COMING away from Langtree Park on Thursday night I was finding it hard to take in what I had just seen.

It wasn’t that we had lost to Warrington but the manner of the defeat.

Here was a Saints team who had been top of the pile for most of the season needing just a point or a win to secure the League Leaders’ Shield.

You would have thought the lads would have been really up for it.

Well I’m afraid there was only one team up for it — and it wasn’t St Helens.

We got off to a great start with a try and goal in the first 10 minutes, but from then on it gradually went pear-shaped. If the first half was bad, the second half was even worse.

There was a total lack of leadership, direction and creativity. We went down with a whimper.

Eamonn McManus and Nathan Brown are always asking for the fans to get behind the team.

Well there where 12,000 fans there, of whom 10,000 were Saints supporters waiting for something to happen, but it never did.

If Saints really want this title they had better pull their finger out and show some character, fight and guile at Huddersfield.

Or else it could be another trophyless season.

To top it all off was the behaviour of Sky Television showing the Shield being placed back in the case and walking back down the corridor.

That was totally out of order and made the club look a laughing stock.

Dave Milner,

Sutton Leach,

Long-time Saints season ticket holder