Mitch is injured for the record

Spot on joey is never a halfback get him at dummy half and hodgson has to bite the bullet and move Connor to 6

I actually got Hodgson's thoughts there.

Reynolds and Lovodua went well against Catalans. Just didn't work tonight..

Brace yourself

i agree to stick with Wynne but Mitch wasnt even in the 21 but someone has mentioned now that he is injured

Ah well good first 40
Crap second 30

Is our fitness an issue?

Onto Wigan

Absolute nonsense

Saints are busted after last week we had a week off

Mautatia playing centre, Lomax half fit at best, a youngster at 6

We won't do anything while our fans have this defensive attitude whys it always next season?

We should of won tonight one of the strongest teams we've had all season did nothing while they was down to 12

Just looked massively disjointed for the first 30 minutes of the 2nd half, and guilty of overplaying again at times even though we'd not earned the right through hard work. Had a decent chance to beat them tonight so it's a very disappointing loss.
Need to be much better against Wigan.

1 Shaul (let the pile on begin)

6 Connor
7 Gale

9 Lovodua

I'd prefer to see Litten given a shot, even if it is throwing him in at the deep end. But if he's not up to it the yes, Shaul at 1.

Have to say i am starting to agree with you about Connor not producing against the better teams
together with Reynolds he was poor
Ball handling is all well and good but its not enough to compensate for his lack of pace,and support play plus terrible defence
If we are going to keep him then he has to move into the halves and play Shaul at full back until Litten is ready. Signing an attacking full back like French or Field is a priority for next season

Thankfully again people are starting to realise what I've been saying for a long time Houghton isn't close to a good hooker

Funny I said for ages Connor isn't a top full back and people eventually noticed that aswell

Thought we had a chance second half, but some of our lads haven’t been good enough in defence(or attack) specially out wide. Griff doesn’t look fit and Wynne and Shaul have been run ragged by Lomax and Hurrell. As for our 6, what can you say,…..our kicking isn’t great either. Losing Fash meant one forward short on interchange and you need them against a team like Saints, who are a super team and did the business on us. Not too despondent about tonight. Losing to Saints away 24-10 is not the end of World.

Yep if we played toulouse or Sheffield for 28 games Connor would be a superstar

But we don't.... we are judged against top sides aswell

What is disappointing is it was a stupid kick by Connor trying for a 40/20 with 2 minutes to go that started the rot.
Then the usual penalty on the first tackle and saints are in our 20 and score a try with 1 minute to go before half time.
Its game management and we dont have any

Who has played well consistently against Saints/Wigan/Catalans/Warrington over the last four years?

Saints defense is awesome. It would take a special performance to break them down and we didn't get one. We challenged for a while but at the end of the day we lack the halfbacks to beat the champions.

Our kicking was poor througout. I don't know what the solution is to that. We need Gale to play at his best but we just haven't see it yet. I wonder what the club is thinking for next year there.

The 40/20 attempt he missed by a whisker?

Think that's an overreaction.

We’ve fallen well behind the top teams on fitness. We always look knackered and fade away in the second half like tonight.

Our pack have , but our spine creativity lack of pace let’s us down

If we are looking at moving Connor then McIntosh at fullback and get Mitch on the wing. Shaul defense not good enough now for full back

Shaul is shot at this level for me.

Can’t fault the effort but lack of composure cost us.
Saints again showed us how far behind we are.

Griff doesn’t look fit

more like disinterested
Wynne was giving Hurrell a torrid time for a while in the first half but for some reason the team switched the attack to the other wing.
Hurrell should have been targeted more to sap his energy as once his gas has gone he is not the same player.
Dont know who makes these decisions on the field but that was a big mistake

That was just the typical sort of performance I've come to expect from us against a top side, full of effort mixed in with ill discipline, a lack of creativity and a lack of game management. Saints plan seemed to be to rattle Wynne and it worked.