As others have said, it wasn't just the loss of Sam that cost us, the spine of the team wasn't there. At the end of the day, we gave Saints a massive fright last night. We can talk about having the mental strength to close out big games etc. but ultimately, this wasn't a big game in the grand scheme of things. Of course beating the enemy is always nice, an perhaps we've had it a bit easy the past few years, but I'd have taken a defeat tonight if it meant we win on Saturday.



Finals and trophies are where it's at now. Yes, the league table has become a bit of a side show now and that's down to the RFL, but if we put a trophy in the cabinet (or two hopefully

) the season will be considered a success and this game will be forgotten about.



Could you imagine though, if the RFL said that whoever finishes top is champions? We would now have a 3-way fight to decide the winners and I really couldn't call it. One thing is for sure if that was case: Sam, Lockers and HH would certainly have played.



On a positive note, how good was Pat's drop goal?

Smith makes the tackle in the first try and Charnley decides to help, leaving Swift unmarked for the offload.



Smith misses the tackle in the second try but this is covered by Goulding and Hampshire. Unfortunately Charnley decides to help again, which as well as being unnecessary is badly timed and he leaves Swift unmarked again for the offload. I'd say Smith was more at fault in the second as the initial break was his fault, but had Charnley not left his wing again Lomax would likely have had no offload option.

You're not wrong pal, I think that even with or without him that we will still struggle to beat either the Wolves or the Rhinos come play off time



IMO we've batted well above our average this season and it's not so long ago that we believed that the SL leaders shield was done and dusted,now we find ourselves in a race for either of the top 3 positions,I believe that the Challenge cup is going to be our only realistic trophy this season I'm afraid and that it will be a shoot out between Warrington and the Rhinos at OT

Briscoe is quality, but will only thrive with a good centre, sadly Carmont and Glesson are long gone. There isn't a good centre at the club.

Charnley seems to be getting a good return despite having a rubbish centre...

Two rubbish centres at Saints!!