Fri 20th Jun: SL: St Helens v Leeds Rhinos KO 20:00 (Sky)

[League Express]

Fri 20th Jun: SL: St Helens v Leeds Rhinos KO 20:00 (Sky)

Discuss the game here.

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[Chrispmartha]

with Saints Injuries and our form we should be winning this, however it's Saints away and our record their in recent times is utterly dismal so who knows.

[Luke HKR]

Leeds by 8, Who Saints have missing should swing it.

[Loiner]

Close game even with saints injuries, Saints by 6

[FearTheVee]

Whilst injuries aren't helpful (think latest count is Welsby, Murphy, Percival, Whitby, Bell, Bachelor, possibly Sironen and Hurrell working his way back from long-term injury at Bradford) our form is poor against any team with a pulse anyway.

We have a team out that should be able to complete, but I'm not sure it will. Think Leeds by 14+

I'd go:

Sailor

Feldt, Robertson, Cross, Dagnall

Lomax, Mbye

Walmsley, Clark, Lees

Sironen, Whitley

Knowles

Subs: Wingfield, Delaney, Stephens, Burns

If no Sironen, Wingfield into the XIII and Paasi onto the bench.

 

[Tommygilf]

Slight bit more expectation than hope for Leeds with this. The first of a big set of 4 matches. Take 6 or 8 points from them and it cements us in the top 2. The opportunity is certainly there.

[Thunder Road]

Come on Saints  get sweat on them shirts.

 

Red V by 8

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Leeds by 8.

[Szymala]

Leeds have a shocking recent record against Saints.

[headtackle]

Whitby is going to be a big miss

Think back to how bade we were before he came on the scene

Think we may struggle tonight

[tiffers]

Everything pointing towards a Leeds win.

[V02]

1 hour ago, headtackle said:

Whitby is going to be a big miss

Think back to how bade we were before he came on the scene

Think we may struggle tonight

To be fair Mbye has a decent long kicking game. Not as good as Whitby, but probably one of the bigger gaps Saints had beforehand

[Andrewj]

Apparently it's very warm down on the pitch !!

[Hopie]

Constant hands in the ruck/on the attackers heads so far

[Waynebennettswinger]

14 minutes ago, Hopie said:

Constant hands in the ruck/on the attackers heads so far

Took a captains challenge for 1 to finally be spotted though!

[Chrispmartha]

Dull game, weve been really poor so far, silly errors. But Saints look like the worst ive seen them attack wise. That could bite me on the ###### like

[Hopie]

3 minutes ago, Waynebennettswinger said:

Took a captains challenge for 1 to finally be spotted though

Messy PTBs are what you get when ref "let's the game flow", he is staying out of it.

[Waynebennettswinger]

1 minute ago, Chrispmartha said:

Dull game, weve been really poor so far, silly errors. But Saints look like the worst ive seen them attack wise. That could bite me on the ###### like

Nah, we’re both terrible. Watching this makes me realise just how far Hull KR and Wigan are ahead - aware and very pleased as I type this that Wigan are losing. 

[Hopie]

Poor refereeing there, no challenge but he goes to the screen for an in goal line decision.

[Waynebennettswinger]

Justice then from appalling refereeing from Jack Smith.

[Just Browny]

There's no way Clark and Delaney should be joining that tackle so late. 

But with Liam Moore on video ref, Leeds have got to be more savvy. We know he has no interest in flops.

Edited June 20 by Just Browny

[Coggo]

Hard cheese, Ryan Grandad 

[Chrispmartha]

Thats a flop so a defender cN just join in when a olayer is stopped now?

[Barry Badrinath]

Didn't think it was a flop, he was still moving, had he slid over the line they wouldn't have told him to come back and play the ball

[Barry Badrinath]

Id also like to add my frustration at the amount hands in and interference in the ruck/ptb