Great Tries – No.3 – Les Quirk v Hull FC 1991 Stephen Orford 30th November 2017 Stephen Orford, Uncategorized There’s no doubt rugby league has changed. The ushering in of a fully professional era born 21 years ago has brought with it some dramatic changes. You can list them and as you do you might get angrier and ang...
Great Saints Tries – Anthony Sullivan v Wigan 2000 Stephen Orford 28th November 2017 Stephen Orford, Uncategorized As has often been the case in the Super League era Saints and Wigan were the dominant forces in 2000. Defending champions Saints had won their first Grand Final the previous season when a generous knock-on deci...
Great Saints Tries – Danny Arnold v Wigan 1996 Stephen Orford 20th November 2017 Stephen Orford, Uncategorized There's nothing like a Good Friday derby, especially at home. The sun always seems to shine on that early Spring day and never did it shine more so on Saints, both literally and metaphorically, than on April 5...
5 Talking Points From England 36 France 6 Stephen Orford 15th November 2017 5 Talking Points, Uncategorized Has Bennett Found The Right Spine? It is often said that a full-back, stand-off, scrum-half, hooker and loose forward are the real spine of a team. Between those players they do it all. They create,...
5 Talking Points From England 29 Lebanon 10 Stephen Orford 8th November 2017 5 Talking Points It’s Just Like Watching Saints Watching England toil away in this 29-10 victory over Lebanon would have felt uncomfortably familiar to us Saints fans. And not in a good way. In the way that your sev...
Recruitment 2018 – Is Peyroux Deal Enough? Stephen Orford 2nd November 2017 Stephen Orford I know there’s a World Cup on and we’ll get back to that in due course. But did you also know that there are only 92 days (at the time of writing) to the start of the 2018 Super League season? So close is it, ...
5 Talking Points From England 4 Australia 18 Stephen Orford 1st November 2017 5 Talking Points Same Old Story... Conventional wisdom before this one was that England would be very unlikely to beat the Australians twice during this World Cup, and that if that was going to be the case we would all rather ...
5 Talking Points From Saints 2017 Season Stephen Orford 25th October 2017 5 Talking Points, Uncategorized The Coaching Change Was Disruptive But Necessary After two middling seasons in which Saints stumbled to fourth placed finishes Keiron Cunningham went into this season against a backdrop of significant fan oppo...
RL World Cup 2017 – England Squad Named – Analysis Stephen Orford 12th October 2017 Stephen Orford England kick-off their World Cup campaign in just 15 days time when they take on the overwhelming favourites for the title Australia in Melbourne. The latest odds have Mal Meninga’s side at 1-4 to retain the tr...
5 Talking Points From Castleford Tigers 23 Saints 22 Stephen Orford 2nd October 2017 5 Talking Points A Spectacular Death If Saints season was going to eventually die it was always going to be in spectacular fashion. Every game Justin Holbrook’s side has played has felt like a must-win since some t...