Just got back from the match, not read what everyone else has posted but here is my 2p worth.
First 20 - 30 minutes we where woeful. Dropped balls and penalties from Makinson, Manu etc just killed us.
I'd really consider not starting with Manu, he has great skills, but is far too eager to push the ball early. On a number of occasions he put us under pressure. I did not think Ashe contributed a lot, I've not seen him in recent weeks, but tonight he was pretty anonymous.
Did Perry come back on at all???
After what was a woeful start, there was a real manning up from the Saints lads, I could not pick a MOM as it was a contribution from all. We also got of help from Leeds who made some terrible errors. But we helped them earlier on so it's a fair trade.
Wellens was very good, ran through everyone, Walmsley is the future at prop and LMS as far as I could see, kept his penalty making to a minimum. Howarth is awfully slow at hooker, but he did have a hand in two of our tries so you have to give him credit for sucking in the defenders, but there were times where Leeds had 3 markers and just a dart from dummy half would have resulted in a penalty to Saints.
The 'high' shots on Bailey and Burrows where a joke, over the shoulder, but then we got one later on, on Walmsley.
A great result for us, but totally ruined my predictions for this week.
