Am I the only one who didn't go tonight? I've got a very good excuse tonight before you ask.



But anyway, the game. Do Saints realise it's kicked off yet, or are we just completely knackered after last weeks efforts, like I suggested we would be? Even Mick Potter has been nodding off when Sky have panned to his mug on Sky, he keeps sipping Vodka and red bull to keep it going. Our ball retention has been poor, I don't think Gilly has been tackled yet, he's dropped it on every touch he's had. The tackling around the play the ball is non existant and Wigan have been cutting us to bits down the middle because of it and the ease with which they can offload.

Wigan's defense has impressed me, they have denied us any sort of territory even on the play in which we've not made an error. We are lucky to still be in the game, 6-6 is quite miraculous, we've scored from one of two possessions in their half and they been camped in our half yet they've only scored from an unplanned grubber.

Is it the dreaded rain? Surely it's worth questioning if it could be abandoned about now?

Fark me, if we are giving that as a try we should pack up and go home now.

Forward pass to build it up and two of the three camera views were CONCLUSIVELY no tries. B$ollocks call. Wigan deserve it, this is the worse we've played in many a year, but they don't need help like that.

Yep, that was never a try!!!! He looked out from every angle, very strange decision.

17 missed tackles and 10 clean breaks to 3. It's comprehensive in all but the scoreline so far.

he just lift his knee, but agreed with the forward.

Thaler should be shot. Now he's checking if his eyes are in fact working by referring the most obvious decision ever to the video ref. Perhaps after seeing Ainscough dig a tunnel out of the white line without touching it he thought he'd better check to see if Gidley was even there or whether it was another ghostly aparition (sp?)?

Betting Head: Never A Try!...
Leeds Rhinos Head: Superb Finish To Stay In The Field Of Play!...

Laws of physics still apply though. His knee couldn't fall any further because it was on the ground, it then lifted because of the impact.

Great try Leon, superb kick.

Karma or what?

This referee is certifiable.

No game breaking high shot in front of the posts there referee?

His performance tonight has been absolutely ridiculous.

cracking game though.

Great game to watch. But the referee is appalling.

He is getting worse!

"Play on, play on, play on" Graham gets up and runs, "4th" "Phweeeeeeep"

They should sue him.

Kyle for president.


Another point, who the feck is Sam Tomkins? Why didn't he play tonight? And where's Martin Gleeson? Why not give him a debut this week?

Massive from Wello there. Knocked into Hindley by Phelps and gets up chucking up blood. I would personally have suggested lying down and crying.

Hope he's okay, could have lost a few teeth or the front of his jaw there. Terrible knock.

All in all a superb win. Grinded it out when at the lowest ebb of our energy levels, superb professionalism from the boys tonight again.

I've never seen Thaler give so many penalties around the PTB, unfortunately they were all against you.

The knock-on where Wigan got another six from Tomkins' error was one of the worse, ever.

PS

Clarke is in floods of tears on the inside.

Great game for the neutral....



Championship form if you can stay healthy.

Thaler had a nightmare.

Wigan's second try was a mile forward, no matter if his knee was in touch or not.

When he gave Wigan 6 to go when Tomkins knocked on.

Then when he shouted "play on, play on, play on, 4 play it" with about half a second in-between.

Thank God the Goonies are crap.

I gotta say your guys were superb tonight, really thought Wigan could win as they had things in their favour but what a gritty effort. Gonna take some stopping this season.

Eastman has a great future too.

But hopefully it will rain again on GF day

Talk about blind as a bat...

1) Cunningham's try shouldn't have counted, it was a knock-on.

2) Wellens lifted Hock's arm, that try SHOULD have counted.

3) The knee was CLEARLY off the ground for Ainscough's second.

4) The better team lost, you were lucky, yet surprisingly you didn't play as dirty as you normally do. I actually can't complain about Pryce or Wilkin, except for the fact that Pryce isn't yet behind bars.

5) Wigan vs Saints makes a strong case for still being the top derby.

6) You still need to beat us three more times to level your Super League account against us.

7) Don't bother arguing with me, because again, you know I'm right, and also I'm not sticking around for the tirade of abuse and bias that I always get in here. You'd think I'd learn, but I'd rather you did.

Take this much from me... for once, you won and I can't blame Saints for cheating. The referee/video referee did it all for you, so I'm not going to tirade against the usual dirty players. For once, I'm actually quite happy with Saints performance on the field and I'll let you have this one. But playing by the rules clearly showed there's very little to choose between us. I reckon the end of the season will have us with equal wins and losses against each other provided you carry on playing by the rules.

The end.

p.s. Hope Wellens is ok. One of the few players for Saints I bear no ill will towards. I wouldn't have been saying that if it had been Cunningham, Graham, Wilkin or Pryce, believe me.