WTF



He's been absolutely appalling tonight. Everything he has done has been poorly executed. He's playing like a kid who is playing the game for the first time. He's got no pace at all, he cannot catch a ball and his defense is shocking. He's on the wing because no one would trust him at fullback. Looking at his wing play, he's no winger either. His bombing of the try late on before LMS's joke try was symptomatic of a player who simply doesn't know what he's doing.

Dawson can have his shirt for the rest of this season while Swift goes out on loan for me.

Good pass from Adam to Turner for his try at the end

I'm not writing him off but people was calling him to be our next fullback!


He wasn't the only player poor tonight. Travis Burns was awful. The pack went missing.

He is a terrible Rugby League player, he is awful. Up there with he Kevin Penny from 5 years ago. Makes the wrong decision 9 out of 10 times whether that be in defence or in attack. That break at the end was the worst decision i have ever seen from a RL player be that at professional or amateur level. 3 Men on his inside, Hull KR given up the chase and he attempts that ? Send him to Rochdale for a month.

Problem with th epack is that they're doing too much because of how weak our backs are. Making mistakes and not doing enough returning the ball, even at the other end our forwards are the go to men. Our backs are a disgrace and we wont win a big final with the lot we have (against 13 men).

Travis Burns....... i dont have the energy type about his performance. Lets just say Hull Kr are laughing all the way to the bank.

Did the pack go missing really? I thought Saints battered Hull KR in the forwards for large parts of the game, and they got Saints into some good positions but every one of the Saints backs is unbelievably average, small, slow, and generally unskilled. They offered virtually zero threat near the rovers line.

I'll stick up for the lad.

Yes he had a shocker, and could of been responsible for an 8 point turn around in the score line, but we've stuck with far worse at his age, and they've come good.

He was also the only player running kicks back with any menace at all. Makinson and Hohaia seemed ready to flop as soon as they caught it

Chill , he is a young lad and he had an off day in a team full of off days. We all know he has mistakes in him but tonight was a bit of a mare. He still has more talent than Dawson though who was also terrible

Our pack isn't as good as saints fans think. Some idiot on here keeps banging on how good it is yet was demolished by a make shift robins pack.

Spot on! Look at the way they performed against South Sydney (yes i know different quality) but these backs are so poor its unreal. Not one is international class ( i love Makinson and he will be a St Helens great) but he is too slow and small for international rugby league

Our pack didn't go missing, we had total domination of territory in that game, and time and again our forwards got us within 20.

The link was absolutely dire and we looked clueless on attack. Burns either couldn't see or too busy fighting and Wilkin was invisible. Epitomised with Hohaias lame kick straight into Kelly's hands.

Demolished ? how exactly was it demolished ? we constantly made it in to Rovers half. Not at there best but our forwards where far from the problem tonight

Correct, we have relied on our forwards and tonight it has caught up with us. Our lack of pace in the backs is worrying.

Bad 80 in all areas for the lad but if he scores the winner next week it'll all be forgotten.

Plenty of others were absent tonight, in particular Flanagan.

Don't agree at all mate. We didn't get demolished in the forwards. Territory in the first half was ridiculously in our favour. We gifted them their points.

We made a lot of uncharacteristic errors tonight. Our set completion was woeful. But our pack didn't get demolished at all.

We have plenty of pace in the backs. What we don't have is halves who bring them into play.

I don't think the pack did well enough given the size advantage and their complete lack of a bench. But it did do enough for a normal side to win the game. We just cannot do anything from inside the 10, they look lost. So far this season we've been lucky, teams have made mistakes and shot out of the line and we've strolled over several times. That didn't happen tonight. You defend your line well against Saints and you win, it's as simple as that.

If Luke Walsh is fit, he should play next week, the sooner the better. Burns needs him and can then go back to his natural game.

Demolished? Nah, I thought Rovers did well to stay in the game in the first half, the Saints forwards were gaining territory with ease, however, the halves and the backs looked like they couldn't create anything. Yes, Rovers were committed but Saints really were toothless in attack.

Other than Walmsley and Mose in his 2nd spell, none of that pack could break thru a paper bag. We busted up down the middle 3/4 times also.

I was little OTT using demolished to be fair. I think we should have really hurt them down the middle considering they have more or less all the props out.

After all, it's the best pack ever to play super league isn't it ?

I definitely expected better mate I'd agree with that.

Very poor across the board tonight.

Spot on.

Thing is our forwards are work manlike and gain ground (which they did constantly) we dont have a Sam Burgess etc.. who will make constantly make breaks and be a threat. Our forwards did there job imo. The backs need to go.

If Burns doesn't Fire we look poor in attack. We Defo need walsh back ASAP.

It's not even the best pack Saints have had in SL.