doesn't appear to be one thread about the match, so i'll throw a new post on..



i've not read through all the threads put there doesn't appear to be too much doom and gloom. we looked like a team who played 4 days ago to me, looked very tired and made silly mistakes. wigan are no better than us, they just handled the conditions better. their two tries came from our silly mistakes, the first as a result of being pushed off a scrum (although o'loughlin was clearly out the scrum before he should have been) and then faasavalu knocking on in our 20. the first try came from meli, then roby missing the ball, and then poor defence to let feka in, the tries were hardly from sweeping passing movements. similarly saints tries came from a kick, and a barge over from 5 yards..



i thought wigan defended well (as did saints) but kept hold of the ball far far better, i think they dropped the ball once in the first half, as opposed to saints who dropped far too much ball. in the second half saints SHOULD have scored, and had plenty chances to do so, dean only had to pass it backwards to meli and he'd have walked in, again (sorry to blame dean again) he should have been able to get the ball down as well on another occasion.



the much billed tomkins - eastmond matchup didn't happen, both did very little, tomkins first kick was excellent, then he preceded to kick it straight down pryce's throat for the rest of the match, he made two breaks at the end, and both times he failed to do anything with them. eastmond struggled to take any grip on the match.



i thought thaler was an absolute disgrace, far too many penalties (on both sides) and killed the game as a spectacle. and missing a few forward passes, graham's to flanno was a mile forward, so much so the scaff even shouted forward



it hurts like hell losing against that shower, but all the talk of winning the last game on good friday isn't a massive issue to me, memories against wigan at knowsley road go much further than 80 minutes today. i also think that should saints win the GF in october today will be forgot, if wigan win the GF, i don't think they'll be thinking too much about today either..



keep the faith, we'll be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

FFS This must be a first, me agreeing with nearly everything Saddened has to say. Especially about that pedant Thaler ruining what should have been a classic.

We were out-enthused in the first half and our execution in the Goons 20 zone in the second half was not good enough.

Anyone who doesnt think St Helens dominated that game obviously wasnt watching properly.



That said, and I said in the trolling thread, we lost, wigan won, thats all that matters.

And yet we are the leagues top try scorers.



Never mind, don't let your lack of knowledge of the game cloud your bias. So bitter



Our time has come!

Not if you play like you did today.

"Not really. On that evidence Wigan don't have the attacking threat to win SL."



Hold on a minute.. We dont have the attacking threat?! But yet we have put 38 past Crusaders, 32 past KR, 58 past Catalan, 48 past FC, 38 past Cas, 24 past Leeds and 18 past you men.. And to add we have a +182 points difference.. It's not how you beat teams, its the beating of teams and you can only beat the team that is infront of you on the day.. We are top of the league for a reason.

You are top of the league after 9 games. It doesn't matter at all. It's form in the PLAYOFFS that win you SL trophies. You lot are talking like it's already won and how your side is 'superb' and 'dominant'. They were rubbish today, way, way off what a SL winning side needs to be. You put scores on a few sides at home? So what? Huddersfield put a ridiculous scoreline on Wakefield and that doesn't stop them being Huddersfield does it?



If you have scored the most tries in SL and have won the SL trophy in October I'll admit I'm wrong. I suggest you all bookmark this post now so you can all have it in your signatures WHEN, not if, WHEN it happens.

I think wigan attack pretty good. When they move the ball wide they look a threat everytime. The movement and dummy running when they move the ball wide is very good.



Maybe potter should watch and learn. They didn't have much field postion in the 2nd half but that was down to good defence by saints and lack of good gp forward but when they did move the ball it was free flowing.



Put it the way, if wigan was camped on our line for 30mins like we was on there line, it would have been a much bigger win for the pies.

To say Wigan has no attacking threat is quite funny. It was pouring down the entire game, a local derby away from home and we were put on our own line time and time again by giving away penalties in the second half. We are the leagues top points scorers but on Friday our defence won us the game

Yea, apart from having the 2 top try scoring wingers in the league in Richards and Roberts.........



oh and we are the leagues top points scorers aswell.......



No attacking threat though what so ever.......

Two tries, that's all your team managed with all your attacking threats ...

We played the conditions, and played them well.