Superleague is very poor these days, the standard of players is not good enough. For Saints we are just hanging on to the good start we had this season as the shock results unfold.
Our Saints side wouldn,t make the top 8 if you go back 5 or 6 years ago, of the 20 games so far we had 4 good wins, 5 bad losses and the rest have been very average.
If we happen to win the league leaders it won,t be achieved with convincing domination.

A win next week and we will finish the season in the top 8.

that says it all about this league

Did you see their line up mate?

They also had players playing everywhere. Chev walker played all over the place. They have no props and have been basically relagated with nothing to play for but pride.

Our attitude is awful. 40-0 up and all the back slapping and high fives start and we thing we are it. We should have put massive score on them to try and rebuild our points difference but yet again our poor attitude stopped that.

I actually think the standard of players is better, the problem is due to the league stucture, everyone knows that the games don't really matter so there's no intensity.

10-15 years ago everyone knew you had to get into the top 2 on stand a chance of winning and fought tooth and nail for it. Now they know it doesn't matter as long as you get in top 8.

10 years a go, we had Stuart Reardon, Keith Senior, Martin Gleeson and Richard Horne as England/GB's backline.

Now we have Watkins, Hall, Briscoe, Makinson, Charney etc

So IMO we have much much better English players in SL, more evenly spread across each team.

But I do think SL was better 10 years ago, simply because league games meant something. So there was an intensity to it. Franchising set the sport back years.

On the plus side it was good to see Amor back who played very well considering he's been out for so long, his footwork for a prop is as good as I've seen from a prop.

Mose put some real good runs in, they just couldn't stop him at times and needs 3/4 men to bring him down. He had few problems playing the ball. That's twice I've seen him play well now



Wello showed a good turn of pace for his 60m try.

The Tommy try was very good, good offload by Mose and then through hands, good turn of pace by Turner and good finish by Tommy.

Unfortunately all that Was overshadowed by a complete and utter dire last 20 mins.

Not quite, mathematically at least.

If hull lose today, then mathematically we can't finish below them either

Will we just switch off altogether when we a sure of a top 8 spot?

Quote ="St pete"Will we just switch off altogether when we a sure of a top 8 spot?'" At this point you can't help he but be concerned about it! Since this thread is underused: Stats from last night: www.superleague.co.uk/report/10033

Quote ="St pete"Will we just switch off altogether when we a sure of a top 8 spot?'" At this point you can't help he but be concerned about it! Since this thread is underused: Stats from last night: www.superleague.co.uk/report/10033

Some good meters made from Mose, Lms and walmsley. Good to see Percy only missing one tackle this week.

Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"At this point you can't help he but be concerned about it! Since this thread is underused: Stats from last night: www.superleague.co.uk/report/10033'" Decent stats, Laffranchi looks like bit of a passenger on those stats. Roby did not top the tackle count for once. Manu was a bit low on the carries too.

Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"At this point you can't help he but be concerned about it! Since this thread is underused: Stats from last night: www.superleague.co.uk/report/10033'" Decent stats, Laffranchi looks like bit of a passenger on those stats. Roby did not top the tackle count for once. Manu was a bit low on the carries too.

If looked like Boof run well at the game, I was surprised with those stats.

One good run can make your average look super (check LMS with his 1 clean break). Perhaps just one or two slips or hospital passes can make your stats look equally bad?