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Missing. He’s been great for Saints but he is done and has been for some time. We’re looking to protect Whitby and yet to me it’s Lomax that needs resting, Captain or not. Four consecutive titles in a salary capped sport is incredible and sport is cyclical - although we need more variety with that in Rugby League - but you’d would have to question Saints succession plan. Some people at the club, rightly at the time, dined out on their part in our success but you’d would have to now look at their part in Saints overseas retention and recruitment over the last few years. The new overseas recruits look good against Salford but against the better teams they get easily outperformed. The likes of Paasi and Hurrell should not be around any more but you could argue that about homegrown players like Lomax too. Sure we’ll be sniffing around the 6 because of the bizarre fixture list but something needs to change at Saints for us to be genuine contenders again.

Harry Robertson has spent the last few weeks dreaming of the NRL, think he might wake up from a few Tesi Niu nightmares this week.

I’ve watched too much I am afraid. He’s great against Salford to be fair.

Oh, here we go, never write off the….ah well not tonight.

Go for the one pointer so we don’t get nilled

Conceding just 10 at home should really be enough to win. Too many senior players not performing well and Saints attack was abysmal yet again. Briers was the answer, not sure what the question really was but Briers has effectively ruled himself out of replacing Wellens with the impotent attack. I would also question the bench choices. All that said well done Leigh, they’re capable of the exciting plays but I thought that they were much more composed. At 0-4, if Saints are composed, the game is still there,once Sainrs bombed chances Leigh just played out their sets really well. Please for the Leigh fans.

Even less than 10 metres out with a full set I honestly never fancied Saints to score there. Really not sure what the point of having Bennison and Cowan on the bench is?

We’re like a gnarled old boxer who can still take a dig or two but has lost the knock out punch.

Clear knock on from Lomax IMHO and a complete waste of a Captain’s challenge.

Sironen throws 4 or 5 of them a match and really should keep hold more often.

Feel sorry for Halton, he’s having a good game but a few big errors thankfully for him Saints make their own error. Saints need more composure, Sironen is always likely to do that unfortunately but are support players should be looking for it.

Saints senior players need to stand up here. Dagnall, Robertson and Whitby can’t be faulted for effort if not execution.

Scrap that get bloody Feldt of the field right now

Yeah agreed. Whitley is cumbersome, never a centre. I wonder if Wellens will bring Bennison on and move Dagnall to centre, that would be my answer…or switch Whitley with Robertson. Looks like Feldt and Sailor are having “one of those days”, Lam and O’Brien have the skills to take advantage of that and Hodgson (who I think is having a great game) and the Leigh backline have the pace to turn their pack pressure into points. Saints need a special play to win this in my opinion. Would settle for Paasi falling over the line mind.

Another low scoring half but much better quality than last week. Leigh good value for the lead. Trout is having a great game and I don’t think Roberson has faced anyone like Niu yet. Whitley is a liability.