FearTheVee

That's fair enough but Saints have faced a lot of highly motivated and eager opposition in recent times and not made those sorts of errors. In fact our success has been based on calmness in those situations which went missing both last week vs Catalans and this week vs Wire. As I said though - Wire were great and fair play to them.

Fair play to Wire - very good performance and a cracking result. Well done. Haven't watched it back but thought we were really poor with some basic uncharacteristic errors. Our game relies on us being pretty error free but the last couple of weeks we've falled way short in that regard and when we do it becomes very difficult for us given lack of pace across the backs and halves.

Easy isn’t it. Wigan should have just scored 20 and they would have been fine.

For a different incident

Someone’s still smarting from getting zilled at home

I also thought the commentary and general production was awful.

No Lewis Dodd for Saints is a blow added to Makinson/Percy

Not sure why any of that excuses his approach on live TV, particularly if he's so keen on setting an example to young Aboriginal kids as you say.

Rovers the better team but left too many points out there.

When I read his post I read him saying that the majority (which I take as more than half) would get walloped "by the four teams on show" - namely Roosters, Broncos, Souths and Manly. Four of the biggest clubs in the NRL. There is nothing remotely outlandish about that claim IMO. Most of the bottom half of SL get walloped by the top half of SL let alone some of the biggest clubs in the NRL.

Nobody, including the person you quoted, said every SL side would get walloped by every NRL side. That is your straw man.

We all know where we stand. The best SL teams would be competitive, below the top two or three it would be embarrassing. Pretending that our best side winning the WCC changes that is daft.

Think this will be much closer than everyone is suggesting, and should be a good game to watch.

The “winning try” was scored on 55 minutes. Still plenty of time for Penrith to win the game but they weren’t good enough to and appeared to be trialling a new strategy of getting caught on the last and/or doing nothing with the ball.

And you didn't get a cracking contest? Tough crowd.

How good is Yeo by the way? Thought he was tremendous.

Thought Morgan Knowles was truly huge in this game. Brilliant performance, more like his old self

Great event to be at, enjoyed it. No question that Wigan were hanging in and got the benefit of the calls (Wardle try wasn’t great but the ball steal one was a real shocker) but they were resilient and defended brilliantly well. But Penrith had the benefit of some marginal calls last year (Hopoate disallowed forward pass try being one) when the game was played with their ref under their rules. So suck it up - great NRL sides have come to the UK and taken the ref out of the game, Penrith couldn’t.

I turned off after about 60 seconds when they talked about Marshall and Miski being “two big bodies” in the Wigan back three - they’ve obviously never seen Wigan play. This stuff is precisely why I always want the NRL side to lose even when it’s Wigan opposing them. Cant wait for the game - will be there. I will stop short of actively supporting Wigan but I certainly won’t be supporting Penrith!

Derek Beaumont isn't around to sign them off.

Sounds like Leigh lost their opener . . . .

The games weren’t the greatest but I must have missed the period in time when torrential downpours in the first game of the season was a recipe for brilliant rugby. The biggest culprits for ruining a game that I watched were the players of Hull FC not the ref or the rules.

What reactionary nonsense.

You could see in Tony Smith’s face before ko he knew he had a right rabble on his hands. Zero confidence

Who is this clown with the dreadlocks? He’s absolutely terrible.