I was gutted as I sloped away from easily the most inept performance I've seen in years, but realised Leeds' hammering at home by Quins means the game simply doesn't matter in terms of winning the hubcap and getting the prime play off position.

FWIW I thought Meli, Maurie and Roby were half decent tonight. The less said about the rest the better, particularly Gilly.

I would also like to plead with Harry Potter for James Graham to be rested sometime very soon. Purrrleease.

Arrogance. There's more than two teams in this league.
And more this year than ever the competitive nature is higher than ever

Why,has he played in australia for the past six seasons or something...

It's not arrogance, Saints are not realistically going to finish lower than 2nd are they? I'm not suggesting we couldn't lose, but the results between the 'other' sides are so completely random that Saints will make the top 2.

It was just taking it for granted. There's a long way to go in the title race, and saints and leeds have been hardly rampant have they

Yet we're still 1 and 2 and Saints are what 6 points clear of 3rd already?

i think he meant it didnt matter in terms of the table, loosing could have closed the gap to 2 points but because leeds lost it still stays the same and its a gd time to loose really, having a massive winning streak behind your backs dosnt always work well

Exactly.

Saints beat themselves tonight by simply putting in a pathetic display all round. Apart from a ten minute purple patch, we were awful summed up by our last tackle play in the 1st half where we went from the 10 metre line to handing the ball over on half way!

Full credit to Bradford, they played with more enthusiasm and deserved the points.

Exactly we really didn't deserve to win. Bradford were the better team on the night and deserved to take the points

Same old story.... the only team that can beat Saints is...... Saints

All you little clubs have yourself a jolly good Mc Magic thingy

The truth is the standard of RL in this country is cr@p.

It's been leveled down for the last 10 years.

Competitive yes, quality no.

Next week would seem the perfect opportunity

In a sense I was glad we lost. We are still four points clear, and the players need to realize that they cant get complacent.

A good kick up the backside

In a way, I agree. Saints are clearly the best team in the competition, but they often believe their own hype and come unstuck. Tonight was one of those occasions.

We should be really determined to bounce back next week, in what is a perfect game for us.

Well ok but did you have to lose to Bradulls I had them down for a right thumping tonight.

You'd best get your s into gear and start challenging then, how many points behind us are you?

Four points at present but you'll have to wait until after the rest of this weekend's games to find that out for sure. Saints lead will be down to two points if Huddersfield or Wakefield win and Leeds could be as low as 5th come Monday morning.

I think that we have proved that getting prime play-off position doesn't matter either over the past two seasons..............

But I still like to win the hub cap!

Bl00dy Hell has AP hacked your account ?

Exactly
Feet back on the ground, good training week and ready for the scum next week

i noticed wev'e started getting a few points scored against us (usually in the later part of the game).is it 78 points from the last 3 games then?

The effort put into the challenge cup game at Leeds and the massive defensive effort we put in at Wigan has finally caught up on us and there has been signs of that through the last two games. It not only causes us to leak points but even with ball in hand we aren't going to be as potent consistently. Hopefully we rest up this week and are refreshed and ready to go at MM next week.

absaloutly spot on, arrogance,

Arrogance is well earnt. Defeat brings us in line and reminds us that we occasionally need to plant our feet back on the ground.

I heard the same in the eighties from my grandad, referring to the 60/70's.

It's a generation thing, and I'm afraid your generation are all but senile!