Fri 29th Apr : SL : St Helens v Salford Red devils KO 20:00

[Old Frightful]

Discuss the SL game between St Helens and Salford Red Devils here.

[The Mighty Trin]

St Helens 28 - 12 Salford

[Chris22]

Our team selection will give us an indication of Woolf's thoughts long term for replacing Dodd.

I'd guess our team as:

Hopoate, Simm, Percival, Davies, Makinson, Lomax, Welsby, Walmsley, Roby, Lees, Mata'utai, Batchelor, Knowles 

Lussick, LMS, Paasi, Royle

[johnh1]

Salford’s team decimated by injuries. Saints team refreshed after a week off. Saints by 60+

[Cw25]

St Helens 44-10 Salford

[Saint Toppy]

While Saints will have 1 eye on the SF i'm sure they'll come out firing to get themselves in the right position for the big game the week after. With Salford missing several key players I can't see them troubling Saints too much.

Saints 52 - 8 Salford

[tonyXIII]

16 hours ago, Old Frightful said:

Discuss the SL game between St Helens and Salford Red Devils here.

If you don't mind, OF, I'd rather not.

I've started taking the painkillers already.

[WN83]

Saints with plenty to spare. Saints are defensively extremely ruthless but maybe not so much in attack and they don't usually rack up scores of 50/60 points.

 

Saints by 30

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Saints by ouch!!!

[johnh1]

2 hours ago, tonyXIII said:

If you don't mind, OF, I'd rather not.

I've started taking the painkillers already.

Go on, Tony. I will go with Saints by 68. Give us a more or less than that at least.

[tonyXIII]

1 hour ago, johnh1 said:

Go on, Tony. I will go with Saints by 68. Give us a more or less than that at least.

What the hell! Less - but not much. ☹

[StandOffHalf]

Saints by quite a bit.

34-10

[Futtocks]

Elton's in the bin. Salford need to get some points while he's unavailable.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Twenty minutes gone, and Salford up 6-0. 

 

[tonyXIII]

9 minutes ago, Pigeon Lofter said:

Twenty minutes gone, and Salford up 6-0. 

 

WTF?

Hold on! Saints in front now says BBC.

Edited April 29, 2022 by tonyXIII

[Irish Saint]

10 all after an hour. Lomax went off with a bicep injury in the first half.

[GeordieSaint]

4 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:

10 all after an hour. Lomax went off with a bicep injury in the first half.

Losing Lomax as well as Dodd would be pretty catastrophic…

[Irish Saint]

Saints lead 12-10 about 10 mins left. Percival has about 5 minutes remaining in sin bin.

[tonyXIII]

This is not what I expected.

Come on, Salford!

[Irish Saint]

Another Makinson penalty 14-10

[Fevrover]

Right warm up for the semi final.

[Irish Saint]

Final Saints 14-10.  Welsby saves try in last minute ends up sin binned. Salford fumble the last play pressing for the line.

Described as a dreadful ugly messy game.

[tonyXIII]

Well, we've come up short  but only just. Well done, Salford!

[Chris22]

The Morgan Knowles chase back and cover tackle to win that match on Chris Atkin is one of the best you will ever see! Incredible effort!

[Saint Toppy]

Terrible game one of the worst I’ve watched in years.

Couple  of key things to take from that,

Saints never got out of 1st gear all night, they definitely had the sf on their minds. But fair play to Salford they gave it their absolute all and probably deserved something from that game.

Hopoate was utterly useless, never seen such a lazy disinterested display from a Saints player. He was an embarrassment to the shirt quite frankly.

welsby and Roby were magnificent all night and Knowles 90m chase down and try saving tackle in the last minute on Atkin just epitomises him as a player, superb effort.

In nearly 40yrs of going to games I can’t think of a more inept refereeing performance than this game, he was embarrassingly poor. You know it’s bad when both sets of fans boo you so much. As well as the number of mistakes he made and how many things he missed the game was so stop start he utterly ruined it as a spectacle.

Brody Croft is such a whining gobby git. Every little thing that happened he’d sprint across the pitch to confront the ref. A ref with a pair of balls would have warned him or binned him early on. The worst one was after Saints 1st try Makinson was trying to tee up the ball for the kick and had to wait because Croft was stood in front of him mouthing off to the ref - weak officiating.