Serge A. Storms wrote:had had a half back that had played anything like the result would have been the same as the SF - sadly the x-factor on that day Kevin Brown wasn't playing. Robinson was unable to control the plays when it really mattered - Saints were pretty poor on the night and were there for the taking - I lost count of the number of errors Robinson made in the middle 20 minutes of the 2nd half when the Giants had Saints on the rack.

SaintsFan wrote:I'm very aware of how rubbish Saints have been for a lot of this season, and indeed have readily admitted it. However, on this occasion you are talking total bollox. We defended last night like our lives depended on it. Had we not given our own silly penalties away - something that needs to be addressed - we would have nilled Hudds. The reason for that was our defence, which we used to pin Hudds down, just as they used it against us in the CC semi. Likewise, Hudds defended very well themselves. We were helped with one try in that a forward pass went undetected, but other than that Hudds never stopped their own pressure all night. It was down to who had the best defence and last night, it happened to be us. It would not have mattered who Hudds played, we were up for it last night and we had clearly worked hard on rediscovering the one thing we really can do well when we want to and that is defend.