I didn't hear what Hemmings wig said last week, was at the game.
what did he say please?

Don't tell him

I was at the game last week, but I watched it back when I got in.

Lol.
you bided your time well st pete

LOL. Even I'll show sympathy here. Travis is very, ... ahem ... "professional".

Hard bugger too, tho.

Possibly, but I think Thaler had a great game generally tonight.

I thought after a series of foul play Thaler had put them on a team penalty when he called Wilkin over.
It seems he hadn't, so all credit to Saints for utilising the cheat card very well. Something only the ape's pies usually can do.

Saints deserved the win, they scored more points than us. Joking aside, they've started the season on fire, and deserve their top place.

But they wouldn't be there if we had a decent coach that realised that Chris Bridge is the greatest half back ever to touch a rugby ball. Oh, and Ratchford should play in the halfs too. (I'm off to look for that thing I can click so a round yellow thing hits his head against a wall, to imply that my post contains both sarcasm and frustration at the stupidity of Polyisoprene Anatidae.)


Edit; Can't find it; I must have seen it on another forum. Didn't we used to have one of those yellow heads banging against a brick wall? I want to know where it has gone.

Bring it back.

Can't remember a single decent kick all night from us. Bridge should have been hauled off after about ten minutes. That defence on the right edge again... hmmmm. I do regret to inform that Penny did take a bit of stick from our fans tonight. To be fair I was ready to burst into a barrage of abuse when he nearly dropped it before his try. Don't think he's to blame for tonight though. No lack of effort though, loved Hill's dummy.

There's far too much blame being heaped upon the Warrington halves.

Especially when the Warrington forwards - especially at prop - were completely anonymous.

I'm not defending Bridge and O'B - but it's a bit of a tall order for them to make a mark when they have no decent possession.

They need to get Laithwaite and Currie involved more, both players have great potential but didn't see enough of the ball tonight and Westwood was a bit anonymous apart from the pass around the 10th min when Penny knocks on when he could have scored.
I thought Sims made an impact in defence and Hill made the metres, neither were overly bad IMO. The halves were all over the place for me, the organisation was non exsistant and if Ratchford was a t 6 they might have created more.

Fair play for plugging on and keeping the heat on us, you'll beat plenty of teams if you play 80 mins like you did the last 20.

I was expecting A LOT more from Warrington's front three. Going into the match I figured it was a definite threat.

Sims was ok..ish. But I've no idea where Hill was tonight (aside from the last minute).

The lack of forward momentum was a significant factor in Clark's almost total nullification.

Westwood did ok. But it was like watching a cruiser trying to slug it out with a battleship. Saints seem to be anywhere up to 6-12lbs heavier per man.

Exactly what my sister and myself said in response to the blame/abuse being lumped on Penny.

Penny struggled tonight. He was lucky he finally got hold of that ball for his try, you get the feeling he's one dropped ball away from a crisis of confidence.

I've seen most of his performances this year and I don't get that feeling. At all...

I thought it wasn't one of Currie's finest displays.
Atkins bombed a certain try in the first when chose to demonstrate his poor judgement and passing techniques with the line in front of him beckoning.

I think some of us assume, because our kicks didn't find touch or turn a man, we had a bad kicking game.

I didn't see that in the first half. Warrington we clearly told imo to keep the ball live. Not to kick it dead purposely as to burn St's out. It was working too. It was our errors and 1 or 2 dubious ref calls that let Saints off the ropes.

Saints were the better side and no complaints there, but they only just beat us.
There is a lot more to come from us.

I've said all year I think you will win it this season. Leeds aren't that good and Wigan have turned up to the Tour de France on a BMX. If we could get Walsh on the field with Burns we'd push you, but we'll have to do it without Lomax who is said to be out for the season.

The last ten minutes warped the game, Saints were very comfortable tonight. Two kicks from charge downs and you made it exciting. But Warrington despite year after year of failure under Smith just don't seem to have learned the lessons. The default mode for Warrington has always been to go expansive in big games. There are games where you've got to earn the right to score by doing the grind first. Smith should look at videos of how the NRL sides played against the SL sides and copy that. Conservative, down the middle rugby, a quality kicking game and tough defense with a quick line. Earn the territory and hunt the error.

You have also got to get some faith in a 1,6,7 combination and stick with it for the season. Chopping and changing those key positions is mindless and can lead only to disruption.

What "failure under Smith" looks like:

^ Hmm, something is missing...

We were away at the unbeaten leaders, champs and best team ever to play the game. Our pack was second best or obliterated/smashed/demolished if you're using mugwumps book of overly giddy adjectives. We played pretty poorly (we even made Wilkin look good) and saints played very well...we lost by 8. No need to panic.

It was beyond bad... it was embarrassing... Poor kicks, lacking distance, into the hands of an unchallenged saints player time after time.

We didn't turn them around once.... They made huge distance on us on the back of that kicking game... Then as a result we were pinned back near own own line on pretty much every set.

if you didnt see that in the first half... and you think THAT type of kicking was a ploy by Smith.. then you're even more barking mad than i originally thought.


onto the game.... i thought we did very well to get within 1 score at the end, given the field position we gave away... How Bridge is getting a game at 6 is nothing short of amazing. He may as well not have been on the pitch last night. To say he was a passenger is an understatement.. Felt a little sorry for GOB having as our own HB on the pitch.

Still early in the season.. hopefully the management learnt a few lessons from that last night.. no disgrace losing to saints at their place... They played it well.. they knew our kicking game was weak and they pinned us deep in our own half and didnt let the wingers run from acting HB like they did against Leeds last week.

Im also really struggling to see what all the fuss is about with Currie.... im wanting to like him, but he just seems to go missing for me... Now and again he does something decent.. but its just now and again... He was meant to be 'the next big thing'.. To me he just looks bang average.

Very disappointed in Warrington. I felt you were one of the few capable of pushing us close this season. Not on that you aren't.

I feel for Chris Hill. Deserves to play for a Saints, Wigan, Leeds etc.

Yeah, well spotted. I know you guys have tunnel vision after your record breaking 5-in-a-row, but there is more than one trophy in the rugby league.