Even a dinosaur in ray French can't understand why Royce Simmons has put ade Gardner on the bench and not used him, I still can't believe he's carried on with this idiotic tactic.

The subs have been reduced to 10, we've lost massive work rate of jammer and still have someone sat on the bench doing nothing!

Ray French is wrong, it's Foster's 7th.

We still have TP missing yet so it's hard to tell. I think we will be OK without him

17th man sounds like Lance's perfect role.

Baffling to say the least.If he has doubts over Gardner,why not play Flannery?

Can't think of the last time foster had a good game.

At least Tommy Makinson can catch a ball!

Don't know what you are going on about Saddened Lance has had a decent game.

Full time, 34-24 to Saints.

Full time . Thank god for that. lol

He did it all last year tho and looks to be carrying it on again this year. It's just a strange.

No wonder we rested more than we trained during pre season due to Royce flogging us playing with 16 men all last year.

Sorry but as an outsider looking in Foster has played in a side who have beat a decent London team on their turf, has scored a try and kicked six goals and your bagging him. Can i ask why?

Phew!!!!

I was watching these posts, watching Twitter, and holding my breath for most of that match! I'll be interested to hear what people who attended the match think.

I would never bag him. Some people on here always have to have a scapegoat etc.

He did score a try, but it was a walk in. He did well with his conversion which he always does. Other than that though, he was awful and cost us 2 tries on his own.

Ray just forgot were Saints will be playing at next week, before finally coming up with THE LANGTREE STADIUM

Not bagging him and without his kicks we'd struggle but IMO the last half of last year, the friendly game and today he's become a liability under the high ball.

Meli got a huge amount of stick for his problems with kicks but foster ain't any better.

In my honest opinion he has got caught up in all his hype and stop performing on the pitch.

Exactly

Not sure if anyone here is posting via mobile device but how anyone can form a judgement on the game or player performances without actually 'seeing' the game is beyond me. And please nobody use the radio commentary as defence as the last 8 pages have gone on about the poor nature of it.

Spoke to mates on the phone who ate there and had txts during the game as well.

He made two mistakes off kicks which resulted in two tries, he dropped 3/4 kicks against Widnes and had trouble in the 2nd half of last season.

He openly admits he's not dealing with kicks.

It's actually very easy to if you listen to more than one source and cross reference them. It helps understanding the game and the players too.

Also accounts from people who are there help.

Apparently Gary Wheeler was injured although whether he played on or what I don't know. Anyone else know?

Also, it seems Royce isn;t happy with our kicking game and thinks we have 'a few areas to work on' which is exactly what I would expect after the first game of the season!

I'd very much like him to work on reorganising that left edge, which is a leaky sieve.

Apparently also LMS played 80 minutes? Can someone confirm that?

Each is entitled to their own opinion but I personally don't believe I can make my own 'informed' decision on today's game or player performances without seeing it with my own eyes. I have mates who are there but even if we stand next to each other every week we have differing views of players & what they did / did not do.

All I'm saying is that without seeing it for yourself then comments will always be open to the subjective nature of other individuals.

Plenty of teams will be beaten by London at the Stoop this year, so I'm just happy we've gt the two points. Sounds like it was a scrappy performance, but on day one of the season in sub-zero temperature that seems fairly understandable.

Absolutely correct, which is why I always make sure I have the opinion of at least 3 sources before judging on any performances I haven't seen.