first half was good....but need to learn lessons from previous seasons and keep up the intensity for 80 mins.....forwards were outstanding, we made all the ground through them. Kicking game from briers and moners was poor, again!

cant remember monas being mentioned at all after the team sheets were read out

we are rubbish any other team would of won that tonight u shouldnt lose from 14 0 up in the 2nd half i dont care who your playing its a joke

Home early? If you cant back the team each week then dont watch them - its the first game ffs!! get a grip. Saints would have beat anyone in that second half. Judge the team after 8-10 matches not 1.

we will lose the next few we always do after losing to saints hope im wrong obviosly but i fear the worse

We let Saints back into the game and had no idea how to stop them. Our marker defence is still weak and as soon as Saints went up the middle they dominated.

It's the first game of the season and we played for 50 minutes out of 80, a bit like last year really.

26 unanswered points in 31 minutes is unacceptable for any team that wants to win things.

Most teams havent got a clue when Saints just get a rollon and run the ball - theyve won umpteen trophys with this style.

You are right, and we've always been soft when people take us on up the middle (from dummy half).

especially when you consider that we missed all but one of our goals.

We didn't look fit enough to me.

Yes it's game one, but international class players shouldn't concede 6 unanswered tries in less than 40 minutes, that's shocking!

As for King & Monaghan.........

Shouldn't you be busy updating your sig or something eh?

Exactly, but some blinkered fans on here will still think the team were great and all is rosy in the camp.

6 tries to 2 isn't a close game to me.

good point

Can't agree that we were pethetic, we did a good containing job first 40 and took the opportunity to take a good lead. At 14-0 we should have kicked on but as we know over the years Saints can turn a game so easily against us.

Thought in the main the majority of the forwards did well but not a lot came from the backs unfortunately, with Briers and Monas very quiet, they will need to step their game up if we are to do well.

Higham had a good debut and I thought he was odds on for MOM until Saints got into gear.

First half brilliant. Very strong.

Second half same old Wire.

Oh well.

i thought we got hit for 6 tonight, Roby, Graham, Pryce, Long, Gidley,Wellens, to be precise, Saints went to these big game players so much in the second half as they tore us up, abig second half they delivereed. our "big game " players went missing. Not Good Enough!

Wire weren't that bad. We only started playing in the last 20 minutes. For an hour you kept us quiet.

If you seriously think morley is any good then you deserve everything you get, he is pants

Gilly - you've obviously been sniffing your Mums pants...to say Morley is no good shows a complete lack of any intelligence...ah but..you support Saints...nuff said
You are a tool of the first order, and obvioulsy enjoy sheep more than most

Nah. That's too harsh. We clicked about 20 minutes from the end, because for a nanosecond we were allowed to by a mistake of yours, and then we went into Fast and Furious mode, the mode we Saints fans love to watch, and we get extremely slippery at that point. Up to then, Wire were in control for most of the game and certainly had us beat with the kick. Find an answer to our Fast and Furious mode and you've got us.

Or wait another year when Long and Cunningham are no longer around and Pryce may end up sleeping the whole of each match and you'll walk right over us!

I think this was the key area. When Cunningham came on for his second spell, he started scooting against lazy/tired/ non agressive markers. At Warrington, marker is a place to have a breather, if you are too slow or tired to get back into the line. Scooting down the middle pulled the forwards in , leaving the centres in space and isolated.

Johnson showed that he isn't a centre...and is past his best.
King showed that he is pedestrian, passive and lacks any sign of ability.

Add to that two half backs who can't/won't run forwards and take on the line or even talk to each other and its a recipe for a long unsuccesful season.

(Lowes is now the bookies favourite to be the first coach to go)

Morley will be in contention for Man of Steel this season. Quality player

Obsessed

one word...fitness...

everything points to the fact that we are not fit enough!

shot our bolt in the first half...nothing left for the second.

Same old same old.

Watching us v Saints is like going to see the same west-end play over and over again...you just know whats coming next..its as if its scripted.

It is early days (first game and all that)..but the signs are that nothing has changed....

It certainly did seem as if we lost all ability to keep up with the pace and firepower of the Saints. Can't believe the effort that was put in in the first half just couldnt be replicated in the second. Gidley's try changed the game and I knew full well that we would be struggling to hang on from there on in. Dissappointed, but at the end of the day, I cant say I turned up at Knowsley Road expecting a Wire win.