Wow, really enjoyed that.

Rugby league the greatest game! Wigan v Saints what a game! What a finish! Credit to both sets of players.

Just in the car park. I'll have to watch it again when I get in but first thoughts are; what a fantastic game of rugby league, great advert for the sport and a great win for us. Thought both teams played very well and quite frankly I'm knackered from watching it!

Yeh great game and a great advert for rugby league. Saints gave everything - can't fault the team for spirit or effort - hopefully they can patch everyone up for Monday. Wigan shaded it just in terms of making the right plays at the right time where as Saints inexperience at key moments cost them the game. Two controversial decisions (the forward pass try and the off the face knock) balanced themselves out in the end. Once again though both sides have put on a spectacle that was 100 times better than what was served up last night and earlier today. Saints Vs Wigan - THE derby of british rugby league.

Watched it with three Catalans who spent the majority of the match, especially the second half, on the edge of their seats. Spent the first half explaining what was going on. Second half no questions. The game is that simple, brilliant!

You can't equate a try scoring forward pass with a mistaken knock on (was it even a mistake, I'm not sure about the rules?)

The former results in four (or six) points. The latter is six tackles on defence.

We were a tad lucky, but i'll take the 2 points. Surprised Stains aren't making more of Wheeler getting taken out after his kick. Big turning point IMO.

If the ball is headed forward then it's a knock on, so it was the correct decision as far as I'm aware. It's the forward pass for the final try in Cardiff which has now been evened out.

If we're going back THAT far we'll need a pen and paper. There were several dubious decisions in that game.

Nice of you to be gracious in defeat........

dissagree, now read it and weep. Thought the ref was lenient around the play of the ball and offside

Get in wigan

Credit where credit is due. You were very good ten minutes before half time and twenty minutes after. The rest was Saints' game. You won because we were down to bare bones injury-wise and gave you three gilt-edged chances with seven minutes to go (and you were also the beneficiary of a forward pass resulting in a try).

I don't have anything to "weep" about. I thought we were the better side.

But you lost...

You had a few dubious decisions yourselves

The ball steal that never was, and the head ball lead to two tries both come to mind

Amazing game, that is what RL is all about, sunshine, great atmosphere, well behaved fans and a great result

How many points do you get for being the better side?

Just asked RFL and they said 0 points. Will double check with BBC and Sky later.

Wigan 28 - St Helens 24 FT
Tries: Liam Farrell, Josh Charnley 2, Pat Richards 2
Jamie Foster 2, Michael Shenton, Thomas Makinson
 
Goal: Pat Richards 4
Jamie Foster 4
 

Look simple as wigan won saints were offside all game and got away with it so I think a forward try pass is evened out by the fact that you should have given a penalty away during every single one of our sets.

So stop the sour grapes and celebrate the brilliant advert for RL that it was!

I thought we were very lucky today and overall it was a poor performance but it is still very nice to win



Saints had a lot of players missing and sufferered bad injuries during the game such as Weeler going off, a player I always thought was overated but he was absolutely fantastic today before his injury. These injuries turned the match and Saints were well on top prior to this. There is definately much to work on from a Wigan point of view and I thought our forwards would have been a lot more dominant considering the injuries that Saints had. Our pack has definately been a weakness so far this season. Also our defence on the right with Tomkins and Charnley looked particularly weak.

Both sides had ball calls made against them. But only one of such was a call on a try-scoring act. You can't return from such. A ball-steal or Deacon's mistake still give the defence chance to atone.

It seems "We were lucky" are the three hardest words to say. And yet I'm accused of not being magnanimous.

That's your opinion based on assumptions. Thanks for offering them... You best go get a nice pint of bitter now.... bye

You're confusing my honest assessment of Saints' performance with my knowledge of the rules of the game. But I realise this is a difficult concept to grasp.

You lost ... get over it !

No - I think you'll find that [i"Both sides had ball calls made against them. But only one of such was a call on a try-scoring act. You can't return from such. A ball-steal or Deacon's mistake still give the defence chance to atone."[/i is an indisputable fact.

Saints had 43 minutes in which to return from that call and build up a match winning lead. If you don't build a lead that can win you a game and don't defend well enough to keep the opposition out then you don't deserve to win the game.