No Walmsley, Coote, Fages, Knowles, Percival and Roby missing. Apart from Fages they’re all the best in the league in their positions. I’d say that equals the Wire players missing given the quality of those players.

Steve Price is an awful coach, going for 2 at 10-18 was a ridiculous decision. Warrington play completely boring rugby and under Price they will win nothing.

They decided to brick a Saints supporters coach instead.

3-0 to saints with the biggest game of the season between the two coming up soon. Just like last season and we all know what happened then. Asruuu108 will have to go into hiding when it happens again in 2 weeks. If they say they're not worried, they're lying.

Right call I thought. Took it from 2 scores to 1.

Warrington won’t win a Grand Final until they can find the right balance of aggression and composure. They were too aggressive tonight and seemed focussed more on putting big hits in than on playing RL.

That proves you haven’t a clue about the game.

50/50 call for me, yes it got them back to within one score but they had Saints under pressure at the time.
If they'd have took a chance and managed to get a try, who knows???

To get within 6 is always the right option for me. Plus, we needed a minute to catch our breath! With the team we had out and losing 3 interchanges I was very proud of wire tonight. Bring on Wembley!!

Not saying we will win (I'm not an RL Fans planted Troll who knows the result before the match is played) what I do know is we have hammered them twice this season both times away, and that was supposedly when there were two good teams and then the rest.

It's a tough call but the form they are in there is every possibility they might not make the five.

Can you send me a link to those photos?

I just saw photos of the damage to the bus, but not the people who did it.

Pretty much agree. Warrington need to be firing but they're a good enough side to do exactly that.

Yeah fair point, I can see it both ways. I certainly don’t see it as a terrible or game defining call.
Wire’s inability to be composed with the ball was a far bigger issue.

I still get the feeling Saints have a soft underbelly. Last year in both semis they got knocked about and lost, I can see them falling short in the GF run in.

Despite playing their reserves, Wire made a decent fist of this one, arguably better than Saints reserves managed against London the other week.
Having, written the game off before kick off, Price will have slept well last night.

However, Warrington are dropping to many points at the moment and could be down to 3rd after the weekend.
Although Saints are miles ahead in the table, the battle for the rest of the top 5 spots will (pardon the pun) go down to the Wire and should Wigan turn them over next week, things will get very tight indeed.

And here's a couple more from me

Warrington gave a decent show of themselves at times but lets be honest, with the league sewn up and a CC final on the horizon, we didnt need to get out of first gear to comfortably see them off with young Jack Welsby completely outplaying Ratchford.

If Warrington dont pick up their form, they could drop out of the 5. I dont think that will happen per se, but its a distinct possibility given how poor they have become since June.

I didn't expect the saints to put so much effort into wining this game, in saying that it was the young players in the squad who stepped up to contribute to the win. Couldn't understand the "love in" by the Sky team rabbiting on about playing 2 17 year olds whilst at the same time playing some over the hill players in Smith, Burrell and Westwood.

Yet saints just tap into the Academy team and play the likes of Welsby, Costello ,Richardson, Lees, Smith, Bentley and Ashworth and all those young players were the ones who stood out last night.

Why not travel from where you’re really from then instead of pretending to have to go from Carcassone?

Was a poor game. Loop fixtures do nothing for be sport. Going into this and next week’s games I’m thinking “are we playing these again?!” Come October we could have faced Wigan and Saints six times this season, we really don’t need to face each other an extra time in these loop fixtures... anyway that’s a different matter.

Some good performances from both teams, some poor ones for Wire. Thought Ratchford Livett Murdoch-Masilla and Akouala did well, thought Westwood was so bad I’d never play him again!

Saints played with more intensity, that’s why they’re so far away at the top. They don’t particularly do anything special, they just run harder and pass with better timing than everyone else.

Some sensible remarks there but given Ratchford set up both of Wire's tries and was our biggest threat all night you have got it wrong over who was the best fullback on the night.

Though both fullbacks played well.
Ratchford is a class act, have always rated him as a lovely player.

That's the most honest thing you have ever said on here