Feels like field position might be at a premium unless Saints feel like coughing it up in their own half repeatedly.

no point trying to take them on through the middle, get at them outwide, keep the ball alive, tire them out, play to our strengths not theirs

Looking forward to seeing Moy and Walker playing together, think they might switch a bit throughout.

That's a stinky team.

What we supposed to do????Down on numbers and it’s the only they can cobble together

Anyone cutting though station, just a heads up some far right racists have decided to stage a protest because of foreigners......

Was pretty hectic when I got there

It's still stinky

This type of team under Smith would have been beaten by 40 points today, be interesting to see how we get on.

Martin seems very suspect when defending attacking kicks.

Weird take, thought he has dealt with everything as good as possible today, particularly against one of the best.

Tried hard for 20 mins, they got tied and main difference is Clarke, we don't have players of class in our 17 (yet). Trimuemans best quality is his defence which says it all, that last set we had on our line summed us up.

Can't fault the effort but just lacking quality and power today.

We are on the bones of our es team wise. Plenty of effort and pride being shown which lets be honest is all we can ask of the youngsters. Missing Ese Sao Ashworth King Cartwright we have no size.

Over a period time ive watched him and seems to drop a fair few balls so not sure how its a wierd take. He sorts that out a d will be a great winger.

Never seen it and never heard anyone mention it either, not made an error so far from a high kick, so strange time to mention it.

Balmforth having a shocker today, will happen at his age.

Unfortunately looks as though a 40 is coming as just battering us down the middle,too fast and Clark killing us from acting half

Fash is unbelievable thick.

2 missed tackles that have cost us but is a learning curve for him….Well done Fash as well…people go on about Sao but Fash is just as daft and can see him being a squad player next yr

Yip….a good honest player but need more,either squad or can move him on.

So your saying he hasnt made an error from dealing with attacking kicks ? Then you cant have watched him alot this season.

Of course he has, I didn't say he hadn't did I, every winger in the world does.

Miski got out jumped on Thursday night,seen all wingers make errors but you seem to have got it in for him…he is a young kid who will improve

To he expected with the squad we named. We're a patched up mess.

Hope everyone gets home OK with the stupidity going off in city centre

A bit of a disappointing scoreline but not unexpected given the two sides.
For all the bleating about Saints absentees it was a decent team.

On the plus side I think Barron looks a hugely improved player. There was a game last year where he couldn't catch a cold, took everything today.

Score line doesn’t tell the true story from the game. St’s had players missing yes but still had 12 of their usual 17 particularly in the forwards. We were literally bare bones with 5 possibly 6 players that have been making patched up 17’s (but more out of necessity than anything else). With no size whatsoever without Ese’ese or Sao it really was an impossible task made harder by some dumb stuff and Fash with a poor yellow. Future definitely looks bright though with the young lads breaking through.
Effort and determination is there to play for each other and until the final whistle and the last minute try showed that.

Up to shirt number 51 with three loanees, seven under 21s inc three teenagers, three mid season signings and only one quota player today - vs. Saints with Paasi, Sironen, Blake and Mbye. Our young kids have been overplayed out of necessity.

Today was our first big defeat in 9 games. Nobody likes it, but it reflects the situation we’re in at the minute.

Our team will be completely different next season. 4, maybe 5, of the team who played today are in our starting 17 next season.

Echo what most have already said. They tried hard, gave it their all, no complaints about the effort expended by all, but it was literally boys against men out there this afternoon.

We simply could not get out of our own half throughout the whole game, don't think I have seen a game played almost exclusively inside half the pitch!! We simply didn't have any size or power to push Saints back to any degree.

As for Saints fielding an under-strength side! All I can say is, I wish we could field an 'under-strength' side along those lines. Even our first-choice 17 (whatever/whoever that is!!) would pale in comparison to this supposedly injury-hit crisis Saints. Honestly, some clubs have no idea what 'doing it tough' actually entails. We'll do a swop if they like?

Not sure Walker at half is the way forward either, thought he looked a bit like a fish out of water, although to be fair to him this was hardly the situation for any half-back to shine given there was so little space to operate in, so I felt sorry for him in that regard.

Onto next week for the next round then!!!