We dominated the territory and possession, but had absolutely no guile or creativity from the halves to unlock a rock hard defence. Exactly the same as in the semi last year, or the league game against Warrington last season, or any number of other games the last couple of years in fact. There's very little wrong with our backline no matter what the knee-jerkers think, but we desperately, desperately,
desperately need a genuine #7 from somewhere. Gaskell isn't the answer yet but he couldn't do much worse than Hohaia at the moment - I'm sure he's a great player and all, but clearly not at #6 and clearly not in the current Saints setup. We have to do more and play better to win big games than any other team in the league does right now. Very depressing and a terrible waste of an otherwise overall very good playing squad.