5 Talking Points

Righting The Wrongs   Any time you lose as badly as Saints did in the Challenge Cup at Castleford last week it is not unreasonable for the fans to call for changes to the personnel. To do anything el...

A Long Way From Wembley....Still   For the second year in a row Saints' dreams of a Wembley appearance ended at the very first hurdle and in similarly humiliating circumstances. Last year Hull FC cam...

International Interference   It's not an excuse but it would be remiss not to start by addressing the issue of both Saints and Warrington having their squads weakened by international call-ups this w...

Missed Opportunities (1)   When the 19-man squad for this one was announced on Wednesday it contained the name of Jonah Cunningham. Jonah is the son of Saints great and erstwhile coaching calamity Ke...

Two Steps Forward.....   Along with a cartoon cat 90s R&B siren Paula Abdul sang about taking two steps forward and two steps back. She might well have been prophesising Saints' utterly anemic 16...

A Bonus Win   When midfield enforcer and all around pest David Batty was asked to give his reaction to his Leeds United side winning the old First Division title back in 1992 he simply said…”Well….it...

A New Era   It's been 24 years since Saints played a competitive game without Keiron Cunningham on the payroll. The new era was ushered in with the biggest of all regular season games, the traditiona...

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5 Talking Points From Saints 14 Salford Red Devils 22   Regression   Following two encouraging performances in the recent wins over Catalans Dragons and Warrington Saints apparently slipped back into...

Senior, Seven, Saviour   Keiron Cunningham told you that if only we'd had a senior halfback on the field we'd have been good enough to beat Wakefield. And boy, wasn't he right about that! Yet even he...