Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:45 pm  

Best side won tonight. Scoreline is probably about right too. You can't just throw the ball around without putting the graft in. Decent defensive effort but just so hard to watch. Hopefully dry weather will help us a bit.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:46 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Not really. Saints have simply been much more clinical …..

Yep they capitalised on it.

St Helens Tame The Rhinos To Win At Headingley : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:47 pm  

St Helens Tame The Rhinos To Win At Headingley Despite home advantage, the Leeds Rhinos were given a four-point start on the handicap coupon as they took on the reigning Champions St Helens at Headingley Stadium in the sole Friday evening game in Super League XXIX. Saints already had second place and knew that a win in excess of twenty-two points would see them above arch-rivals Wigan Warriors into top spot, the Rhinos knew that a win would lift them to second spot in the table overnight. Saints were without the suspended Mark Percival after last week's sending off and lost Tommy Makinson in the warm-up while Leeds had ex-Saint James Bentley back in their side after his suspension. This was the first of two encounters between the two sides in two weeks. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

St Helens Tame The Rhinos To Win At Headingley Despite home advantage, the Leeds Rhinos were given a four-point start on the handicap coupon as they took on the reigning Champions St Helens at Headingley Stadium in the sole Friday evening game in Super League XXIX. Saints already had second place and knew that a win in excess of twenty-two points would see them above arch-rivals Wigan Warriors into top spot, the Rhinos knew that a win would lift them to second spot in the table overnight. Saints were without the suspended Mark Percival after last week's sending off and lost Tommy Makinson in the warm-up while Leeds had ex-Saint James Bentley back in their side after his suspension. This was the first of two encounters between the two sides in two weeks. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:47 pm  

would love to know how that squad is within the cap...

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:49 pm  

Hope no one blames the ref. We're still 12 months away from competing but miles better than last year.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:52 pm  

Getting Lisone and Fus back will make a huge difference, Fus in particular will give us that ability to finish those half chances that Roberts will never be able to.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:53 pm  

Yeah we’re better than last year but still a way off the top sides like saints and Wigan. We lack power in the pack off the bench and have only one good winger available at the moment.

Can’t see us getting to the GF or winning anything this year tbh. We just look slightly short and we’re too loose with the ball

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:58 pm  

We weren't miles off there, a couple of key decisions go the other way and the scoreline could have been reversed.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:06 pm  

Yeah I was just thinking we aren’t miles away. We looked comfortably the better side for fire half an hour, then we seemed to resort to one out carries and the dreaded errors kicked in.

Soon as we got loose we got punished, credit to Saints they deserved the win,

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:13 pm  

Play the second half like we did the first and that could be a very different score. Mistakes against good teams will get punished, we must stop making them.