I thought there were more than 2500, the west stand was almost full.

All the lads played as a team and they were all great. Walker stood out for me as did Davies as lads ready for first team, prob Sam Gee and Vievers too.

Wigan looked a class apart but that Gary Wheeler is a good un, I would really try to sign him I don't think he will make a stand off but will make a cracking centre in years to come mark my words, get him signed Mr Lenegan!

Should we be getting excited about 6/7 of tomkins and Mellor ?

Awesome effort! We could be the first team to win all 3

Who knows. We've got another half back Sam Powell shining in the Under 18s. And although he didnt score today I liked the kicking game of Number 14 Stuart Howarth when he came on and we shifted Pryce to centre. He was regular Stand Off but got injured in early July. Surprised he played today but considering it was his first run in 3 months - so he did well.

How hard does neil holland tackle?

. The whole pack was awesome.

We dominated with him and Ben Davies and only when they went off did Saints start to get a little bit into the game.

Sadly new rules probably will rule both of them out of playing next season. I know Ben is off to Wakefield for a year but not heard if Neil will be retained or moved on.

How about Walker! He tackles everything!

From a Saint's Fan point of view: Quote Quote ="The Chair Maker"Just returned from the DW, a ground that sounds more like a chain of iron mongers than the home ground of a premiership football team. I arrived in the ground just as the two teams took to the field. It was clear then that there was a large difference in size between the respective sides. Most notably in the form of Karl Pryce. Right from the off Wigan were on top, scoring after little over 5 minutes. Saints then spent most of the half repelling wave after wave of Wigan forwards who smashed through the Saints middle with ease. Conversly Saints forwards struggled to make any sort of yardage, and by half time had only managed to get in the Wigan half on 3 occasions. Once following a wonderfull step and go from Wheeler, secondly from a 40/20 from Wheeler, and thirdly following a Wigan knock on just inside Saints half which allowed us to get near the wigan sticks. Only then for Saints to look somewhat clueless near the Wigan line. Wigan on the other hand with a dominant pack giving the brilliant Joe Mellor room to do what he wanted were taking the mickey. Mellor himself scored an absolutely fantastic try in which is weaved, stepped dummied and outpaced what looked like half the Saints side, before going under the sticks. When this is combined with the astute kicking and organising game which he displayed' one has to say that Wigan fans should be getting very excited. I think a Mellor, Tomkins half back combination come 2012 is one that will rip SL teams to shreds. By half time it was 22-0 and the expectation was that Saints were in all probability going to collapse in the 2nd half and suffer an ignominious 50+ thrashing. This belief was given further support early in the 2nd half when Jamie Foster was sin binned for lying on after Wigan had gone 60 yards in a brlliant flowing move. Strangely though rather than collapse, Saints dug deep and came up with some excellent last ditch defence. We even managed to get to the half way line. Infact the score remained 22-0 for a sustained period until Kurt Haggerty managed to barge is way over from 10 yards out, a try which left him injured and forced to leave the pitch. The embarrassment of conceeding a try seemed to stir wigan from what now appeared to have been a coma brought on by boredom due to dominating Saints so easily. As a result Wigan started to run riot with 10 minutes to go and proptly increased the score from 22-6 to 34-6. During this period they were very unlucky not to bag a few more. The match finished 34-6 with much to think about from both sides. For Wigan there was the brilliant performance of their young reserves side. Its been shown over the last 18 months to be dominant over all other sides. Only Saints have come close, giving them their only defeat in the last year. They have some outstanding young forwards coming through, with size mobility and good hands. Joe Mellor at half back is really fast and agile. He is slightly built like Tomkins but looks a lot faster. On the flip side of the coin is the complete wast of a shirt that is Karl Pryce. The man looks and plays like one would expect of a real life Herman Munster. He does a disservice to the word garbage. Never since Vila Matautia set foot on a RL pitch have i seen someone so lazy. The sooner Wigan ditch this embarrassment the better. From Saints one may be tempted to be overly disheartened. However one has to remember that Saints have shown themselves to be the pies nearest rivals. Against all other opposition our youngsters have performed admirably. Gary Wheeler showed touches of class today, but sadly again went of injured. Emmitt despite being bashed left right and centre never took a backward step, and showed himself to be a real tough cookie. Of concern would be the poor performance of Frodsham. Granted he has only recently returned from a serious injury, but today he looked a shadow of his former self. He will need to work hard to get back to being in contention for a 1st team squad place. Lomax was irrepressable tackling and taking the ball forward, but his passing from dummy half at times was poor, and he also looked lacking in pace compared to the Wigan lads, when given space to run in. The young backrowers Dixon and Ashurst failed to match their Wigan opposites and were on the whole dissapointing.'" '" viewtopic.php?t=431765

From a Saint's Fan point of view: Quote Quote ="The Chair Maker"Just returned from the DW, a ground that sounds more like a chain of iron mongers than the home ground of a premiership football team. I arrived in the ground just as the two teams took to the field. It was clear then that there was a large difference in size between the respective sides. Most notably in the form of Karl Pryce. Right from the off Wigan were on top, scoring after little over 5 minutes. Saints then spent most of the half repelling wave after wave of Wigan forwards who smashed through the Saints middle with ease. Conversly Saints forwards struggled to make any sort of yardage, and by half time had only managed to get in the Wigan half on 3 occasions. Once following a wonderfull step and go from Wheeler, secondly from a 40/20 from Wheeler, and thirdly following a Wigan knock on just inside Saints half which allowed us to get near the wigan sticks. Only then for Saints to look somewhat clueless near the Wigan line. Wigan on the other hand with a dominant pack giving the brilliant Joe Mellor room to do what he wanted were taking the mickey. Mellor himself scored an absolutely fantastic try in which is weaved, stepped dummied and outpaced what looked like half the Saints side, before going under the sticks. When this is combined with the astute kicking and organising game which he displayed' one has to say that Wigan fans should be getting very excited. I think a Mellor, Tomkins half back combination come 2012 is one that will rip SL teams to shreds. By half time it was 22-0 and the expectation was that Saints were in all probability going to collapse in the 2nd half and suffer an ignominious 50+ thrashing. This belief was given further support early in the 2nd half when Jamie Foster was sin binned for lying on after Wigan had gone 60 yards in a brlliant flowing move. Strangely though rather than collapse, Saints dug deep and came up with some excellent last ditch defence. We even managed to get to the half way line. Infact the score remained 22-0 for a sustained period until Kurt Haggerty managed to barge is way over from 10 yards out, a try which left him injured and forced to leave the pitch. The embarrassment of conceeding a try seemed to stir wigan from what now appeared to have been a coma brought on by boredom due to dominating Saints so easily. As a result Wigan started to run riot with 10 minutes to go and proptly increased the score from 22-6 to 34-6. During this period they were very unlucky not to bag a few more. The match finished 34-6 with much to think about from both sides. For Wigan there was the brilliant performance of their young reserves side. Its been shown over the last 18 months to be dominant over all other sides. Only Saints have come close, giving them their only defeat in the last year. They have some outstanding young forwards coming through, with size mobility and good hands. Joe Mellor at half back is really fast and agile. He is slightly built like Tomkins but looks a lot faster. On the flip side of the coin is the complete wast of a shirt that is Karl Pryce. The man looks and plays like one would expect of a real life Herman Munster. He does a disservice to the word garbage. Never since Vila Matautia set foot on a RL pitch have i seen someone so lazy. The sooner Wigan ditch this embarrassment the better. From Saints one may be tempted to be overly disheartened. However one has to remember that Saints have shown themselves to be the pies nearest rivals. Against all other opposition our youngsters have performed admirably. Gary Wheeler showed touches of class today, but sadly again went of injured. Emmitt despite being bashed left right and centre never took a backward step, and showed himself to be a real tough cookie. Of concern would be the poor performance of Frodsham. Granted he has only recently returned from a serious injury, but today he looked a shadow of his former self. He will need to work hard to get back to being in contention for a 1st team squad place. Lomax was irrepressable tackling and taking the ball forward, but his passing from dummy half at times was poor, and he also looked lacking in pace compared to the Wigan lads, when given space to run in. The young backrowers Dixon and Ashurst failed to match their Wigan opposites and were on the whole dissapointing.'" '" viewtopic.php?t=431765

well done to the players and coaching staff, lets hope the 18s can win their game next week.

Quote ="MattyB"From a Saint's Fan point of view: viewtopic.php?t=431765'" Just goes to show how awesome our young players are. If we bring them through, we will have the best team in a few years time! I want to see 14 Wiganers take to the field each week! That would be awesome! Also remember that the reserves have lost a few players throughout the season and the 18s have stood up and played their hearts out.

Quote ="MattyB"From a Saint's Fan point of view: viewtopic.php?t=431765'" Just goes to show how awesome our young players are. If we bring them through, we will have the best team in a few years time! I want to see 14 Wiganers take to the field each week! That would be awesome! Also remember that the reserves have lost a few players throughout the season and the 18s have stood up and played their hearts out.

Nice to see Jonny getting a good run of games, as he'd previously been reduced to bit parts on the wing.

If Flannigan and Farrell were playing, would he be one that would drop out?

Quote ="MattyB"From a well known shythead's point of view: viewtopic.php?t=431765'" Edited for accuracy.

Quote ="MattyB"From a well known shythead's point of view: viewtopic.php?t=431765'" Edited for accuracy.

I wouldn't.

I like the majority to be Wiganers of course with a sprinkling of (2-3 players) world class imports.

14 Wiganers means there is 3 places left in the 17 for world class imports

With the odd Non Wiganer thrown in for good measure, ala:

Hanley (Leeds)
Goodway (Oldham)
Gill (Rochdale)
Robinson (Hunslet)
O'Connor (Widnes)

........etc!

Exactly! Inglis, Hayne and Burgess!

Briscoe
Thornley
Inglis
Gleeson
Ainscough
Tomkins
Hayne
Davies
McIlorum
Burgess
Hock
Farrell
Lockers

Tomkins
Leuluai (One more wouldnt hurt, a world cup winning hooker

)
Prescott
O'Carroll

Sorted

Joe Mellor had a great game. Not convinced he's ready for 1st team rugby just yet but the lad's got potential. A couple of cameo appearances of the bench next year will do him no harm.

Well done lads



Lets hope the Academy win next week too

wouldnt be surprised if mellor and thornley played in the academy final next week aswell.

was impressed with every single one of them but ones that stood out were mellor, charnley, holland, number 12(?) and mossop. Pryce was the worst IMO, did about 2 good runs through the game, and the rest he either did nothing or was just basically rubbish. But other than that a great performance totally dominated saints, it felt like i was watching a super league team v championship team at times the difference in class was miles. Well done Wigan

That was an absolute class try. I think if he makes the step up to the first team in the next couple of years we've a lot to look forward to.

Good to see a couple of first teamers there supporting the young lads too. I saw Sam T. Lockers and Phelps. Did anyone see any others there? Wondered if Noble made it down after the Club Call in Leeds too.

On a lesser note, also saw Kyle Eastmond sneaking out 10 minutes before the end.

Others that were there were Micky Mc, Feka, Richards, Carmont, Prescott, I did notice Phelps was limping hope he is OK for Saturday.
On the Noble one the Club call did not finish until 2.30 i was told with all the media interviews so if he did make it it would only have been for the last part of the second half.

I noticed Phelps limping too, took him ages to get up the steps.

My lads mithered Sam all afternoon lol.

Thought it was great when Feka, Lulu et all walked into the stand and the majority of the Wigan fans there stood and clapped them.