Let them. It's a Saints vs Wigan derby. People go to war for less

Gotta say after all the excitement passes we really had some dodgy plays during the game. Our last tackle option was bloody awefull alot of the time and we looked quite disjoined at times in attack. Superb effort in defence though and I think James Graham was immense.

It didn't bother me per say but come on they are kids

Agreed. The tackle by Puletua and Graham on Leuluai behind the in goal gave us the momentus imo. It was a poor kick from Eastmond but Puletua and Graham went flying into the tackle. It kept the pressure on Wigan.

Well done, absolutely gutted but well done.

best derby in years

It would be great if Cameron Phelps had an English grand-parent.

Shelled that bomb in the 2nd half but outside of that another fine game.

The most improvment I think i've ever seen in a player in such a short period of time from Phelps.

He looked a dodgy Australian utility that brought nothing to the club or the game and now looks like one of superleagues finest in the fullback position.

Cheers. Thanks.

Wouldn't argue with that.

saints last tackle play this year is worst I've ever seen from any team.

I'd love to see the stat for us getting caught with the ball on 6th tackle.

I'd also love to see the stat for trys off kicks against us. I bet it's around 60% of trys we let in are off kicks.

Our wingers have real problems on kicks. And IMO ade is going backwards. He looks slow, stops when he takes it up, can't beat a man.

With the amount of injuries we have in the forwards and no hooker for half the match coupled with the illnesses to TP and Gilmour all week any win would have been acceptable.

But to do it with such a steely performance in defence with a lightweight pack speaks volumes for the attitude and determination of the players.

Thought the likes of Dixon, Emmitt and Ashurst stood up really well.

With the adversity and the confidence of some Wigan fans before the game it made the win all the more sweeter!

On a different note does anyone know why Paleasina wasn't playing last night?

I think a draw would probably have been a fair result. No team deserved to lose.
Great to see the Wigan-Saints derby back as one of the best

Well done to both teams.

COME ON SAINTS

how funny was it, when J Tomkins moved off the mark, got penelised and Phil Clarke got the hump.
did anyone else notice that

Rumour was he was at the pictures with Fielden.

Fantastic game thought, would grace the CC Final.

Poor judgement from Nobby - thought we could beat you with 12 men

I'll probably get slated as I came away with a seemingly different opinion of it, but I thought the game itself was awful. Full of errors and poor plays, and some dreadful refereeing to top it off.

It was tense and exciting because it was so close, but as game of rugby, awful in my opinion.

Rumour has it he was cockle picking with Puletua!

Very happy. To be honest, during the game I thought, due to their go forward in mid field and intense goal line defencelooked betterfor the win but watching it back they had very few chances where they looked like scoring.

Eastmond's a gem, anyone who says he's not an organiser or just feeds of the teams momentum (any more than any other half back) is deluding themselves. He's and out and out first receiver and if anything we're suffering because we're trying to take the pressure off him - they're trying to share the kicking duties out to help him, but all it seems to be doing is making us look clueless on the last tackle.

The kids - take a bow the lot of you. Clough, Dixon, Ashurst, Emmitt, Mossop, Prescott, Flanaghan as well as the star Eastmond and the Tomkins bros. They've all played their part in a great, tough (how many heads we're split tonight?) proper derby match. The new quota restrictions and salary cap regs have shown we can produce kids that are just as good as the aussie journeymen and kolpak stiff that have flooded our ranks of late - and it really makes me smile when derby day is a bunch of 'tellins lads vs a bunch of pie eaters (even if half of them are from warringon).

For me, Emmit looks good enough to take a bench prop spot more regulary, rather than taking all 2nd rowers and pushing clough and tony p up.

When he last played, I compared him to where Bryn is now. Last night I was more convinced. If he develops beyond Bryn, he'll be a superb prop for us for a good few seasons.

he held his own last night. Looks to be carrying bit of puppy fat at moment.

Looks like he had beer belly.

I can assure you, he doesn't!

I see Wigan were using the old tactics of kicking the ball dead to gain some territory.

I HATE to say it but we have to give credit to Wigan for a lot of our failings. Their defence was awesome and with that they put a lot of pressure on the kickers (aided a bit by the ref who let them off-side all night) but a great effort in defence from them.