This sintellins team........thrive on being underdogs.

It's a one off game, coming in at headingly as underdogs suits saints down to the ground.

I never read too much into the easter fixtures of certain team because you have derby games where form goes out of the window, then you have the tricky short turnaround for mondays game where teams do different things regarding squad rotation and managing the short gap.

It's really not uncommon to see top title winning teams losing both easter fixtures.

Normal service will be resumed this week, for this sintellins team.

I don't think 'the S' are as convincing as FlexWheeler is trying to present them (I suppose it is a lower-risk tactic than bigging up the club that you actually support) - they were wobbling even before the Easter results.

As a Leeds fan there is a big concern that Leeds don't seem to be able to handle the favourites tag very well when it comes to big games, especially in the Challenge Cup, but also in the play-offs when they went out with a whimper after finishing 3rd last year. I think secretly most Leeds fans do fancy them to win some silverware this year, but are wary of appearing silly by making such predictions on a messageboard (FlexWheeler included). At this stage they look every bit as good for the double as Saints - but of course a lot can happen over the course of a season, such is the unpredictability of sport.

Whether or not Leeds actually are favourites to beat Saints at this stage of the season is a pretty subjective question. Anyone who claims otherwise is deluded or has an agenda, however veiled they try to make it seem.

I fancy wigan as much as saints, but I can hardly start another thread ''this wigan team......''.

When you see a trophy winning team like wigan quietly going about their business, and then turning it on for the big games, it spells danger for everyone else. Beat leeds in a couple of weeks, win the game in hand they are top, despite (by their own fans admission probably) hardly hitting their straps.

That reaks of trophy winning material for this season.

Well sentellens are back on their perch at the top of the table after a devastating 48-18 win over london in a performance so perfect in every way it was like god himself created it.

Lol, if that's been the Pies or Loiners they'd have hit treble figures mate, our team is 2nd graders and kids and although we've improved in recent weeks, I'd have taken a mere 5 try margin before kick off.

On the plus side, what a turnout, on a Thursday against the worst supported top-flight club in RL History, well done to you guys for that, though you do need a better coach, he's the only one in SL we Londoners wouldn't swap TR for, lmao!

Flex is a loiner

and I believe (hope) his statement was laced with more than announce of sarcasm!

Attendance did seem decent - but it was down ~500 from last year, which is a shame.

Can't help but admire the London teams spirit at the moment, they kept going no matter what.

Thats why those of us who have continued can't turn our backs on them now, last years lot, including the bunch now "doing so well" at other SL clubs just gave up, week in, week out, they were quitters, ......better players, true......but Quitters!

These kids play like they care, sadly they don't have the skill or experience to match, but we can't abandon them now.

Looks like they've woken up tonight

Saints have done well but Giants have being average at best. They've also had a load of help they don't need by Silverwood though, no knock on by Roby then calls Brough's when it went no-where near his hand..he's a an absolute dog of a referee

Which all led to a reef that was given as a knock on - and when Wilkin repeats it's given as a knock on even though it went backwards.

Silverwood has been rubbish - but it's had absolutely no bearing on the score thus far.

Do You really believe that went backwards? he clearly stripped it and it went forward.

But i agree it hasn't had a real bearing on the result so far not like Brough's terrible performance.

Ish, it hit his thigh and did (using the line on the pitch) go backwards - but as I've said at numerous times I've no complaints of a knock on given when a player clearly loses the ball ...

I would of used Ferres (?) sheparding the dummy runner and stopping in defence looking for a penalty ... But thought that would be a little too controversial

I would have give that a try as well but whoever was standing in the defensive line made it a no try technically.

Silverwood has been appalling tonight, but not as bad as the Giants.

Really bad performance from him, 5 forward passes, 2 blatant knock ons he only got 1 decision right for a forward pass.
Yet again inconsistent of calling held and moving off the mark at the play the ball on a positive note he wasn't as bad as the touch judges who don't see anything.

Of course you were there and near enough to comment on these decisions. And lets face it, it definitely wasn't the players who messing about around the PTB or trying to milk penalties and generally bend/break the rules. They were all "perfect" CONSISTANTLY

saints did what they had to, which was turn up and do the basics, they were pretty average and made to look briliant by a poor effort from huddersfield, even bradford would have beaten us last night!

Shush, Huddersfield were amazing. It's just that Saints were world class last night, that's why Huddersfield *looked* average.

That's what some saints fans I know said anyway. Deluded much?

You are very bitter towards us for some reason. Are you worried we may thump you back for the drubbing you gave us at Magic? Well, the drubbing we [iallowed[/i you to give us because we were very poor and we made an average team look good anyway.

It was a pretty boring match between Hudds and Saints. Hudds were very poor indeed.

we have been pretty poor all season to be perfectly honest, apart from the first game at wigan we have not really played well in any other games, but we are 5th going into the 2nd half of the season and hopefully with a fully fit squad we can improve, we have to improve if we are to seriously challenge wigan/leeds/wire/saints.

Huddersfield fans make me laugh.

When teams give them a thrashing they slyly deflect any credit/remove credit for the opposition by bemoaning how poor huddersfield were.

Yet when roles are reversed, huddersfield fans get chippy when the quality of the opposition is questioned. ''WHAT ABOUT HUDDS? WE DESERVE CREDIT! WE DESERVE PRAISE! PRAISE US!''

In fact theres a similiar thread on your board regarding bradford last week.

Huddersfield are an average team who will be making up the numbers this season. They won 1 playoff game last season and I imagine they'll win one this season. Maybe now the full scale of how meaningless their achievment last season was will sink in for those who proclaimed it like it as the second coming.

I think that's a harsh appraisal of Hudds. I reckon they're dark horses come playoff time. They've shown they can beat those around them and quite convincingly at times. IF fit come season end then their team is capable of having a 3/4 week purple patch were they could beat those other contenders around them.

Their fortunes this season seem to be more based around attitude and effort rather than quality, which I think they do have enough of. Those attitudes and effort can be massively different once you get to the business end of the year, whereas a lack of quality can't be hidden.

calm down dear.
i wasn't deflecting any praise away from saints, i just don't think they played particularly well either they just tackled better, passed better,ran harder than we did, they were better than we were in every department i have said so on another thread.
i have also said many times this season when we have won games when we haven't played well that had we played a better team we could have struggled to win ( bradford away,wakefield home and london away) we weren't particularly good but won because the opposition were poor, same happened on friday, saints were average and convincingly beat a poor team on the night.

it must hurt a bit that leeds haven't beaten this average team in 7 games now despite being far superior than we are?

Don't be silly, Warrington were just world class on the day and made us look very average, despite us putting everything we had into the game. AGHHHHH THE HYPOCRISY. IT HURTS