If the ball was stripped by Griffin then it is play on Bentley regathers and scores.
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If the ball was stripped by Griffin then it is play on Bentley regathers and scores.
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Unbelievable game that tonight easily my favourite of the season so far (for the viewing not who we beat) yes there were mistakes but my god it was end to end stuff. Win or loose that game you can't say you weren't entertained. We had some quality sat in the stands, it showed and we still managed to nick it at the end. Some of you lot need to give some credit rather than just saying everything's terrible. Both sides take a bow especially after some of the poor games that's been on TV recently
Great entertainment but for 50 minutes we were terrible. First and last 15 minute spells won it but the middle was appalling at times. The defence, on Lui on particular, was shocking.
Pleased for Bentley on the winning try but I take back what I said a few weeks ago about him being able to play hooker, his distribution was shocking.
Another win at least but it’s 2 weeks on the trot we’ve won without playing well.
NEVER WRITE OFF THE SAINTS
We played well for the first 10 mins and the last 10. The inbetween was our worst performance of the season. It was as if someone pressed a button after the Lui try and said you’d better up the tempo or else you will get beat. Walmsley and Bentley were great in the last 10.
We switched off after going 16-0 up and struggled to get back into it after that. I thought they controlled the ruck and ultimately, controlled us.
But, You’ll do well to see better half back performances this season than Lui and Hastings tonight.
We desperately need an organising 7 and if he’s available, we should be throwing money at Hastings.
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Better team lost tonight but I was enthralled.
I really enjoyed that. Lui & Hastings showed us up a bit but to sort ourselves out like we did I am chuffed to bits with
Great win. Salford played probably as well as they can do and to ride that without both our centres, Thompson, Roby, LMS was pleasing. That said we made them look good at times some real soft tries.
Walmsley was phenomenal, Reagan Grace, form winger of the comp.
An absolute shambles defensively but a great comeback in the end. The past few weeks have shown Fages can’t be first choice scrum half beyond this season, he’s actually doing well for someone who clearly isn’t a natural in that position. I hope he turns down the contract offer and we use the money to go for Hastings instead. I’ve said this for about the past month but what people see in Paulo I don’t know. That penalty for obstruction summed him up. Kyle Amor is another who is well out of his depth and a waste of space. If I was Douglas I’d be fuming sat watching him.
It’s a big win really as you’d fancy Wire to win tomorrow but that’s 3 questionable performances in a row and I do worry that it’s going to take a loss to break the cycle of poor performances, especially with the cup game being in a couple of weeks. Suppose it’s not easy to build consistency when there’s 4 or 5 missing each week though. Having the likes of Costello in the team really weakens us, hopefully at least 2 of LMS, Thompson and Percival are back in time for Wakefield.
Started off great and you wondered how many we’d score. Then a bit of sloppiness and bounce of the ball against us and we were on the back foot. What is concerning is that when we are not playing well our way of addressing that is to are try too hard to score off every set. It showed in the last 15 minutes that the only way to get yourself back into the game is to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in, the points came on the back of that.
All that said, some of the tackling and passing, especially from dummy half, was very poor. Salford do deserve a fair bit of credit though, a very decent performance
I hope all those posters who have been advocating the return of Swift with Makinson at center will now put a lid on it.
Really enjoyed that game and lucky to get the win, we had the first and last quarters Salford had the second and third quarters. Our defence was fully tested and floundered against some great attack play from Salford, dont think they made too many errors but started to run out of gas in the last 10 mins.
On a slightly negative note Lomax was poor for large parts of the game, for me Paulo and Peyroux got us momentum back aided and abetted by Captain Walmsley, I think we are starting to miss Thompson and LMS now, but a typical Saints fightback is alive and well and we will take the two points despite some of the controversy.
Great for the neutral. Salford were impressive and will feel robbed but we showed some character in the end and Justin will be feeling mightily relieved with his selection.
Plan to watch first and last 15 minutes later, lol.
As an aside I thought the crowd was terrible. We are so quiet there. Like we rock up expecting to win 60-0 every week
We tend to lose composure at times and concentration eg shambling back not realising it was a 40 20. But Salford played very well for 50 mins. We struggled when Walmesley and Lees were off for go forward. Paulo came on and was a calming influence and he is underestimated for me. We still need to calm down in the face of an adverse score which we did in the last 15.
Credit to salford who I thought were great.
Learned comment from The Don
We are missing Thommo and LMS when Walmsley is off the pitch.
Winning ugly when the chips are down is the sign of a championship team though...
Can't stop the spirits when they need you.
This life is more than just a read through.
Delighted for James Bentley, who along with other has had to work very hard, drop down a division with us etc to get back in the team.
BUT if Mikalauskas hadn't awarded a try 'on the field' there is no way the decision would have been overturned (in my opinion). Enjoyable game for the neutrals though, and well done in fighting back to win.
Watch it at full speed - the ball rolls as he hits the deck sure, but that doesn’t mean he lost control. His hand was underneath it the whole time, and as he rolls over he clearly has control - if he had lost control you simply can’t get a one handed grip like that in a single motion. Sky don’t show it at 1/60th of a second frame by frame, no one blinks an eyelid