I don't have a problem with refs getting it wrong in the heat of the moment. The offside rule needs to be made simple so that players and refs and fans understand it: a kicker can play everyone on side.

It's the video refs that make me despair. It seemed so obvious that Gidley was short but it never entered his head, and the Saints no-try was beyond understanding. They are watching what we are watching but see things no one else does. I sometimes wonder if they watch for the players reaction, and the Saints player wasn't exactly celebrating.

that is the most embarrassing post I have EVER read on these forums...congrats. You are a total muppet mate.

I can handle the Lyneham try, none of the players reacted, I fully understand why it was given, what did my head in was the blatant knock on in the set of 6 before that when Thaler saw it and actually put the whistle to his mouth but decided to ignore it.

Another keyboard warrior. Superb trolling. Keep it up.

Regarding the Lineham try I don't think the ref can be blamed. Stood at that end last night I didn't hear one Saints supporter complain of a no try.

Diddums.

They know they didn't get a clean kill last night, hence the idiotic trolling and somehow trying to justify awful decisions. Whether they like it or not, the whole rugby league community knows that wasn't right last night. It's frustrating that instead of everyone talking about a great Warrington performance, they're talking about how it was incompetent officiating that has got them a place in the final.

Troll all you like. If you can win next week, you might just overtake Widnes as the most successful club in Cheshire.

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And picture evidence has showed that Lineham never actually lost the ball


Like he ignored all the Saints' flops and not standing square and offsides all game

I guess as Saints fans we are all supporting Hull through to the Final.

Can't support Wigan and Warrington well the fans are not exactly endearing.

Endearing , you don't know the meaning of the word. Sour grapes springs to mind. Eddie Jennings never got the final he wanted

Do you have every Saints thread on alert?

Don't be so paranoid. Why would it be sour grapes . I think we expected the lose.

The game changer was Luke Walsh not kicking on 5th and us turning the ball over, then giving a pen away which leads to a try.

Instead of Warrington bringing the ball back out of their own 20 meter zone, they was in ours.

The whole momentum of the game changed when Walsh failed to kick and put us under pressure.

Crazy thing is, we was kicking all night on 3rd and 4th tackle but tried to run it on 5th!

Yes the video ref probably got the call wrong and Lineham probably didn't score but let's not use that as a excuse as our attack was utter rubbish again. One up rugby again and kicking all the time. It's like watching union.

The end of the day, it was our boring no thrills one up rugby that cost us.

The nightmare is it doesn't look like changing anytime soon. With Walsh gone it has every chance of getting worse.

mines a bitter please

mines a bitter please

We've struggled in the halves for about 5 years at this club. We need two settled halves that have the right balance.

We thought Walsh was the answer but his horrific injury put that to bed as we wouid all agree, he's never been the same since.

Travis Burns looked like the final piece in the puzzle but that didn't work either as him and Walsh didn't have the right balance we thought it would. I think Burns lost that yard of pace in his first pre season with us and that killed him.

We've had make shift halves for far to long. We've had Wilkin, Wello, Flanagan, fages, Turner, Walsh etc over the last few years.

Imo our pack is decent and Douglas will add to a good set of props with amor, Walmsley, Thompson and Richards as back up. We defo lack backrow.

your bleating just makes it all the sweeter. Carry on cockle.

61 years mate. No wonder you lot come on here gloating. Not had that much to shout about in your time.

I don't see the link between Warrington and the referee's performance. The ref was incredibly bad, making several crucial decisions and getting them all wrong. This was then compounded by the video referee making another mistake. But none of that is Warrington's fault and I personally hope they win the final. I don't want to see Benny Flower parading round OT, with the muppets on Sky proclaiming some heroic redemption story.

Correct. I don't have a problem with Warrington like a lot of other Saints fans seem to have.

Nobody blamed Warrington. People blamed the officials, and when we all calmed down a bit, we blamed our negative, grind the opposition down tactics.

What's happened on this board is a load of opposition fans gloating and a few of us (I put myself in that bracket) giving it right back. That's what happens on forums, in the stands, in pub, in work etc.

As a neutral who dislikes both clubs, I think defence will win the day and Wigan will snuff them out on Sat.

There are loads of 'I hope Wigan stuff em' comments on here, redvee, fb and twitter.



I think Warrington will win comfortably. Wane is leaving Wigan if the rumours are true and I don't see them putting up much of a fight withouth O'Loughlin and McIllorum.