5 Talking Points From Saints 16 Wigan 26 Stephen Orford 4th September 2017 5 Talking Points Did Holbrook Get It Wrong? It’s 20/20 hindsight of the most fatuous kind to suggest that Ben Barba should not have started Saints 26-16 home loss to Wigan on Friday night (September 1). The former ...
5 Talking Points From Leeds Rhinos 16 Saints 14 Stephen Orford 19th August 2017 5 Talking Points Didn't They Do Well? Er...No..... Nice to see you, to see you.....nice. What a lovely audience. So much better than last week. Unfortunately you're here to help me lament another entirely avoidable...
5 Talking Points From Saints 6 Hull FC 8 Stephen Orford 14th August 2017 5 Talking Points A Bad Day At The Office Justin Holbrook called this 8-6 home defeat by Hull FC ‘one of the worst games I have been involved in’ and it is hard to argue with that assessment. All but the most optimist...
5 Talking Points From Castleford 12 Saints 26 Stephen Orford 8th August 2017 5 Talking Points Bend....Don't Break Like the proverbial buses Saints waited a while for an away win and when it finally came others have started to follow. Four months separated Saints' first regular season away w...
5 Talking Points From Saints 46 Catalans Dragons 28 Stephen Orford 16th July 2017 5 Talking Points A Different Kind Of Win All season long this column has lamented the weakness in Saints attack. It's had all the balance of Madonna at the 2015 Brit Awards, with right-sided backs Ryan Morgan and T...
5 Talking Points From Saints 19 Hull FC 12 Stephen Orford 9th July 2017 5 Talking Points The Agony Of Hope It's the hope that kills you. Either that or horse meat, sleep or whatever else causes deadly disease according to this week's scientific blather. Either way you're going and it's...
5 Talking Points From Leeds Rhinos 24 Saints 22 Stephen Orford 2nd July 2017 5 Talking Points Small Margins Taken in isolation this two-point loss at Leeds is not a disaster. The problem is that it follows the collection of mess-ups and mishaps that have gone before it in 2017 which have co...
5 Talking Points From Saints 25 Salford Red Devils 24 Stephen Orford 24th June 2017 5 Talking Points Never Write Off The Saints The staggering, barely credible finish to this one was a thrilling reminder of why we all love this team. Few clubs in any sport can match Saints for their continued abil...
5 Talking Points From Saints 26 Widnes Vikings 10 Stephen Orford 10th June 2017 5 Talking Points A Selection Surprise Ever since the Bradford Bulls battered their way to success in the late 1990's and early 2000's it has been standard Super League procedure to have four forwards on the interch...
5 Talking Points From Saints 22 Wigan Warriors 19 Stephen Orford 27th May 2017 5 Talking Points The Holbrook Effect Saints new Head Coach Justin Holbrook took official charge of the side for the first time in this thrilling if somewhat scrappy win over the old enemy. He's only been in the cou...