IMHO saints have got the most balanced team in super league this year , I don't think they will win the league but wouldn't be surprised to see them lifting a trophy come the end of the season .

Looking forward to seeing the usual crew from Hull in The George pre and post match.



All welcome as usual, thanks to school half term I shall be on site earlier than normal for the "warm up"



Will dig out a Hull classic game for you early arrivals before I put an old saints match on.



Al

We've got an unbeaten record to defend at theirs haven't we? Looking forward to it but think the main difference for Saints this season is the coach. Undoubtedly one of the best around and now he's got 'his' side I think Saints will really fire this season.

Not sure about Brown been one of the best around, makes some odd selections at time, look at how much Hudds improved with the same side when he left. Make some good signings though.



Really hard game for us, but not impossible to come away with the points if we improve on a few things. Not expected to win, so a bit of pressure off us for this game.

Want to see us tighter in defense and improvement in discipline, don't think we can win this as even if we can match Saints, Walsh kicked 7 from 7 including 2 from the touchline IIRC, although I don't honestly expect it to be that close. Looking forward to it though.



Will be interesting to see how Wire respond this week at Leeds, might have a chance there....

Anyone know of any coaches with a couple of seats available?

try the mighty black and whites on facebook ask dan

For me, 100% the latter. I was very critical of our second half in particular.



One thing that worries me is your attack, but your defence was woeful on Friday.

Just had a check on their fb page and it looks like they're full. Cheers anyway

Expect that defence will have been addressed in training this week so hopefully not as leaky. If we are as potent in attack again and can convert trys we may have a chance, but still feel you will have too much for us.



Think Prekkie would have wanted a draw and I would most certainly take a point if one was on offer...

Three more making the trip down to Saints, as we do every year. After the unfortunate loss of Preckie, hoping for an especially big crowd to pay our respects.



Onto the game, I believe it's a tough one to call. I've backed Saints to win the competition at the start of the year and they undoubtedly are favourites for this game, but we can cause them problems. If we can get a roll-on and attack with the same pace and precision as we did in patches last week, we can score points. But we have to improve massively in defence, especially on the right-edge, Luke Walsh and his outside backs could have a field day if we're not careful.



I'm predicting Saints by 11-15.

Certainly need to improve our right hand defence, between crooks and lineham they missed 12 tackles, after watching the try's a few times, I'd say Lineham cost us 3 try's with his bad decisions and poor positioning. But I'm sure it is something that they have been working on this week. If this doesn't tighten up, it could be a long night.