Well let's be fair about this. Saints game with a good game plan, they worked extremely hard, sprinted off the line to tackle us, and had a good kicking game. Credit to them, despite their errors, they played very well.
I think one of our biggest problems was the fact that we missed two very strong tacklers in Westwood and Harrison. They get through a huge amount of work, and we missed that. Then there were the errors, which destroyed our ability to attack Saints and achieve good field position ( and the Grix missed try amongst them). And of course that produces the double whammy of having to do a lot of defending.
I thought Myler was exceptional with his tackling, but he didn't have the space to create anything. Ditto Ratchford. Losing Carvell was a big blow and gave the forwards even more work. For once Hill looked tired and out of sorts. And of course losing Hodgson was also a blow.
All in all we played poorly, made a lot of errors and lost two key players to injury. They will have to do it the hard way now.