No problem with the result, for me the best team won. More disappointed with our performance, defence apart we were very poor.

A very good effort by FC with so many players out, as some have said the game was there to be won.



Having seen the posts responding to a "our season over " post, does your perspective on the rest of the season not show that the current system gives teams more to fight for especially as one team is looking likely to run away to take the league leaders shield again?



Any team can get injuries so Sts losing Barber or Wire losing Hill could have a major impact on the rest of the season.



Whatever plan they come up with for the SL it needs to keep as many teams playing until the season end as possible. I wouldnt want to be joint top of SL going to the last game knowing our competitors are playing a team with nothing to play for.

Great post.



IMO that would improve Wire, he has gone backwards at a rate of knots this season. Baffles me why he is a shoe in for England

I don't think Wigan's problems are behind them after that result, that 4th spot still up for grabs in my opinion , think wigan will lose more than they win, we just need some bodies back and put a good run together

Highlights now online, whether Flower is offside when the drop kick is attempted is debatable.



First try is difficult to see, probably ok.

I thought that at the time about consulting the touch judge , only reason I could think was he was asking him if they were onside from the kick through . Like to see the try again but I thought he grounded it over the line .

Aren't Wigan 6 points ahead of us with a game in hand? Hmm. I agree we have players coming back at the right time but the cohesion that Saints are showing, and in some ways that we did the last 2 years is that the same players have been on the pitch week in week out and are match fit. Like you, really hope we can put a strong run together with a steady flow of returning players.

If you play it frame by frame, both feet are about a foot (no pun intended) behind the ball

When Tomkins leaves go of the ball, Flowers is about a foot in front of him, so I guess it all depends on how the drop goal rule is defined.



A couple of ambiguous interpretations to ponder....



"Offside if.....

He is in front of the rugby league ball.

He is in front of a ball and it is then kicked."



"The rules say that to be onside at a kick, an active player not in possession of the ball, must be behind the player who kicks the ball."

We lost against one of the top teams - again

We didnt respect the ball - as usual

We wasnt clever enough at the right times - as usual



As ive said before were a dumb team that even with a full compliment is still dumb - Radford says the same after just about every loss but nothing changes



Were a 95% team, can do so much good but can be soo stupid and amateur at times that it outweighs the good - i believe thats the coaching and whilst Radford is coaching we will not change unless he gets help - he could do with a an experienced coach as his assistant, someone who could help squeeze out those extra %s that make you a champion team



Mrs B likes to wind up but that is season over barring a miracle, were to far behind the top four now and wont be able to catch up as were crap away then if we do scrape into fourth position we'll go straight out because of our crap away form

that dumb we won 2 cc on the bounce, imo this season has been badly hampered by injuries, if we can get on a run and get some players back we can still make the top4 gonna be hard but we can do it.

Under Radford we have become a hard team to beat with plenty of effort from the players but we have no consistency and thats our problem.

Even last season when we had very few injuries we were inconsistent.

Is it the players? is it the coaching? i dont know but as a supporter its frustrating watching time after time the errors we make,dumb penalties,and some players going missing during the game.

In my opinion we do need to have a plan B to our play as most teams have sussed us out.

Move the ball wide when coming out of our 10 instead of wasting four or five tackles making minimal metres up the middle.

Change the last tackle option at times of a kick to the corner by reversing the play in the opposite direction when the opposition are looking and moving over to defend a kick to the corner.

Work on getting the forwards running onto the ball instead of taking it standing still.

Can we make the top four NO