Saints were not better than us today, they were more experienced than us & / or clinical - their last try came from us numbering up wrong trying to stop making & farge, a quick play the ball & we had all the numbers wrong , a double Decker bus could have gone through, however the tackled did nearly stop scarsbrooke.
When we pressed on three drop outs we were slow with fatigue, they were not & read our slow plays.
We certainly looked more fatigued but we are getting more match fit.
I am still concerned that we are fit but not at saints level, will we get there, not so sure ?
But at least we had a go & at stages had them worried, up the trin.

Slightly disagree I think silly penalties and being unable to cross the line in periods of dominance cost us the game. And let's be honest that penalty from the halfway line goes over and it's a different end to the ball game. I think simply put we were just the wrong side of tight margins today.

Roby killed us out of dummy half.

Down a forward wouldn't have helped with fatigue. With Walmsley coming back on Saints had 9 interchanges with 17 men rather than 8 with 16.

We were 2 down in the second half when Danny k went off and couldn't return.

I agree, he was making yards for fun.
Immense play from a great player.

period of territorial dominance 2nd half wasn’t exploited - run in a score there and we go on to win.

Have to agree Roby was killing us, Lomax as well. Tough to take sometimes but they did outscore us 6-3

Enough there today to tell me we can get better and we’ll be alright this year. Next two game starting to look big for me though

Effort was there in abundance today but execution at times let us down ,but all in all a very good response by the players after last weeks performance .
As been rightly said roby made ground for fun around their fast play the ball and we didn’t seem to have an answer to this.
Competed for 78 mins and Went toe to toe with the form team and just came up short at the end,can’t ask for much more at this early stage of the season.

6 tires to 3 say it all realy and we would have three times more attack inside their 20....

get a attacking coach quick smart.

Small point, 5-3, McCarthy and Scarsbrook are 1 player

Roby didn't make yards for fun, he had a ten minute purple patch in the second half, jeeez people get carried away. He is however a truly excellent player and one Saints will struggle to replace when the time comes.

Bang on ,and if he'd had been playing for us we'd have won.

Fages was also a thorn in our side the whole match, not just Roby.
Saints have class just about all over the pitch and are level above us.
Money talks !

You say money talks but it’s interesting to go through the Saints side and see just how many of their talents are from the St Helens set up...

Lomax
Grace
Roby
Percival
Makinson
Richardson
Thompson

I accept that, and I know we too have some class homegrown players, but I feel we won't be at the top of the tier and on St's level until we can spend to the cap.
I'm not complaining at all about the players we have - perhaps before the season is out they will raise to the level of the St's players.....?

Well funded youth set up and able to throw money at the players to retain them. We’re getting there on that front but will perhaps never be able to attract the marquee players to compliment our own production line

Why didn't I say that

Very true!

hmm, I'm not sure they're a class above us tbh.
They did enough to win the game but we we're right on it till the end.
It kinda reminded me of last years fixture, one which they lost by not much.
A class above ?, nah

I'll be glad when we've won a game though, we need to set the ball rolling, all this talk of what we should be winning if we want to end up in position X in 20 odd games time is daft

, lets just get playing our game, try string some wins together and see where we are.

Agreed at the moment we 0 points and as good as last!

Thursday night is massive

Not really. We have played 2 games out of 30, the season has hardly started. Get over yourself.

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second last now!

better start getting points quick.

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