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Just seen the highlights on Sky Arena

Eddie's bias can easily be heard. A multiple orgasm for the dg that bounced of the bar...oh ho hoooh and his SCREAMING for their [i[uonly[/u[/i try

Oh, and THAT attempt by Barba on Lineham. Hilarious.

Who?

The one who's gone home

Thought that was Tyrone Roberts? Oh wait, he’s here til at least next weekend I think...

Echo that!

Take a bow Justin Holbrook.
Very gracious in defeat.
Less whinging than Wane - even when he says the other side were better and deserved to win theres always an element of 'something' that detracts from his comments

I've waited a few days for the euphoria of Thursday to calm down and for my feet to find terra firma before commenting on the match.

My take -
We won despite being under the kosh for long periods. It was our resilience in defence that won it.
To keep Saints to one try was top draw - even though I think Saints were a little off key. (I'd argue that was as much down to us as them).
Saints should have scored 2 tries after clean breaks but took the wrong option (not to pass).
At other times someone managed to hang on to their top or shorts. (Hughes and Hill in particular did that on a number of ocassions).
Thought Toby King had one of his best games for us and really handled Barba well.
Lineham got the majority of the credits which is a little unfair on others, but those 2 tries took some scoring. He looks so much more assured with Price. And is general involvement was good.

But we need to cut out the stupid mistakes otherwise we will lose on Saturday.
1. Ratch missing the kick off going dead.
2. Ratch not claiming the ball at the kick off ( but apart from these he played really well - and I thought the 'hand in the ruck that gave Saints their 1st 2 points was harsh).
3. Hughes obstructing Lomax (2 points)
4. Philbin late tackle on Richardson (penalty - could have been 2 points and on another day would have been).
5. Westwood tackle /knees incident - penalty, could easily have been a yellow
Basic stuff that'll cost us.

Wigan will be another step up as their defence is exceptionally well drilled and they have excellent structure in attack.
Our attack isn't the best (not enough from the halves).
But I seems to remember we won 23-0 not so long ago with total commitment and desire.

Overall fantastic effort and team performance. We thoroughly deserved to win.

Turning point was the decision to take a penalty to go 3 up to 5 by Saints.
At that point knew 100% we'd win.
To run a try in there would have clinched a win for Saints.

Some great scenes here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doG2zCEWfwU

Some great scenes here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doG2zCEWfwU

Love the kid waving his top over his head near the end

For whatever reason when I heard Fages wasn’t on the bench I felt happier. Whatever his strengths/weaknesses he brings energy and potentially an element of panic in the opposition.

This, always seems to cause trouble particularly against tiring defences

We did not bring Patton on either, I think price knew early enough to save him, means both sides had an ability to change the dynamic of the game on the bench they didn't need to utilise.

Me three - I’m stuck abroad and would love to see the entire match!

rumour has it, eddie hemmings STILL hasn't spoken since the hooter.

I think that's the point Fages wasn't on the bench

“Never ever write off the Saints.” Oh, wait a minute.......

By all accounts he's handed in a transfer request and won't be at Saints next season.

Out of curiosity for the Saints try, at what point would it have to have been different to successfully argue that Ratchford was tackled without the ball?

Is that why he wasn’t picked,or was the transfer request after? Genuinely think it was a very important call not to pick him, but I was glad he didn’t!

He's far better than that cocky average so and so who plays half back

Since we missed out on Hastings, is Fages worth a punt? Might be the partner we need for Austin - and Brown won’t get as much game time with his head injury record I’m sure...

I didnt know we were in for him.
Leeds Wigan were throwing him offers but not us as far as im aware. Tell me more!?

When I say missed out, I mean missed the chance. I would have liked to see him here. I have no inside info on whether we made a move for him.

We do need a half with a decent kicking game to replace Roberts though.