SAINTS had big plans to mark their departure from their Knowsley Road home of 120 years - but alas on the field they just fell short in both major competitions.
The year started badly - with Sean Long returning with his Hull FC side to prove a point that the club had let him go too early.
The match, played in such thick fog that the play was barely visible, sent the fans home in a disappointed mood and that set the tone.
The game probably should not have been played - and was so thick that few immediately saw Ade Gardner recoil in agony with a shoulder injury in the far scoreboard corner.
The game saw Sia Soliola make his senior Saints debut in the centres, but he was struggling for fitness.
He played another game a month later and then was ruled out for virtually the remainder of the regular league campaign.
When he did come back, as a forward, he certainly made up for lost time with his crash tackles becoming something a speciality.
After the opening day defeat Saints' spring time was good in parts, but patchy.
Paul Wellens grabbed four tries in the 38-6 win at a Bradford Bulls side that were clearly on the wane.
A routine win at Catalans and a turgid encounter at home to Wakefield kept Saints up there, but their theme of losing at Craven Park continued.
Among the early highlights was seeing the Warrington hordes pack into the Eddington end, swelling the gate to 17,500, with a view to seeing a first and possibly last summer era win at Knowsley Road - only for Saints to triumph 28-18.
A win at Huddersfield teed them up nicely for the last ever Good Friday clash at Knowsley Road.
The home fans among the sell-out crowd were left disappointed, with Wigan storming to a 14-0 lead at half time.
The first of their tries, form Darrell Goulding, came after Sean O'Loughlin picked up the ball from a Saints-fed scrum and raced clear.
Although Saints hit back in the second half with tries from Ade Gardner and Tony Puletua, they were left with too much to do, despite throwing everything at the Wigan line.
Saints waltzed through the summer- with youngsters like Jamie Foster, Shaun Magennis, Jonny Lomax and Lee Gaskell being given a taste of the action.
For two weeks running Foster showed his goalkicking prowess by nailing eight goals.
The year's Magic was held at Murrayfield and the 54-0 win over Hull KR was something of a non-event.
Saints marched through the Challenge Cup rounds, beating Toulouse, Harlequins and Barrow to reach their tenth consecutive semi-final without really breaking sweat.
Alas they lost to Leeds 32-28 at Huddersfield.
There was still drama in the league, and driven on by Keiron Cunningham, James Graham and Paul Wellens Saints finished the year in second.
It took a last gasp Cunningham try against Castleford to secure a home tie.
Once there the pure emotion of the last days of Knowsley Road drove them past Warrington and Huddersfield.
Saints were struggking in the halves, with Kyle Eastmond injured, so they recalled Matty Smith from his loan spell at Salford.
Alas, Old Trafford was a bridge too far for a Saints team that had probably overachieved given the personnel they had lost since 2006.
They trailed 16-0 before Andrew Dixon slid over, but it was a lead they were never going to lose.
Francis Meli cut it to 22-10, but they were well beaten.
It already been decided that Mick Potter would be moving on, but that was probably the third in rank of significant departures that year.
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