22-0 to hudds at h/t

Sadly, i'm banned from the saints board

I think it may be a while before I stop laughing tonight.

Try their predictions thread, you will still be giggly at Easter!!

It's the only solution.

And possibly the explanation.

Don't read too much into it, as much fun as we have all had tonight at their expense, we all know better than to write them off after just one game.
As poor as Saints were, Huddersfield were bloody good.

Big one next week for us.

Not just next week, Warrington and then Hudds based on that performance look hard games.

I've not had the pleasure to watch it yet but it is on Sky plus ready and waiting.

The thing is though as funny as it is it means little. Saints will go well this year IMO and losing their first of 27 pretty meaningless league games won't do them much harm, infact it may serve to kick them up the backside.

Nathan Brown lost the keys to the gym it seems. Physically dominated and really not ready for the season. His conditioning staff are either incompetent or have a master plan to peak at the right time.

The outside backs of Hudds ran over the top of their pack.

Perry is a disgrace of a player.

That Fielden lad looks a shrewd signing.

Don't laugh to much, me being one of the older Wigan fans I have the experience to stand back and not get giddy with these early season results.

Saints have studied what has happened during the last few seasons, Wigan and Wire have got away from the rest and then Leeds have come up on the blind side and blown the rest out of the water.

Saints have a cunning plan, look crap most of season and then come roaring through.
They have even gone to the extreme of disguising Paul Whellens to look older than he is with that beard that makes him look like Kieser Bill.
All part of the plan.

Agreed, if the boot was on the other foot they would be making far more noise that we are, of that you can be sure... In fact, Wellens looked decidedly nippy, by comparison, in that back-line today...

or maybe the players wont ply for "agent Brown" ?
Huddersfield players switched off last year mid season?
Maybe its the coach?

Fielden had a very good game as did Kopczak, another signing. Huddersfield on the whole look a much stronger team this season and their new signings have added a lot to the team. They have a strong pack with pace and size in the backs and will take some beating on their day.

You can't help but feel we should have kept Fielden if for no other reason then him being an experienced head to play alongside guys like Mossop, Dudson and Taylor.

He looked very good tonight as did Kopzack and the whole Huddersfield team.

We could in no way justify matching Fielden what Huddersfield were offering him considering he had only played a couple of games in 2 years. Good luck to him though, hope he has a fantastic injury free season.

Why on earth not?

Unless we thought he was a crock which I am sure we didn't given the fact we let Lima leave early we needed an experienced player like him. Hudds just proved [upacks win matches[/u and their pack especially the front row looks considerably better than ours and Fielden is part of the reason why.

We on the other hand seem to think Prescott plus Laukai as senior props plus inexperienced players like Taylor and Dudson is the way to go. I haven't seem a weaker Wigan front row for some time and the galling thing is it is largely because we let Lima leave and couldn't be d with Fielden - both our players.

The past few seasons have shown that regular season form and league placing means little as long as you get into the play-offs in decent shape.

Agreed. I thought Saints' no-show appeared seemed to owe to more than just ring-rustiness.

You can't help wondering about Nathan Brown. His antics in the last couple of years at Huddersfield put a big question-mark against his judgement, as have certain comments he's made in public in the past.

Is he really a good coach, or is he all mouth?

Unfortunately this result means nothing to either team. With the playoff structure as it is, success is what happens in the last 8 weeks of the season. Last season Leeds were crap for the first 2/3 of the season, remember Wigan scored 50 points at Headingley in early season but it meant nothing, Then Leeds went on to be champions.
It's all about getting into the top 5 when it counts, remember Hudds beat Warrington and Wigan in their first games yet slumped badly when it counted.

I'm not sure they'll be consoling themselves with that thought in St Helens today. Or that McManus will be so dismissive of the result.

Teams have a duty to entertain their paying fans.

A few more performances like that, and the fans will start staying away. Try telling a club it doesn't matter then.

It's worrying that the RFL can't see how irrelevant the reg season has become. People have stopped going to games because of it and that is the most worrying thing of all

An amusing and accurate (and somewhat heartfelt) comment from a Saints fan about last night:

[iWello's not just over the hill, he's fallen down it into a ditch and his carcass is being chewed on by passing animals.[/i

A few more games like that might well see the return of Rush and KFC.

Another pearler, this concerning Josh Perry ...

[iThe only thing he will be remembered for his time at saints is being arrested for his naked run on mad Monday - bet that was easiest arrest police ever made and managed to drive him 10 yards back up the street before cuffing him!! [/i