I get you but Saints have had a lot of players grow old together (Makinson, Percival, Lomax, Walmsley, LMS, Roby etc) and we're not in that position. We have Cooper leaving and then after that there is only really Faz and Isa over the age of 30 and we have a pretty young squad. In fairness I'm not sure I would keep him and would at least like to look around and see if there is a decent (and younger) replacement we could bring in but if he did decide to play on and there wasn't much out there, I wouldn't be against him being a squad player again in 2025. There is also the possibility that he decides to play on elsewhere next year.

Harry Smith. Discipline. Bin.

Anyone know why we are playing in away kit ?

Tries conceded were quite soft. Few too many errors for a big game. But right in it.

Something to do with the brick charity.
Bloody madness

Our own worst enemy too many errors and penalties, kept inviting them into our half

Anyone got any stats for the number of times we lose possession on the first hit up?

Top start to the second half. Idiotic stuff.

Game set and match that burgess try, game over

I think our race is run this season, we've been utter e for weeks.

Just said the same.
We’ve all seen the sport enough to have a feel for games. This feels game gone.
2nd best in most areas, tonight.

Harry Smith has had a nightmare for the ages.

I used to think Hanley was the best player I’ve seen live but I’m starting to change my mind with French doing those things.

…Seen enough games to should know better

Got out of jail, tonight. And I bloody love it

To a man, they stood up tonight. It's astonishing how Field's game improves when Bevan is in front of him. The spine is starting to click again. Still lot's of areas to work on with discipline but will take that all day long. Take a bow Patrick Mago and Matty Peet for his tactics regarding the forwards.

I see the whining competition has started regarding the sin bins, but they were sin bins and i don't remember too many crying when Byrne was sent off in the CC semi last year.

Glad i was wrong haha but definitely much to improve with regards to errors and discipline

I thought throughout the game we looked the more dangerous, our left edge had them on toast throughout but our discipline was poor and we gifted them the advantage, I can’t remember them breaking through our line all game (could be wrong). I’m sure Hull KR will point at the 2 yellows (both justified) as costing them the game but I think it was our poor discipline that nearly cost us too. I thought it was the most dangerous we have looked for a while and we have basics to work on which can take us to the next level, Peet played a blinder holding Mago back and Mago was brilliant when he came on, MOM for me.
Need to back it up next week against our bogey side Leeds, winning the LLS would be nice but the route to the GF should be a lot easier if we finish top.

Agree with this but it was Shorrocks in the CC semi.

Can anyone remind me please, what is that route?

Finish top and we avoid Hull KR and Warrington until OT and for me these 3 are well ahead of the rest, although Leigh are coming on strong.

The play offs (as per previous season and I’m almost 100% this season) are:

3rd-6th
4th-5th

1st- lowest finishing winner of preliminary semis
2nd- highest finishing winner of preliminary semis

Winner-Winner at OT

Both sides will come out of that feeling confident.

Wigan were utterly ruthless and showed how to target an edge and also to exploit playing against 12 men.

French’s try was sensational and you simply can’t plan to defend that. Nsemba is just a monster and it’s frightening to think of how good he could be when he’s only 20.

Conversely HKR were 15 mins away from winning and arguably would’ve done without the yellow cards. Literally every try was scored when they were down a man.

They’ll still feel confident they can beat Wigan home or away. Losing Evalds pre match was a blow too.

Was frustrating to watch the attacking quality on show when you support a team whose attack consists of 5 drives and a kick, a drop off pass or give it to Welsby and hope he can do something

Looking around on social media, it's a shame the main feeling coming out seems to be that Wigan were somehow totally reliant on the refs calls to win the game. We bust them open all game and they scrambled unbelievably well to hold out. It finished 9 clean breaks to 2 and 5 tries to 3. We lost the penalty count again and HKR get 2 yellow cards that are hardly controversial by today's standards.

Now that's out the way, it was a pleasure to be at the game. The atmosphere electric and the game absolutely superb. Some performances on both sides were outstanding. Fair play to Paddy Mago, I wondered if he may lose his place before the end of the season and he produces that! Superb.

Great game even at 20-8 down didn’t feel like either side was done. Only saving grace for me we was cutting through them for fun at stages but struggled at time break them on their line and kr was opposite. Hopefully put this down to the banned/injured players being reintroduced. Ellis looked dangerous tonight really held up down the middle. Mago was introduced and cause havoc. Both cards were warranted and I do thing kalepi should have gone think his saving grace was there was only 12 on the field at the time

It literally wasn't though, French's try was against 13 men, for all their supposed dominance the only try KR scored in the second half once wigan cleaned up their errors and discipline was a 100m interception.

That’s the most sensible post I have read for a long time. If we control the l ball then we are going to be a very difficult team to beat. Our forwards dominated HKR tonight, it was the gifting of field position that nearly resulted in our downfall. Like all champion teams we found a way to win. HKR made very few errors and conceded few penalties, although the ones they did were crucial. Budgies was unforgivable. Personally, I would have given our first half performance a C rating and our second half a B. Our combinations will get much better over the next few weeks. HKR have a very difficult game at Leigh next week now taken a lot of petrol out of their tank.