15 Aug: SL: Leeds Rhinos v St Helens KO 7.45pm (TV)

[Man of Kent 6,064]

The now customary not-quite-face-saving Leeds consolation efforts.

36-20 Saints after 75

[Futtocks 13,293]

If this is a try, that's a belter of a pass from Briscoe!

[chuffer 1,792]

Gunther's gonad

[wilsontown 470]

Thought Briscoe was in touch there but it hardly matters now.

[Denton Rovers RLFC 991]

Belting offload!

[Davo5 3,667]

1 minute ago, wilsontown said:

Thought Briscoe was in touch there but it hardly matters now.

He wasn’t 

[Denton Rovers RLFC 991]

A little chip through there surely?

[Man of Kent 6,064]

36-20 Saints FT. Too damn good

[GeordieSaint 5,957]

Great win tonight considering how many starters were out. I thought Leeds would win by about 4-8 points. We have some cracking young players in the set up like Welsby, Smith and Lees.

[Rupert Prince 1,011]

Just now, Man of Kent said:

36-20 Saints FT. Too damn good

Both sides intent on playing tick and pass. 

Leeds incapable of putting themselves in Saints face.

[Eddie 2,036]

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

[meast 1,373]

3 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

Try some humility lessons instead

[Chrispmartha 1,264]

3 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

As a Saints fan you just want to hope they don’t bottle it when it counts again!

[Man of Kent 6,064]

4 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

Won nowt though (unless you count the LLS). Enjoy it!

[Rupert Prince 1,011]

5 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

Not a stretch really for Saints against Leeds. 

[Moove 803]

10 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

Baffling. Do you not remember the misery of the Potter/Simmons/Cunningham periods just a short time ago? Or the number of big games we've bottled over the last decade? Maybe if we were on the back of five years of winning every trophy available

[John Rhino 873]

Did anyone else squirm whenever Ben Proe came on air?

I do not like his high pitched hysterical approach to commentating 

[JohnM 6,723]

19 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I’m a Saints fan and as weird as it sounds I’m getting bored of us being so good. 

Me too....but I'm a Wigan fan.

[Clogiron 1,820]

Shows just how much Leeds need to improve/ship out deadwood before they can hope to match it with the likes of Saints and I hope that's  put paid to the mistaken belief that Agars the man to do it, his past record suggests otherwise and I don't think he's suddenly become a coaching guru

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[Liverpool Rover 460]

It was a tight first half but after the Taia tries Leeds just fell away. It was more down to that than Saints improving. Welsby is a very good player and has a great future in the game.

[Rupert Prince 1,011]

Just now, JohnM said:

Me too....but I'm a Wigan fan.

Sky reporters are praising Holbrook for managing his squad.

Just about every team in the league all rotated their squads a lot more than Saints, but were forced to by injuries. Usually lots of them.  That's one reason  Saints are "So good".

[Bod 99]

Trouble is we can't pick everyone next week, going to be some disappointed good players.

[Moove 803]

5 minutes ago, Rupert Prince said:

Sky reporters are praising Holbrook for managing his squad.

Just about every team in the league all rotated their squads a lot more than Saints, but were forced to by injuries. Usually lots of them.  That's one reason  Saints are "So good".

I'd have given you that last season as aside from Walmsley missing most of the year we did incredibly well on the injury front, but that simply isn't the case this year. Roby, Walmsley, Coote, Thompson, Taia, Fages and Percival have all missed decent chunks of the season through injury. Holbrook has still chosen to rotate others bit by bit through the season on top of that, pretty much from the start, which has helped keep them fitter and reduced the risk of injury. This time last year we looked knackered and I do think Holbrook deserves praise for learning from that mistake.

Easier to rotate youngsters and fringe squad players into a winning team mind.

[Oliver Clothesoff 2,805]

Leeds are atrocious at defending and they have some players that simply baffle me. How that Briscoe and Myler have hoodwinked people into giving them money to play Rugby League as a full-time job is just bizarre. 

We took our foot off the gas at the end and Leeds made it more respectable. 

On to a proper game now. 

[Eddie 2,036]

28 minutes ago, Moove said:

Baffling. Do you not remember the misery of the Potter/Simmons/Cunningham periods just a short time ago? Or the number of big games we've bottled over the last decade? Maybe if we were on the back of five years of winning every trophy available

Yeah true, 100%, I have a short memory, though it would be good to have at least one other team challenging at the top.