we didn't play well in first half- partly down to bradfords defense. as you say, bradford seemed tired in the second half and
our backs got a bit more space. whatever team you field next week, like normal you'll be on fire. there's been a
a good few games in the past 2/3 years when i've thought we should have a chance of winning but everytime you
seem pull something from the ashes. next week will be brilliant, win lose or draw. it'll be a packed house
full of proper rl lancastrains. i have to say though, i'd love it if we won.

If this happens, I am giving up RL, joining a monastery and take a life long vow of silence.

Saddened! says the same thing everytime.

Whole team has changed its alot more attacking now and our goal line defence is top notch.

All the players are stepping up and offloading.

King, Mona's and Wood have been playing out off there skins this season and the others aint been bad either.

Matt King now looking like the same King who gave NRL teams and Queensland nightmares.

yes. very.

I know i*m not from the heartland of Rugby League but 1 thing i have learned from this Great Game of ours is that i would never ever write Saints off.

(c) C Joynt 2002

I think oldham is pretty much slap bang in the middle of the heartlands

i second this! i don't think i can cope with another drop goal in the last few minutes. when sean long went to hull, i thought yes, no more drop goals, but then i realised that it will be kyle eastmond. it will be the same game as always, warrington will be winning the majority of the game, all the wire fans get really hyped up thinking we are going to win, (last few minutes) drop goal gets kicked! saints win!
gonna be devastating if saints screw us over AGAIN!
gonna be an absolute brilliant game, and still cant believe it isnt going on sky. maybe bbc should hold the game?! it is going to be a game which is not to be missed.

I don't expect them to because I think they'll raise their game but if Wire play at the same level next week as they did tonight you'll win without question. I still can't believe we manged to lose to that Bradord side last week! They really are very very average especially with ball in hand. They tried pretty hard tonight but alot of the time with Bradford it really doesn't matter what the forwards or halfbacks produce beacuse the outside backs simply aren't good enough to do anything on the back of it.

The Bradord 1-5 is unbelievably poor.

Let's get this into perspective. They beat a Bradford side that didn't make the play offs last season and have only (arguably) improved in the scrum half department, whilst losing players like Morrison and an excellent goal-kicker in order to do so. Wigan threw the game away last week, it was more to do with Wigan's errors tham Bradford's excellent play.

Bradford will struggle again this season as I have said before, despite what Stevo thinks. One player doesn't make a team. So let's not try and turn them into a yardstick, we did a similar job on them away from home.

Thing is mate we can defo play at a better level the first half was the worst I have see us play this season bar that 15 min spell against you, it only took one part of a half to click to blow them away and once we got a few tries I felt they took the foot off abit, hopefully Briers is back Grix just doesn't have his kicking game

Your right about Briers,either way i cant wait for friday night.If the players we need are back then i can see yet another classic Saints V Wire,
.The way this seasons going for everyone any predictions are pointless !

Good grief! Does this Saddened character only have a wrong way of getting out of bed?

I am the one that gives balance to the force. Without me this place would descend into a haze of positivity and ultimately collapse into doom as thousands of hearts were broken in an instant. I unite the force and keep the world turning.

Monas is the danger man from dummy half. Outstanding.

Whereas I think Warrington have been a great attacking side for years, it's just that we could always guarantee your defence would let us in! But defensively Smith has done wonders. If you can maintain that, and if our defence is as poor as it has been and our attack as inconsistent, then you're in for a win. If Saints pull up their pants and actually make a good showing, it's anyone's game IMO. Personally, I hope Saints do make a good showing because I really would like to watch a cracking game of rugby league and when Wire and Saints are performing well, there's no better pairing to watch in Superleague these days.


I'll take your word for Monaghan and Wood as I've only noticed King but that is probably because King was so poor under Cullen that his metamorphosis has really stood out. But jeez, his hair. I thought Longy was bad, but his efforts pale by comparison to King's!

If i am being honest, i am not that worried. Yes the wolves look good this year and yes they have a very good coach but they are not as good as they think.

If we have wello, gidley, sia and co back i think it will be very very close game. For about a hour( until worrincy came on) the bulls was well in the game. A few missed kicks by bulls and a little luck with being held up over the line and the bulls would have run them very close.

We did but we didn't offload this much, Mona's has been on fire this season its just King is playing unreal and keeps getting the spotlight, now Atkins is off the mark hopefully him and King will only get better they linked up very well last night.

Is Gidley a cert to be back?

We gave Bradford the first two trys from stupid mistakes we got our act together in the second Bradford could of played till 1 am in the second half and they still wouldn't of got through that defence.

Think that was more to do with how poor Bradford were in the second half.

Not sure if anyone's back pal, i hope so. While i agree the wolves was awesome in that 15-20 min spell that you blew the bulls away,if you was up against a top saints, leeds or wigan side on form, the game would of been over by then.

Bulls was unlucky by a good wolves goaline defence, another day they could have got over and been held up. Also missed kicks let bulls down a liitle bit.

The wolves have only have had pressure on them in one game this year and they fell apart aginst wigan.

there was pressure on us to go to huddersfield and to respond from being beaten by 2points at home to wigan. With no Briers we responded.

Poor or not we did the job and we did it well.