Saints Facts and Stats : Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:22 pm  

Saints scored the 21 points they needed on Friday to bring up 12,000 in Super League. They have now scored 12,009 points.

Saints victory v Celtic was their 150th home Super League win.

Saints nilled Celtic on Friday. The last time they nilled a team at home in Super League was Halifax Blue Sox 64-0 on 23rd August 2002!

Saints nilled Celtic for the second time this season. In 'League' Matches, the last time this happened was over 55 years ago, in 1953-54 and it happened twice in the same season:

14/11/53 Swinton (H) W 2-0
09/01/54 Swinton (A) W 8-0
(For the record, Saints also beat Swinton (H) on 23/09/53 by 38-9 in a Lancs Cup Rd 2 match that year)

15/08/53 Liverpool City (A) W 46-0
20/03/54 Liverpool City (H) W 18-0

Whilst we're on the subject, it is over 73 years since it happened to Saints, way back in 1935-36:

26/12/35 Wigan (H) L 0-14
10/04/36 Wigan (A) L 0-14


However if you include Cup ties. In 1979-80, Saints nilled Workington twice in the same season and in 1977-78 Saints nilled Dewsbury twice:

23/12/79 Workington (H) W 51-0
10/02/80 Workington (A) W 16-0 - CC1
09/04/80 Workington (A) L 5-20

18/09/77 Dewsbury (A) W 18-0
11/10/77 Dewsbury (H) W 51-0 - FT1
08/01/78 Dewsbury (H) W 23-7

: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:39 pm  

LS - I seem to remember one period in (i think) 2002 when we went two or three and a bit games without conceeding a point. Was this is record?

I think the Halifax game you have mentioned above was one of them.

: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:41 pm  

When was 19-0 against Wigan?

: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:47 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

When was 19-0 against Wigan?

2002 i think. Easter Monday after we got hammered by London on the previous Thursday.

: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:10 pm  

Saint Michael wrote:

LS - I seem to remember one period in (i think) 2002 when we went two or three and a bit games without conceeding a point. Was this is record?

I think the Halifax game you have mentioned above was one of them.

It certainly hasn't happened in SL:

OPPOSITION NILLED

SCORE OPPONENTS VENUE DATE
62-0 Workington Town Away 31-Mar-96
50-0 Sheffield Eagles Home 25-Sep-98
11-0 Huddersfield Giants Away 07-May-99
48-0 Salford Reds Home 06-Jun-99
24-0 Wakefield Trinity Home 06-Apr-01
19-0 Wigan Warriors Home 01-Apr-02
64-0 Halifax Blue Sox Home 23-Aug-02
38-0 Halifax Away 02-May-03
35-0 Bradford Bulls Away 27-Jun-03
46-0 Hull F.C. Away 24-Mar-06
40-0 Hull K.R. Away 17-Jun-07
54-0 Harlequins RL Away 05-Jul-08
4-0 Celtic Crusaders Away 07-Mar-09
30-0 Celtic Crusaders Home 26-Jun-09

: Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:01 pm  

Why do this, you know it will only lead to some snotty nosed wigan kid coming on and commenting on that game ... doesn't matter if it was pre SL
Please someone lock this ....NOW

: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:00 am  

Another first.
Fridays game was the first time I've been down the Eddy end
Friday's game was the last time I will be down the Eddy end with all those swarms of teens pissing about through the whole game.

: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:09 am  

Remember - it's not 'nilled': it's Zilled.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:35 pm  

Dont forget we zilled the pies in the charity shield in Gateshead, oh yes we zilled them to lift a trophy. Oh yeahhh baby we sure did.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:18 pm  

diehardofowld wrote:

Why do this, you know it will only lead to some snotty nosed wigan kid coming on and commenting on that game ... doesn't matter if it was pre SL
Please someone lock this ....NOW

get a grip