Just watching the Sky+ now. Missed tackles in the first half? Zero. That's incredible. That today is probably the best Saints performance in years.

Saints of old, fantastic atmosphere and all 3 side singing nice one....





Regards





Jock...

Credit where its due well done Saints .

There's a few senior players that have questions to answer over what they've been up to so far this season and to what they've done to earn their wages, of that there is little doubt.

Was an absolute pleasure to be at langtree park tonight. Not felt an atmosphere like that for a while.



SAINTS ARE BACK

I'd recorded the match to watch after kids' bedtime. Have to say I wasn't looking forward to it. What a lovely surprise. Not just the score, but seeing a Saints side passing the ball, breaking the line and supporting the runner. So much better to watch than the one-man-up stuff we've had so much of. Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's some collective guilt by the players that they lost Simmons his job. But let's hope they can keep it up for at least another two weeks, hey ?

Spot on. And they know it too.

It's a chicken and egg thing though isn't it.



We can say well they should have done that for Royce, but if the plan was not right under Royce then how could they???



It's like saying, ok boys Royce has told us to do x , y and z all week, we all know it's pants so back on the bench, don't turn up on Friday night well get a forward in.

TP I know your down to prop, but forget it just run out wide like a loose forward.

Guys, we've been told, hold the ball inside our own 40, but actually scrap that and get those offloads going.

Lance Gaskell and Lomax are playing in the half backs but you sneak in there and take control from them.



etc etc etc....



We say they have to play to a plan but if that plan does not work we say they should be good enough to do better or must not be following the plan. This week they follow a different plan and we say they should have done that last week.

Just a reality check





9 th St. Helens

Played 8

Won 3

Drew 1

Lost 4

Points for 220

Points Against 161

Point difference 59

Game point 7



There is still a huge amount of damage to undo and the next 2 games are no gimmies by any stretch of the imagination. We are still more likely to hit Easter outside the top 8 than inside it. Even if we beat Warrington we will still be 4 points behind them. Not trying to be pessimistic, 1 win out of 3 in the next set of games looks good when you see Leeds Wire Wigan. But it looks less good when you look at where we are in the league. In reality to get back in the fight we need to beat one of Warrington or Wigan. If we could beat both then it really would be game on. But I'd be happy for a good performance and close games to show we are up there, then try and get a run together to get as high as we can, before we meet them again.

That's the most fun I've had watching Saints in a while.



Not only did the whole team move well, but they did so at pace, which pushed and pulled the Leeds defence all over the shop and allowing our runners to take advantage.



You could see that every play the defence had a few things on their mind, rather than a single prop rumbling towards them.



Who knows how long this will last, how much is down to [ishock factor[/i and how much is the new coaching approach, but we crammed mroe good rugby into that 80 minutes than we have in 7 games previous.

Anybody else want sunday rugby back it was brilliant, the atmosphere was the best since the Millward days.

Very true, alot of those options came through Lance taking first receiver. He could pick forward either side, or run cross field and take a wider option, or spread the ball to Lomax. It was good to see.