I'm asking the same question, is he a new player?

We'll give the championship in 1999 to Bulls, and 2000 ti wigan then shall we if those are the rules?

Ryan Bailey's big hit tonight was impressive. What was more telling however was the reaction of the Leeds bench to it. They quickly removed him from the pitch because they didn't trust him. In comparison Saints throw James Graham onto the field and his contribution over the 15 minutes after that won Saints the game.

And for all the deserved chest banging glory for snotting Maurie, Mr Bailey didn't half crab his way through the remainder of his few mintues on the field in his attempts to avoid the big red machine.

All in all a great game, thoroughly enjoyable. All that was missing was Mr Bailey using a steel chair on Graham when he wasn't looking, knock the ref out and have a stand in ref award him a try. Sports entertainment at it's best tonight.

Just to remind a few on here especially G1
This is what I posted last Sunday on the Saints site

Rogues Gallery wrote: This is going to surprise a lot of you on here.

I think Saints will win.

If any of you still have Fridays game on sky+ or dvd or tape watch it again.

Leeds first try, came first from a fortunate 40:20 (the ball took a wicked bounce to the touchline, then Hall loses the ball in the tackle but fortunately it went back, then the pass from Sinfield is very debatable as if it was forward.

Their second try was down to the inexperience of young Ainscough (hopefuly he'll learn)

The third try was never a try, Kirke passes the ball forward and it crosses the 20 metre line, hits the ground before Donald picks it up before passing it on to Burrow who scored.

The referee can't go to the video ref for the forward pass but if the ball goes forward and hits the floor then it's a knock on, which the video ref can give.

Another of the Leeds tries came when Hock lost the ball, except he didn't it was stolen.

Early in the second half Wigan had two tries disallowed, the first one quite rightly for offside, but the second one the Leeds player made the wrong decision and took O'Loughlin who wasn't even moving.

Then Leeds got the benefit of the doubt try when the referee was stood no more that two metres from the players with a clear view. (I don't know if it was or wasn't a try but the ref was in the best position to make the decision)

Saints will not give Leeds the same amount of ball that Wigan did, and they will not get that many favourable decisions away from home.

Saints by 8 points.

Not a bad call at all was it.

Great call RG now what do the pies get for it?????
A stunning win at salford whereas we are still top of the league!!

Correct and such prestige does it hold that I'm sure I saw the ticket office staff at HQ using it to transport their brews!

He lost all control of the game for 10 minutes at the start of the second half.

The rest of the game he was ok at best - or thats how it seemed when there.

And back to the game...

Saints defence in the opening 10 mins of the game was outstanding, I spent that whole time expecting Leeds to get over and when they didn't manage it it must have been a boost to the lads that they could do it. I was very impressed with how we played last night but think we have probably made it even tougher for ourselves in 2 weeks time but we will have to wait and see.

So you missed him running 20 yards across the pitch just to have a run at Graham then?

The Saints by 8 points bit is an excellent guess.

The preceeding 10 or so lines are exactly the sort of fantasy garbage that hasn't been posted anywhere by any Leeds fan after the loss tonight. Keep embarrasing yourself, it's nice of you to cheer us all up after we got beat.

All the Saints fans seem to have missed that. Graham was hiding in the middle of the pitch. Why was he not lining up opposite the tap? If I wasnted to have a pop at the guy taking the hit up that's where I would have been - not near the centre spot.