A decent effort today,plenty of effort and in the end i feel the score flattered saints.If we can show the same effort and spirit against some of the lesser teams we should be ok.

I think the score line flattered Saints we gave it a real good dig today and they got a couple of tries off us trying to force something late on the difference for me is when they brought Walmsley and Roby back on it turned the game for me

Far better effort, With players due back hopefully can do the full 80. Few need releasing though come end of the season.

I dont really like to single players out but Vaivai, he's turned into Kris Welham. We know there's a player in there, he showed us last season, but he's just gone backwards.
Better effort today which is what we needed to see, a couple of soft tries conceded again and a couple of dubious decisions again but we looked dangerous.
Now we need to back that effort up next week

Much better today and we had them rattled.Keep that level up and that should result in some wins which we desperately need. Think the score flattered Saints, not helped by the man with the whistle allowing Saints to get away with some blatant offences otherwise the score could and should have been much closer, or am I been too biased?
However a good display today, shame about the result.

Thought Oakes played well today Vai Vai for all his strength and power is lazy and never seems to do the hard work coming out like the other backs do

Happy with a lot of what we saw today, Remenbering how good a side saints are. We will cause a few upsets before the seasons over.

Yep. We aren't as bad as some portray. Quinlan and the props will shore us up.I want to see Crooks and Hall reunited but the left edge is a concern

Totally unrelated to the match but I think that it is worth a mention how much of a class act the Saints players were at full time. To be as good as they are and still so gracious and humble in victory is an absolute credit to them.

I think that they realised how outgunned Rovers were (not really a surprise) but our players earned their respect and our fanbase too for sticking with them.

Was brilliant to see.

I remember the 84-6 or was it 86-4 At home to Wigan few year ago and for all the negative reaction from oppo fans Sam Tomkins before the game and afterwards spent time on the pitch with the youngsters and was the only player from both sides to do same after the game,bearing in mind it was artic that day it was similar to Saints today. Class is being a good winner as well as a good loser.

Nick Pinkney especially, and Gwil slated Oakes nearly all match, deliberately stopping before contact was his exact terminology.

I said 6 weeks ago vai vai is a liability,hes not that good,probably there is a rugby player in there,but he's is lazy and couldn't tackle a sunday dinner,sadly with our injury situation we have little choice.A couple more worrying injuries as well,which could be a few weeks out.

He did do that a couple of times but I thought he was a lot better than he has been lately and he was made to look worse having Vai Vai next to him

It was interesting, I was switching between Humberside and Merseyside, were Chisnal & Schoey we’re praising Mulhearn and Oakes, Humberside we’re doing the opposite, all opinions I suppose.

Good performance by rovers, showed some resolve which we could do with.

Its interesting that were all banging on about how good we were and all the effort we put in but Saints scored twice as many tries as us and scored more than there seasons average too, i guess after a few poor performances a bit of effort really does go a long way haha

I got some of the humberside radio in the stand & was a little peeved with them Oaks is building into a good player & should get better & also will gain confidence from the game. As for Mullhern running to be tackled as opposed to running to bust a tackle! I could see Pinkneys point but unlike last year he is having to go long minutes as we are light up front, just maybe he is pacing himself to go 80 if needed?

As long as you come off that field giving all you have, most supporters will accept that.

Thats what i said in the OP, its just interesting what we really consider acceptable.

Take 3 poor defensive tries out (Makinsons, Grace and the one were we think Walmsley is tackled so just let him carry on) and its a very close game. Just little lapses in concentration and the TOP sides will punish you.
Most will see Makinsons and Graces tries as wonder tries by the way but the defence was terrible

Agree about the Makinson try but I’ve seen Grace do that a few times now give him a bit of space and he’s gone

I listened to nearly all the commentary but missed a bit, I'm sure I then heard Gwylym say the score had moved on to 26-41, which I was surprised at as I hadn't heard a drop goal mentioned.

Was I dreaming?, did Gwylym actually say that but had it wrong? Did Saints go for a DG but miss?

No that’s just probably Gwylum

He did say at the build up Sam tomkins would be a massive miss and I dont know how many time he said Laclan Cloot! Lol

Cracking try from Grace yeah, once our defence parted like the red sea haha.
And im not knocking Makinson's either, it took some scoring

I think the officiating was pretty poor for both sides but we certainly didn’t benefit from it more than you. One of our try’s was an obstruction but your first two try’s weren’t try’s with the second one being one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen to award it considering he was stood right in front of it.

The second was Shaws when he grounded the kick through infront of the ingoal judge which he had no issue with.
The refs annoyed me with daft things like awarding Saints penalties for a ball steal when the defender had already moved away from the tackle, then minutes later the ball flies out of a 3 man saints tackle and is given as a Rovers knock on.
Big teams get the rub of the green.

Great away support from Saints by the way.