Made that point before the start of the season and was slagged to bits for it.

Stuck with him for another year as well.

Was a fair call, I was a bit dubious to it, but I hoped he would do well. Thus far, his organisation and kicking game looks pish poor and his defence, jeeeeez. Our best games have come with BJ and Sammut and I hope we get back to that when Sammut is fit because ATM, Luke Gale just isn't doing it right.

Pryce was getting hammered by the bcb commentators
Was he really as bad tonight as they made out?

We don't have to play him though.



That BCB fella is forever giving him jip.

Its not an excuse just an observation. I did say in an earlier post it is embarrassing.

I agree with that. Gale is not doing it for me, some nice touches but drifts in and out of the game and his defence is awful.

Jeffries at 7 and Sammut at 6 have been our best combo half backs IMO.

Yeah we don't, but then we will have our first choice 7 on the bench and with Sammut possibly going next year there's no way it's going to happen unfortunately.

Utterly dreadful. Still in the 8 though. Got a feeling our points difference is going to cost us come the end of the season.

He doesn't have to be our first choice 7 though, just because he wears that shirt. I imagine Potter will be likely to stick with him though. I expect him to play exactly the same with either BJ or Sammut though because his role won't change. Disappointment.

Yeah I'm well aware mate, I wouldn't have him in the team but I'm just saying I can't see it happening when Potter bought him as our first choice 7.

I got called harsh for saying he isn't good enough on here, it appears I'm certainly not the only one thinking it.

From Sky Sports, Mick Potter had this to say.

[i"I don't want to discredit St Helens because they were outstanding," said Potter.

"We weren't up to it and were unable to withstand the pressure. Saints did not want to give away field position and had an excellent kicking game.

"The guys are disappointed because they know they didn't perform well and need to do better.

"I know the players can do better than they did tonight. We have a fortnight's break but could do with a four-week break to get some of our injured players back."[/i

I don't know where you got that impression from. He split them virtually every time.

Every kick does that with Saints as unless you hit it directly at Paul Wellens, it's several minutes before he'll arrive at the ball.

On average this year we lose each game by four and a half points. Done well to get to ten games to go with a 50:50 record. Now need to win all our home games and maybe at Huddersfield and/or Leeds to be sure of 8th or better. Big ask.

Well there wasn't a lot to take away from this game if you're a Bulls fan. We were truly woeful and were never in the contest. Our forwards struggled to make ground and just could not contain the Saints pack.

Potter tried to tighten up a weak right side by moving Whitehead to centre with Ainscough to FB to cover for the loss of Kearney, but it didn't really make any difference.

Quite why Gale opted to kick off or drop out straight to Wellens who probably has the safest hands on the field I'll never know. Still making too many needless errors like not making touch from a penalty and errors early in the tackle count. Almost every penalty we gave away resulted in a try to Saints, we just cannot afford to gift teams such position.

To be fair to this team it is the first time in quite a while where we have been totally outplayed in a SL game. I spoke at the start of the week of my fear that the injuries might eventually catch up with this side.. I think tonight that they finally did. That doesn't really excuse the manner of defeat though and the total lack of anything for the loyal supporters to shout about. I'm struggling to remember a quality Bulls attack all night and we never really looked like scoring.


On the plus side I reckon the Saints will have a decent little stadium there once they finish building it.

Never going to work was it, Whitehead isn't really a strong defender. Would have been better putting Langley there and starting Manase.

Nope, Whitehead is guilty of slipping off tackles and I think he struggles to cope against an agile centre.

Hmm. I wonder for those Bulls fans who visited our super dooper new stadium whether they would agree with you or with me after tonight?

For a multimillion pound brand new stadium it was terrible to be there tonight, and my team won.

I couldnt understand why they missed the sides off? Lol .. Great atmosphere from our fans despite what we were watching, but the rain /wind was everywhere. You would think spending so much money on the stadium, a bit of plastic on the sides would have been money well spent. Needed wellies on queuing for food tonight!. Potential to be a very nice stadium though.

You ask the same question most Saints fans are asking! It is a complete mystery to all of us why the sides were not clad. There was some discussion about doing it following the first swim around the concourse but nothing happened. A shame really as the lack of protection really spoils the experience.

I thought your fans were great. It was an horrendous night to travel the M62, your team were clearly still in Bradford and yet I didn't see any of you leave early and you kept on singing. You all did a great job.

Little bit worried about mr gale

Maybe they'll do it in the off season??

I think after these last few months there's far worse could happen to us than getting a bit of a thrashing.. On the whole we've had a fairly good season. At the moment there's nothing we can do but support the club & enjoy the rugby ( or lack of it from tonight )

He didnt look very interested tonight & didnt seem to organise very well..

I think some of you on here need your eyes testing. Except 2 or 3 kicks Gale split the Fullback and Winger everytime, it was Addy from hooker who kicked it directly at Wellens/Makinson.

I think Gale needs to sort his kick off out though, absolute e. I'm starting to miss Ah Van's kickoffs.

Whitehead is not a centre, he can fill in against 'lower' teams but as you can see with most of his decision making he is not a centre, keep him in the back row.

Im getting sick of us kicking high all the time on the 5th, why not try a chipkick or a grubber into the in goal area, don't rely on Pryce or Whitehead scoring from kicks.

Also what happened to tackling low?