Geoff Pimblett – 1944-2018 Stephen Orford 20th February 2018 Stephen Orford Saints are mourning the loss of a club great with the news that Geoff Pimblett died on Monday (February 19) at the age of 73. Pimblett enjoyed an eight-year spell with Saints after joining the club...
Great Saints Tries – No.5 – Ade Gardner v Brisbane 2007 Stephen Orford 13th December 2017 Stephen Orford On February 8 2007 a Saints side which had won everything bar the varsity boat race in 2006, even carrying off the Team Of The Year award at the notoriously anti-league BBC’s Sports Review Of The Year, lost 14-...
Great Saints Games – Saints v Bradford – 1996 Stephen Orford 7th December 2017 Stephen Orford I was born in October 1975. Take a look at the list of honours won by St.Helens RLFC and you will note that throughout my childhood years it was slim pickings in terms of winning trophies. The cabinet was, if ...
Great Saints Tries – No.4 – Shane Cooper v Leeds 1992 Stephen Orford 1st December 2017 Stephen Orford I don’t really want to talk about the Challenge Cup in the period between 1988 and 1995. It was a largely miserable time for Saints fans as Wigan managed to win the famous old trophy no fewer than eight times i...
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...
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, ...
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...
We All Live In A Barba Wonderland Stephen Orford 25th May 2017 Stephen Orford Even before he’s taken charge of his first game as Saints Head Coach Justin Holbrook has made a huge statement of intent with the barely believable capture of Ben Barba on a two-and-a-half-year deal. ...