. We also need to replace James Graham's leadership as there isn't a single player in our team capable and/or willing to take the lead. If we made those changes I think we would be heading up the table already.

But its true though,due to the stupid way playoffs are now you can be poor a lot of the time but still be able to compete at the important timeof the year.

Pretty much agree with all this,some people need to go at the end of the year.We need a no nonsense prop ( 2 would be better ) that will do the hard yards and drive it in at pace and not from 2 steps behind the ruck.Meli takes a lot of stick and yes he should be leaving at the end of the year,but he isnt as bad as people make him out to be.One man in the crowd last night went mental at him because Lafranchi kicked the ball,i know hes a scapegoat at times but that was sureal.