Quote LewCharnock="LewCharnock"Saints lost to a Salford team who were missing 10+ players and were only able to name a 18-man squad, with their 18th man jabbed up to complete the warm up. Which goes to show, playing Top Trumps doesn't really work when discussing rugby league. You could argue that Wakefield and Toulouse will be the toughest games possibly in the next two games due to their own situations and desperation?
What I think we can agree on is that Wigan look very good and a lot more patient in the last few games, still scoring a lot of points whilst improving their defence. On the other hand, Saints look pretty fatigued to me and blunt in attack. This could all change in around a month's time though when the trophy is handed out.'"
I agree. Things could look very different, we should have all our players back bar Dodd and Grace in the next few weeks and if the GF (if we get there) is played in wind and rain then we have the pack and big game experience to grind out a result. We have fallen foul of this a few times over the years on wet nights where Sinfield has kicked us to death, Leeds have completed their sets and forced errors.
In relation to our Salford defeat it was a shocker. I was only saying on here that we are never outworked and if we lose it is only by a couple of points or so but Salford hammered us. We had mitigation for the Wakefield narrow win as 4 players had Covid all week, didn't train and were only cleared to play the night before however we have been poor for a while now and do look fatigued I agree.
Its all about being fresh and in form in the last couple of weeks though.
