On Friday the stats read St Helens 1557 metres Hudds 1318
Carries St Helens 217 Huddersfield 178
Penalties conceded St Helens 4 Huddersfield 8
Offloads St Helens 8 Huddersfield 0
Usually you would get wiped out by Saints with figures like that.
However Tackles say St Helens 374 Huddersfield 376 which points to how good our game management and ball retention was and why we still had all that energy to scramble late in the game a massive plus for SW and what he has brought to the club.
Honourable mentions Hinchcliffe 46 tackles 6 marker tackles from the bench pleeeeaaasseee give him a new contract.
Clough 37 tackles, 7 marker tackles and 102 yards yet most fans say he’s useless
Cudjoe 30 tackles big number for a back.
The forwards 286 tackles and 50 marker tackles combined a very worthy effort when one player down.
McIntosh 111 metres
Turner 155 metres
McGillivary 143 metres
Rankin 102 metres
Which explains where the forwards got the energy for the tackling from.
A team effort of the highest order where every player has done his share for the team when we were also a man short for 55 minutes makes for interesting reading but perhaps shows what the Woolford effect really is....
Oh the Bumper effect too as we’d have run out of steam earlier in the season....
Perhaps time to dismiss an under performing Saints performance and replace it with a great one from Huddersfield !!!
