Criminal by Houghton really, we give ourselves a sniff and kick it dead and all the momentum we had going is gone.

All the trys we're conceding both tonight and last week are coming off the back of penalties. Really something we need to massively improve on.

Certainly seems that way. Although Andy Wilson reckons that was a miracle finish.

If only we could find a scrum half like walsh

Another error from Houghton. Fair to say he's had better starts to the season.

Too many mistakes and too many penalties here

*Sigh*

All we've done in the last 15 mins is turn possession over cheaply again, we don't seem to be able to do the basics right.

Terrible second half.
Both our games so far we've conceded 30+ points. There weren't many game last year at all were we let in 30.

34 - 16. Disappointing scoreline now

Worrying. Our goal line defence is woeful

Houghton in. Shame it was 15 minutes ago...

Consolation try.

Not a terrible result. Saints will be top two or three this season.

Really disappointed with that. I didn't expect us to win, but when you've got yourself right in the game at half time you shouldn't come out and surrender so limply.

That said Saints are a very good team, take the positives, work hard on defence again, and we'll have a crack at Warrington next week.

Not sure what has happened to our defence. Wasn't Radford our defensive coach last year?

It's early days, but it is potentially worrying. Not to mention confusing, seeing as we were assured that last year's strong defence was thanks to Radford, yet now he's in overall charge it appears it might have gone to pot.

Discipline.

5 tries conceded in the 2nd half. I know saints are good but they aren't that good.

68 points and 13 tries conceded in 2 games. Maybe gentle was defence coach really last season

i think saints are the yardstick for this season ,our conditioning is under par as we fall away second half.
still a good performance but too many mistakes and penalties given away

Yep.
On this occasion, it really is that simple.
Nearly every trey against comes off the back of a penalty. It giving us way too much to do in defence which is why we're getting tired and missing tackles.
36 points last week, 22 points against a solid Saints side..... Scoring points isn't the problem.

Would have liked that to be closer personally, but a 12 point loss when some were predicting a Saints blowout isn't 'terrible' by any means.

Missing Carvell for the whole second half won't have helped, but mistakes at crucial times and some less than stellar defending were the main contributors.

We are giving teams easy chances by conceding pens and they are scoring of it.......Is the Myth that is Houghton catching up with him?

I'll not pass judgement on discipline until I've seen the highlights at least. On the face of it we have work to do there though.

Tbh I expected a larger gap and a higher score from Saints, so overall not such a bad result. We really need to sort out our discipline, because if we hadn't give them few tries away straight in the second half on the back of penalty's it could have been a different game.

I can live with that performance tbh . In patches we were very competitive . For 20 minutes saints were un playable . Roby , LMS and walmsley were fantastic tonight .