Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:03 pm  

Saints discipline is atrocious. They are lucky it's only one in the bin.

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:04 pm  

Him wrote:

Well done to Bentham!
Utter stupidity from Saints. The offsides were ridiculous.

Indeed. The Saints chants of "You don't know what you're doing" post offside decision as the replay showed Percival in line with a Catalans PTB 5m out were an early season comedy moment. It joins James Child's entire performance from last night in the joke stakes.

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:07 pm  

Not a good game at all. Penalties, errors, bad video ref decisions, both teams very disjointed in attack. At least it's tight again.

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:08 pm  

number 6 wrote:

Saints seem to be getting away with a lot of niggling in the tackle

And more, that 4th min tackle by Greenwood was pretty high looking with the shoulder and Burns has made a couple of 3rd man in on the knee tackles. Are they taking the thugby route?

And then the constant cheating, let go on too long before the yellow came out. Seems the crowd don't like it, the obvious offsides on the TV even got a boo.

[Kosh]

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:08 pm  

What the heck has happened to Saints' discipline? Those offsides were ridiculous.

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:08 pm  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

Saints discipline is atrocious. They are lucky it's only one in the bin.

lucky to be 1 point down, everyone apart from the officials knows it should be 12/13-0 at half time!

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:08 pm  

Saints need to get a grip and get their heads back in this game. Those penalties were all fair in my view. Saints don't seem to have any focus. Time for wilkin to show some leadership and sort out his troops.

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:09 pm  

Staffs FC wrote:

Indeed. The Saints chants of "You don't know what you're doing" post offside decision as the replay showed Percival in line with a Catalans PTB 5m out were an early season comedy moment.

I have a bit of sympathy with the fans at the game, I think any crowd would be thinking they were hard done by even though it turns out the ref is right.

But the real comedy was from the Saints players. Firstly to continue pushing the line with offside (Percival and others were even offside from the penalty given for offside) and messing about at the play the ball after 4/5 penalties in a row. And secondly the look of incredulity on some of the Saints players faces. Surely you knew you were offside? Y'know, when you were in line with the play the ball?

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:09 pm  

Is it just Scousers? Wigan thugs, Saints offside cheats or Saints fans constantly booing because they aren't getting their own way!

Re: St Helens vs Catalans: best match of the first round. : Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:10 pm  

Catalans showing a lot of spirit. If they can adjust their kicking game to get behind Saints defence they can score again. But Saints had looked good in the first 20 minutes.

I expect Saints to beat a depleted Catalan team, but who knows? Thomas Bosc, Gregory Mounis and a couple of times John Zebolon Taia have done well.