Some odd ones from a well known sports internet site:



Can't believe Flannery and Wilkin got better scores than TP, Soliola and Foster.

Lomax joint highest rating.

. He got well dicked down that left hand side in That first 20 mins.

I don't agree with a few of them.

a 3 for all of them

TP was stifled very well, he got nothing through.

Soliola should get a 4 for me. He set the ball rolling with his ridiculous offload attempt on our 30 that led to their first try and he needlessly conceeded the penalty that led to their second.

He did a superb save on a try and did his best with Meli who wasn't engaging in defence. I was at the corner where the tries came through. Lomax was not the issue. He gave a good account of himself. Has he ever played centre before?

He was nowhere, but that's not the first time.


Well, he wasn't the only one to do that! I think we gave away 10 penalties? Or was it more of a horror show than that? I dunno. I left with five minutes to go.

I thought Tony P was one of our best going forward last night alongside Roby.

felt sorry for jonny lomax in his first grand final his coach plays him in an unformiliar position and he struggled with his defending but hes a great young player who will get better and better.foster for me was a little bit shy and nervous took a great catch in the air but other than that i counted him making 3 carries i think and thats not good enough at the top level.

I didn't notice Tony P at all last night but I did notice Roby. He zapped things up when he came on. I'm looking forward to seeing him play under a different coach next season.

As for the young guys, I think they were terrific. It was our experienced players who let us down. Again.

I thought most of our overseas signings were well below par, but that was probably down to the Wigoons containment defence. The only saints player worth a mention would probably be Roby.

Paul Wellens: 8: The only vet to stand up in this game.
Jamie Foster: 7 Did all that could have been expected of him.
Matt Gidley: 5 Didnt get involved until it was too late, ineffective.
Francis Meli: 6 Lively preformance but did look confused in defense.
Jonny Lomax: 6 Tried hard but was not able to have a big influence on the game, except for his try saving tackle on Leuleui.
Jon Wilkin: 6 busy in attack but made errors.
Matty Smith: 6 Tried hard but made some poor decisions and kicked poorly in the first half. It is easy to forget he is still a young man. "A" for effort
James Graham: 8 worked hard on his own in the front row. Didn't get going until late in the game.
Keiron Cunningham: 5 cannot remember him doing much. Sad end to a legend.
Bryn Hargreaves: 5. No go forward but he did as well as he could.
Sia Soliola: 5 looked out of shape in the first 20 mins and made mistakes that resulted in wigan tries but ran hard.
Chris Flannery: 4 exposed three times in defence resulting in 2 tries (saved once by Lomax)
Tony Puletua: 8 ran strong.
Subs:
James Roby: 8 changed the game and gave us a cutting edge Cunningham failed to give us.
Paul Clough: 6. Worked hard but I cannot remember anything he did.
Andrew Dixon: 7. played well when came on and ran a good line for his try.
Jacob Emmitt: 6 did a good shift when Graham was off.

I agree, he was the only forward that wasn't stopped in tha tracks as soon as wigan hit them.

Lomax (and meli) got taken apart big time on our left but lomax looked ok with the ball in hand, don't forget he's not played for about a month and imo shouldn't have played for that reason.

Wilkin should have got a big fat 0, because he's crap.

they are better ratings, Roby, Foster and Graham were your best I thought.

Graham tried hard and kept going but your pack smashed him every time.

because he was the only one who showed up.

Maybe but it was when you moved the ball to our left that won the game.

It's not often jammer gets owned like he did last night so can't be to harsh on him.

Owned wait till the Aussies get hold of him.

"Owned"

Are you 12?

11 TEEN.

Roby and Tony P were the top yardage makers in the match after Tomkins.

Maybe he was hiding that much the Wigan defence didn't notice when he snuck past them?

I thought Tony P had a terrible game on Saturday (along with most of the team, obviously).

I didn't think we were as bad as people are making out, but Wigan were exceptional and never allowed us into the game.

We were missing our two first choice half backs and played like we did. Missing Eastmond and Pryce cannot be underestimated, whilst I do not think it would have guaranteed a win, we'd have been in with a chance of winning with five minutes left IMO. The pack was fighting a losing battle because of this, with Wigan picking up possession in far better positions than we did and there was also us making mistakes that cost us, and handed them, tries.

I know you have a bit of a thing for him, but Smith for me showed why we were correct in letting him go. He had an very good game against Wire, but was little better than average against Huddersfield and was worse on Saturday. His kicking game was poor and he offered nothing with ball in hand. We looked better when Lomax moved more centrally and Roby came on as we finally gave their defence something to think about.

Wigan's defence was intense, and we didn't have the players to stretch that, they did in Tomkins at full back and while we were reduced to one on one tackles allowing them to get quick ptb, they were getting 3 men into each tackle.

Take two of Tomkins and Leuluai or Deacon out of their side and it would have been far closer.