RoyceSimmons Twitter (fake or not this made me LOL)

Have been making perry run while eating. Its reduced his gravy intake dramatically #roycetastic

If you hate rugby league so much then why not go and watch your dull, boring, girls blouse game of soccer and leave us in peace to discuss rugby league, the best team sport humankind ever invented?

Whoever is doing that comes out with some genius lines at times.

I get excited for friendlies. Maybe you're just not a very good supporter anymore.

Goodbye then, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Oohhhh.... The pithy irony... It burns, it burns.....



Good to see that the knee-jerk reactionaries have some presence on these boards and aren't all just confined to RedVee. It's nice to have a balance...

Who says I hate Rugby League? Don't be so patently bloody ridiculous. I love Rugby League more than any other sport. Even given the tedious 5 barge/kick/repeat debacle we have most of the time these days. I love Saints 1000 times more than I ever could any other team in any other sport. Come the playoffs and Challenge Cup I'll be jumping up and down, singing and shouting abuse at officials in a way that I'll never be able to generate the degree of passion required to at Diamonds or MK or wherever else. I've happily sat on delayed trains for 6 hours to get to Saints games in the past. I've done 300 mile journeys through 6 inch deep snow to get to games and never regretted it. I've waded half-way across the country through horizontal wind and rain to see 15 minutes of a cancelled game and been happy to have done so. How dare anyone ever question my passion and fan credentials frankly... But those games all mattered and were worth the effort to be a part of. SL games now don't and aren't. I can't on any level justify 5 hour round-trips through Friday afternoon/evening rush-hour traffic to watch some soulless dead rubber against the likes of Salford (or anyone else, frankly), new stadium or otherwise. I will however still fight through hell and high water to be there just like in days of old come the games that still do matter. Sadly there are so precious few of them these days...

Again, whatever... If you good folks want to delude yourselves that being near the top of the league right now is important in setting us up for the rest of the season then you go right on ahead and be excited about it - I'm not stopping you, honestly. Just don't shout abuse my way in such a distastefully "Other Saints Board"-like fashion for the heresy of daring to reveal and challenge the RL's New Clothes and we'll all be happy.

Just don't come crying to me the next time someone from 5th or 6th becomes "Champions" and makes us look a laughing stock again. Or when Sky's next brilliant idea has SL teams all playing in giant foam rubber boots and clown costumes for added "entertainment" value...



See above. Try RedVee - you'd love it there, really...

I really don't get it Northampton, the playoffs have been with us for some years now. I'm not a fan of the playoffs but it makes a game no less meaning full.

A league system has it's flaws in that once half the season is gone those further down than 4th cannot make top spot and so alot of the meaning in their games also goes. Lets face it no team has 5th spot as their glory target.

Not even MK dons. I'm sure it's more a means to an end for MK dons, ie for them to get into the playoffs, but then that would make the rest of the season meaningless wouldn't it???????

Exactly. Complete and utter myth that the competition was packed with meaningful games under first past the post.

These posts are way way to long! You need a a full day to read them.

Oh, I'm bored of debating the same points now frankly... In precis: Top 5 system rewarded top teams significantly, made league games worthwhile... Top 8 does neither.... Only 3 or 4 mediocre mid-table teams pushing for 8th have anything to play for for 27 games anymore, completely -about from what should by any form of reasonable logic be the case... Yadda, yadda, yadda etc.

And if you think it's a good idea to completely wipe out and ignore all achievements made by all teams in the competition over the previous 85% of the season up to that point to then artificially bring all the mediocre teams back to the party to keep them and their fans interested and forking out for their Sky subscriptions, then I just can't debate with you anyway as my mind will just not stretch to seeing any kind of debatable sense in that kind of logic, sorry.

Anyway as I say - wait until the next time (it won't be long I promise you) we have laughing stock "champions" lucking out on the timing of their fitness/form and stealing it all at O/T and then come back to me with whether you think it's still a good idea, eh?

Sorry - my bad...

Me no like playoffs - make league boring, innit?

That better for you?

Much better thank you.

I can see where you are coming from in the above, the worst scenario some team much closer to the bottom of the league in league points still managing to finish 8th, going in to the play offs and finishing champions.
But we,ve got to accept it we have 2 phases of Superleague, the first phase being 27 rounds to qualification and the 2nd phase the play off themselves.
The RFL have accepted fewer intensity games for commercial gain with sky, again we,ve got to accept it to maintain full time professionalism.
Enjoy your rugby with Saints, win or lose, most supporters on here do, in whatever disguise it is presented.

I think Perry needs to be more angry at the point of collision, he is a big lad who could easily dominate some other props in the league with his size and power.

That said, last year was a write off, give him a chance thought its only been 2 games!

My thoughts are this time last year many were saying the exact same things about soliola following his best part of a season missed.

He adds a lot of bulk to the back