Oh right, I thought you was convincing yourself again that you'd already won it like some of your fans did on here a few weeks ago.

Good luck next week, Saints have lady luck on their side when they play at the HJ.

I guess it took time to sew 20 stitches!

God we were s h i t e! We had a great comeback chance in the second half - everyone always does with Wigan - but we couldn't even take it when given on a plate. 43% ball retention rate. Wow. That'll get us a Grand Final win!

Should be an interesting humiliation at the HJ next week. Either that or we will blow you apart. Somehow, though, I just can't see that happening!

Twenty stiches? he was sat on bench for ages.

I have not seen much of Saints on TV this year but I was shocked at their body language. if there was a dropped ball they didn't even attempt to drop on it.The Saints players looked more concerned with questioning the ref whilst play is still ongoing rather than trying to get back in defence (check Eastmond in the build up for Tomkins Try). Clearly they have lost a bit of mental toughness and to be fair to them they do have a lot of players out. If I were them I would bring Eastmond on as Replacement hooker and keep Roby on the pitch as a loose forward against us. Roby must be knackered playing 80 mins of most games.

Eastmond is totally disinterested and just waiting to go to RU. Roby and Graham were both poor last night and I suspect that they were both carrying injuries. Wigan's excellent defence never gave Saints any good position and the Saints halfback were anonymous for the first 60 minutes.

That's the same body language we had at the outset of the season. I think I want our young guys back again because while we were having our injury crisis we looked like a team who cared. Our oldies return (bar in the halves - and that showed last night) and we put our feet up.

I am a Wigan fan and I totally agree with this. Many of times I've cringed at the comments and attitude of my fellow Wigan supports.
Fickle, ignorant and often can't see past the cherry and white tinted specs.

As a RL over 30 I've seen many ups and downs in our great sport, and have seen how important Wigan RL have been. Without us English RL wouldn't be the same.

think you'll find it was Ross Kemp for Sky (although he could see it was about to kick off so he got out of there fast)!

Good post. I mean, what was that crappy song they were singing at full time. Absolutle crap.

'We Are The Champions'.

Where were all the Saints fans last night? Saw the tries on SSN and there seemed to be loads of empty seats, except in the away end.

Pretty much the same I suspect when you guys played them earlier. Only 5 minutes down the road and they can't sell out, embarrassing for such a big club.

Not really. KR had quite a good number of 'walk up' fans. They'll all return next year. Wigan fans have a short memory for things like this. The crowd for their play-off game at Widnes a couple of years ago wasn't much above 6000.

that was a playoff game though where crowds hardly ever sell well as previous records show. What was your attendance against Huddersfield last year? just over 8,000?

There is alot of time to go in the season and whilst we where well of the pace last night, that has not been the case all season. We've been very variable, sometimes great other times awful, other times average.

Consistency has been our problem all season. But we are hardly a million points off Warrington and Huddersfield. Wigan I think have escaped Saints, but Wigan, Warrington and Huddersfield all have to play each other.

A win next week for Saints , puts us either a point behind Warrington or a point infront, depending on Warringtons result this weekend.

It's a long time before the season finishes and I'm not ready to give it up after a poor performance.

Nah. It was a $hitter one. No words in it just 'woah' and 'na na na' all the way through.

Yes, it was, but my point, which you conveniently ignored, was that Saints are not playing on their own ground. Their crowds will return next year, absolutely no problem.

Its called the ''dale cavese''.

What was the excuse for the awful showing in the cup semi at Widnes in 2009?

I think it's something football teams do on the continent. It can be quite impressive when thousands are doing it and bouncing at the same time, doesn't quite work when a few hundred chavs and teenage mums who look like they've been kicked through sports direct are doing it.

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Maybe they should do 20 mins of 'Barmy Army' instead.

Great comeback. Killed me there.

The Dale Calvese certainly isnt the best song around but it did create one hell of an atmosphere! Nothing we can't beat our selves come friday night!

So we spend a season away from home and all that goes with that and get an average of 7815, not including the Wigan game on Friday. I understand the comment above is a fishing expedition. But actually the average is alot better than I thought it would be. It's within 100's of the following

Huddersfield
Cas
Hull KR
Catalan


I see Huddersfield have only been getting 5k at Halifax. As I live in that neck of the woods, trust me it's just as close if not closer than Widnes to Knowsley road.

You just lose the walk up's away from home. No matter the distance.

I think thats the point, its simple and keeps the singing going for the full 80, once a player does something noteworthy the fans will swap to another song



Its a poor effort, yes you could argue you will lose the walkup crowd in Widnes, but to have only 8k saints fans there for the derby was rubbish quite frankly

The average isnt that bad, its just worrying that you cant get your fans to travel 15-20 mins for arguably the biggest game of the season there.



Another very poor effort, i worry for how many Hudds will bring to the DW next week even with tickets being offered for a tenner as under 1000 would be very poor for a so called 'big club'