Rogues Gallery wrote:
Last year Saints had a U19's squad heavily loaded with 3rd year players, so most have them aren't eligible for this year. Just to put tonights result into context, last week Wigan beat Wakefield comfortably with a team that only had two 3rd year players in it and seven first years (U17's)
I'm guessing Saints had a lot of 1st year players in their team tonight.
36 - 18 to Wigan after a horror first 20 minutes saw Wigan 22 - 0 up.
It was easily Wakefield's worst performance of the season so I'm not sure just how much context you can derive.
Wakefield starting pack at Wigan also had 3 first years and 2 second years so not stacked with maturity.