We'll grow another limb after that. Saints were flat out we have another 2 gears in there somewhere.

Based on what? That was arguably Saints 2nd worst performance of the season, on the back of another tough game at Wigan. We were 10 points clear and don't need to win again this season in the league. We also have Alex Walmsley about to come back as fresh as a daisy. But we were flat out?

An alternative suggestion is that Wire were massively up for the game and still fell short. Price's reaction when you scored told you how much the game meant. You made 2 breaks all game. It could be argued we played the game with 12 men too as Barba was clearly woefully unfit and wasn't linking into the line, leaving everything to Lomax.

I just don't get where the smug arrogance comes from. Sure, you are a decent side and could win the double if things went your way, but to be so dismissive of a side that could be 12 points clear and beat you twice this season is just odd.

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Could it perhaps be construed that Warrington didn't let Saints play & get into gear ? It is amazing that ""great"" teams supporters can't bear the thought of possibly being beaten in a one off game. Their team always seems to be below par & manages to lose.

A couple of the passes pre field goal attempts were SHOCKING and completely put the kicker off balance.
However with five minutes left ... that was when a drop goal should have been attempted just prior to BMM buggering up.
Wire were right under the posts and central ... almost a gimmee.
OK the game wouldn't be sown up ... but possibly.
Saints took great heart from stopping Wire then and kicked on to victory.

It comes from the smug, arrogant Saints fans. (i'm not saying all Saints fans fall into that category). Check out Redvee if you want to see what I mean.

You beat a team by a last minute penalty at home, that team were in the middle 8s last season, can't see why as a supporter of that team I can't take a degree of satisfaction from that.

Some very good performances yesterday but I thought Jack Hughes put in a gargantuan effort.

Great defensive battle. Childs was massively out of order giving the penalty at the end considering he refused to give the penalty when Hill was clearly interfered with the previous set in front of the sticks. Not much between the teams at all, we will take a lot from that.

Is he the latest saviour? We have been hearing this for 20 years, different name each year, same result end of the season.

This time next year he will be your latest scapegoat.

Saints didnt need to try much last night. We just went through the motions whilst Warrington gave 110% and still came up short. Shows the massive gulf between the 2 teams

Regards

King James

dont be soft the game meant as much to both teams and to both coaches...our coach said we should have won that game three times over and yet he wasn't too dissapointed...your coach was clearly miffed by having to get a cheap penalty to win the game... and criticised our style of play ...which to be fair was for our ordinary pack the worst in ten years to run all over yours.... suck it up... hes a proper mard Holbrook....

Also as a wire fan it irks me having to read and hear about the next coming of Jesus Christ our lord in Danny Richardson this lad created nothing in 80 minutes of rugby league nothing jack ...his kicks were Tyrone Roberts-esque.. his running game was Kevin Brown-esque
yet he scored a kick with Zero pressure.......after the hooter...

Yes Zero pressure... kick it and you win and win the league leaders shield... miss it ... and you draw and still win the league leaders shield.

we have the two worst half backs at warrington in a generation they cant pass cant kick cant run.... and you absolutely battered us out of sight by 2 points.....

I'd be worried tha Barba has become Chris Sandow and is primarily thinking of home but also thinking of playing in the two big finals and thinking he just has to turn up and win them....and go home a super hero...

he was garbage yesterday Tom Lineham was faced with a three on one with Ben barba with the ball in his hand and Lineham dealt with it easily....

it was a low quality game all round but we arent the runaway league leaders and the best saints side in a century so I'm not as worried as a saints fan should be....
good luck in the semi final.....catalan are bigger stronger and have better half backs than us....

No sooner do you say "smug, arrogant Saints fan" and as if by magic...

I love coming on here when it gets to a hilarious perspective, your team the first half will not get much better than that, Saints just soaked up the pressure and was only 8 points down. Our attack was pretty poor and only around 50%, once we get to full speed the Wire will get a good hiding which means gobby Hill will blow a gasket.

it was a poor game and a terrible advertisement for the standard of the top 4.
You're deluded.. as is RD, to think neither team can improve on that.

not one single wire fan believes we can win the Grand Final (or even get to it). unlike Saint Helens fans who are talking trebles...( which i predicted for them at the start of the season BTW).

So wind your neck in take your victory with some grace (not possible I know) and worry about how many you are going to get tonked by in the World club final next year....

Still there was another world class showing from MoS elect B Barba to drool over.

We won't mention Ratchford's attempt on Percival.

And that "grass cutter" drop goal attempt.

I should imagine that Catalans will have few more extra supporters next week, possibly dressed in primrose and blue with suspect French accents.

And how is that relevant to my point?

That's a laugh about child shouldn't have give us the penalty...6 of your points came from child giving you three shots at goal...maybe he shouldn't have gave them either then you would have just scored only six points..

Child was a joke last night. Everything that could have gone to Warrington did.

Getting fed up with one time hero Chris Hill. Cut out the niggles, needless penalties, backchat and drama. Get back to what you do best.

Brilliant, the way that Sky were banging on about Cooper last night was hilarious, especially when Thompson was quite clearly a fair bit better.

That was arguably our worst performance of the season and yet we still won. Any half decent attacking side would have been out of sight in that first half. Child made some bizarre decisions for the whole of that first 40 yet you couldn’t take advantage. Brown and Roberts are the main reason why you won’t win anything this season, the latter is embarrassing and I’m gutted he’s going home. 300k a year for that.

We soaked up the pressure first half and as soon as Barba scored you felt that was your chance gone. I’ve never seen worse execution of a drop goal (3 times) and ultimately you bottled it. You’re a solid side but that’s about it. Very good defensively but I’ve never seen a side look so clueless in attack. I’m sure that you can improve on that performance but so can we and ultimately unless something changes you aren’t good enough to win a grand final.

At last AS108, now our cup truly overflows.

To add to that, Steve Price didn't appear to have much confidence in the teams ability to score trys, 3 penalties in the 20 to 30 metre zone and he instructed for a goal kick on every one. Holbrook would have instructed his players to play the ball to increase pressure on the defensive line.