This is a masterclass exhibition.

Meet my friend - Beer!

44-0

44-0, lovely

48-0, oh this is awesome

48-0, the half century beckons.

... and there it is.

50-0

Oh well, chance for revenge in a couple of weeks.

50-0, thats more like it

Haha and we are in again 54-0.

... and another try. 54-0. Oh dear JM.

Sky are getting bored with this game, showing close ups of the Sky team

This game is that one-sided that SKY are now giving us a profile of their backroom staff, right down to Stevo's make-up lady!

Well done Saints.

That is very, very sweet.

Brilliant all-round display.

I hope that has tired them out for next week...

The random draw unfortunately produced some very one-sided, unexciting games.

He's asked no one, he's just a sniping gobe who never backs up anything he says. I've already pointed out that Manchester City Council (Labour controlled by the way) backed England RU coming to Old Trafford and also tied it in with schools. They have RU development officers in the city. They brought other events like the City Games on board and the Great Manchester Run.

RL really needs to get a solid presence in the city. It is smack in the middle of our heartlands, but like Stockport and Bolton and Tameside there is neglgible RL played there. Even towns like Rochdale and Oldham and Swinton are struggling to keep the game alive. What better way to ensure the game stays strong other than protect and expand in it's core area?

He clearly had no idea the council owns the COM and only lease it to City. Clearly didn't think of all the events staged at the stadium regards the pitch. Cannot say what damage RL does to a pitch. Basically a plank who tries to shout down and bully anyone into submission. A total gobe mouthing of because he has an inflated idea of his ill thought out and baseless opinions.

The stadium, which is a super venue, is dead easy to get to from both Victoria and Piccadilly stations and is well served by public transport.

Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester....then where next?? One thing is for sure the crowds over the two days this year show that the concept in it's current location is not that popular. 26,000 on the Saturday and 25,000 on the Sunday show that numbers travelling are shrinking significantly.

Bring it home, build the event up again, build North West region up and maybe then look at going elsewhere in future.

End of May Bank holiday, no competing events, stadium is free, derby games, a festival of rugby league that fans can afford, get it done!!

And that was a change from derbys?

St Helens what a great display.

Soliola, Gidley, Wilkin, Faasavalu, Wheeler and Lomax all out, yet we still wipe the floor with a top 6 contestent!!

All you neutral fans can call us all you want (you're in transition blah, blah, *ng blah) We're still one of the team to beat. We have been trhe best team for 14 years and for me we still are!!!

I love you lads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your having a laugh aren't you.

We have loads of injuries, the Rhinos had injuries and had the whole rugby league world bleating on about it. We have a load of injuries and score over 50 points against Hull KR, and nil them.

Love it

Why ? Nobody in SL have been consistent as Saints since 1996.

when we got hammerd by Hull in the first game of the season, we had Hull fans come on to our forum and tell us how we were unlucky and not be harsh on our team because we're in transition and we're not the team we used to be.

Neautral fans go on about how good the Wigan and Leeds young lads are, yet never a mention of the juniors that St Helens produce. We had our 2nd and 3rd centre - Wing partnership out today (Wheeler, Lomax, Gidley, Meli) yet the likes of Tom Armstrong (who lookes a 100 times better than Stefan Marsh from Wigan who the Sky Commentators bigged up) stepped up to the plate. All i've heard all seasonis how St Helens RL is doomed etc.... Well guess what.... FU**CK you!!!

We will still fight with everything we have. We had 2 overseas players in our team today yet wet tonked a decent Hull KR tea, I'm proud as punch and i'm love our lads.

We'll ignore the keyboard warrior cr@p hey...



What has the colour of the council got to do with it



Both stadiums have had plenty of opportunity to host RL games, major RL games too, Old Trafford has only held the GF for years and CoM has held a single game, hardly putting out the welcome mat.



Like a Super League side?



I am well aware of the set up thanks.



See above.



You need to think about the damage it could do, we've been lucky with the weather the last two years, a weekend of solid rain would make a mess of any pitch, you think that clubs who have maintained their pitches properly, let them settle in and carefully managed their use would like a risk that that? Seriously?



If you can't handle it without the insults, give up.



Yup, I've been when it hosted the games, as a footy stadium and for the single RL game there, they are hardly opening the doors to RL though.



The crowd of 52k+ was down by what on last year? 6k? Not a bad turnout considering a number of factors going against it and nowhere near what some doom mongers were hoping for.





Where might home be?



Unless you count the footy play offs that is...

what was totoal crowd for both days?