Not at them prices

My thoughts are that Saints have had an easy ride their first two games. We come out with the same resilience in defence and intensity and focus and there’s no reason why we can’t beat them.



As others have said, Saints haven’t been tested. They have shipped points but they’ve had to do absolutely zip other than run through the middle vs Cas. The missed tackle count from Cas was huge.



There are a couple of key danger areas we need to manage:



Wellsby is a threat and we need to be ensuring to watch him both in open back field after a kick and whether probing the line looking to draw a man and pass to the edges. We haven’t been shooting out in defence so if we continue not to do that unless it’s tactical then I’m confident we can manage that.



I noticed they are putting on Walmsley and Paasi and they bring good go forward. That needs to be stunted with good strong defence for the spells they are on together.



We should believe in ourselves though. Absolutely no reason we can’t win with a similar effort to the first two games. As many people have said, we play as we have been and we will win more than we lose.

HKR were sat on a row of plastic chairs at the weekend in front of the new seats in the dugout!

They were keeping them warm for St Helens.

Very light on the bench again. Asking a lot of McMeeken with Atoni only just returning. Surprised Faatilli didn't get a bench spot as insurance over Croft.

Very light on the bench again. Asking a lot of McMeeken with Atoni only just returning. Surprised Faatilli didn't get a bench spot as insurance over Croft.

We weren’t going to win with the amount of handling errors. We gave it a good go in spells but that’s not enough against St Helens.  Don’t know why Jowitt kept going for the cut out pass when it wasn’t working. Johnstone and Walmsley for catching practise.

We weren’t going to win with the amount of handling errors. We gave it a good go in spells but that’s not enough against St Helens.  Don’t know why Jowitt kept going for the cut out pass when it wasn’t working. Johnstone and Walmsley for catching practise.

Decent effort but made far too many mistakes. Dropped so many passes out wide. Luckily, Saints were also a bit off the pace in attack otherwise we could have been looking at a much bigger margin.