I think that we played okay and that the scoreline flattered Saints a little but you have to credit their defence, which was very good.

I thought we blobbed the first half and Alibert had a very big 10m first half for both sides that Saints made better use of. Second half his 10m was skinnier and we upped our game a bit but couldn't make use of our supremacy by turning it into points.

Saints were more clinical, they got a chance and converted it. We didn't.

One thing I did notice about Halibut (sp.) was his lack of clear signals to show what the decisions were. Or maybe he wasn't sure.
Sure Saints got away with a fair bit but so did we. Where we fail is we don't push to the limits that such as Saints do.
Shabby performance for a full time ref yet probably no worse than most.

Also, Tony Puletua, what a strong guy he is.

I apologoise RIGSBY; it was clearly a canter for Saints. That's why the tries at the death had the Saints players celebrating like their bums hadn't dropped out in the Grand Final.... again.

And another thing, I think we copped a few grapple and head tackles today. Lawrence was all over the shop and the BBC picture is indicative of what I mean...

The try that settled it, Saints were over the moon. They knew they had a major battle today, as did a couple of Saints lads I spoke to on the walk out.

The score did flatter saints. It was a pretty poor game overall imo and it was only the last 10 mins that we really came good

Thought the Saints defence was immense and at 12-6 it almost gave way, used their experience to run the clock down and when they scored with 5 mins to go it was game over. Fartown were just waiting for the whistle and Saints made the scoreline look more one sided than the game was.

Having said that I thought we gave them a good game and a little bit of luck and we may have knicked it.

We'll take your coaches opinion over yours, which is clearly tripe! Clueless is a word that springs to mind.

Edited original post now - it was meant to say it did flatter saints

In which case I take it back myself, you know your stuff!

Danril,

In reply to your post about Lawrence being all over the place - that was caused when he and another Giants player were tackling Sean Long to stop him scoring in the first half. The 2 Giants players clashed heads with Lawrence coming off worse. To be honest, I think both teams were guilty of a couple of grapple tackles today and this is becoming a trend as the Sky matches have had examples of this too.

I hope Lawrence is OK as he looked in a bad way.

As for the rest of the match, well played the Giants. I came across today thinking we would lose but only a teriffic defensive performance stopped you lot from winning.

Good luck for the rest of the season