Good display by saints tonight.

They've won the Grand Final already.

2014 Year of the Wol....Saints!

In truth top display, Walsh brilliant and it's good to see. Good Friday should be a stormer.

dont mention the stiff arm from Sia on Monaghan

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saints played well and warrington played absolute poop kind of like our performance against hudds but worse. Pack looks soft and that tackle from Waterhouse at the end proved it how can a bloke that size get completely bowled over?

I thought Saints looked awesome tonight , got some real talented youngsters, unlike the wire who looked slow and laboured, think Saints will give us a run this year , should be good to see both young teams contesting things.Walsh looks like a good buy..

Can't wait for the Wigan saints derbys now we both have a decent team!!

Are you all forgetting that Wire are our "Derby" team now.... FOOLS!!

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"Wolfs" cracks me up every time....

Top match ups all over the shop when we play them!

Bowen/Hampshire vs Lomax

Charnley vs Swift

Burgess vs Makinson

Smith vs Walsh

Taylor vs Walmsley

McIlorum vs Roby

Lockers vs LMS (have to throw a funny one in).

Should be the best derbies in years.

Looking forward to good Friday already. Wigan v Saints derbies had gone fairly stalebfor a few years with Wire being the one to look forward to. Looks like things are going to change again!

Always makes me laugh





Bring on Good Friday and good luck next week lads. Bring it home!

As I said on the Saints board can we apply the brakes and reduce this cringeworthy praise of Saints we all have our hatred for Saints despite all having respect for them and every other club despite what we say but it's the first game of the season a good solid performance from Saints no doubt but as a member of these boards I don't particularly want to read this mini Saints love in if the shoe was on the other foot we wouldn't be receiving the praise that we are giving.

Thread title changed.

Marius is already claiming a vendetta against him, the last thing I need are more PMs I don't bother reading before deleting.

Ouch!

A thread in my name, I'm touched.

I was impressed with Saints tonight. Luke Walsh was excellent and exactly what we've been missing. A proper no.7 who will control everything and boss the game. Amor, Wheeler and Roby also played well and I really hope Wheeler can stay fit.

We look vulnerable on our left side defence though, mainly due to Percival's insistence on jumping out of the line. He needs to sort that out.

I thought Warrington were very poor. Their forwards were non-existence and I've never seen Westwood get bullied like that.

All in all it was a great start for us. Very encouraging.

This photo is the gift that keeps on giving. I've seen it a million times and it still makes me chuckle. Genius.

We all want Saints to be competitive now and again though, don't we?

It wouldn't be much as much fun if we beat them every time.

We need to let them win the odd match and trophy so they think they've got a chance (we over did things on this front in 2006 but still managed to annoy them by getting more press coverage than they did, even when we were at a low ebb we scored a victory of sorts over our friends from Merseyside).

If they've got their hopes up and we beat them yet again then that's much more amusing than just thrashing them when they're expecting to lose. We want them to have their hopes cruelly dashed.

Warrington looked awful tonight. Richie Myler is hands down the most overrated halfback in Syooper League. He is awful and will be really exposed this year in Briers' absence. I remember when he was younger and Wire fans tried telling us that he was better than Tomkins. Just like they have tried telling us that Riley was better than Charnley (I think I still have that thread bookmarked).

Early days for Saints. An impressive victory and they will be more of a threat this year. An injury to Walsh or Roby and they are screwed though. Superb pass from Jordan Turner for that try.

Perhaps Mr Smith should have spent a bit more time on his own plays for this season when they were over in Aus pre season instead of trying to help our WCC opponents !!!!!!!!!
Wanted to see the postmatch interviews but they gave them a miss, also was it the Lee Briers show, felt like it, even though he's finished, well he has been for a bit !
Well played Saints, roll on Good Friday

I haven't seen the game but how did Warrington attack down the right now they have lost the Breirs/Monaghan combination that seemed to keep defences over stretched.

Good performance from Saints, Wire were poor and made lots of errors, from what I saw last week though I think Huddersfield would have beaten either last night, long, long way to go this season yet, looking forward to it all !!!

Haha.

In the case of Wilkin and Turner I think they just got done with good footwork and there was no intent. Turner in particular looked genuinely apologetic and he held his hands up to what was a clumsy tackle.

Soliola on the other hand came running onto the field as though he was looking for trouble and he lacked composure. He was forgetting his position in the defensive line and homing in on attackers from all angles. I don't think the high tackle deserved a red card or a ban but it wasn't a nice challenge at all and deserved going on report and him receiving a warning. He needs to be careful.

Warrington were woeful, looked like a team with the heart ripped out of them, pack was dominated, Myler went MIA, really missing Morley, Carvell and Briers.

The interchange of Morley, Carvell and Monaghan used to give me nightmares, at least this season I will get a good nights sleep!

that said, its not how you start the season, its how you finish it that matters.

When I saw how weak/inexperienced the Wire bench was I fancied Saints strongly. Saints used their subs very well knowing what Wire had on the bench (four changes in the first 20 minutes)
If Wire had Wood, Monaghan, Harrison and Currie on the bench then I think it would have been a much closer game.

Percival is getting a bit of stick for that first try, but I think you'll find Wheeler is too far infield and there is no covering second rower. I'm not sure Percival could have done much else.

I wonder if Brown will comment on the high tackles.

The Wilkin one probably came off the shoulder, Turner was beaten by the step, but Soliolas was a bad tackle.
It'll be interesting to see what the review panel come up with.

Just on the first point Tony Smith has a lot to answer for. He has hardly given his young players any game time over the last couple of years.