Paul Rowley described St Helens\u2019 win over Huddersfield Giants as \u2018awfully boring\u2019 after becoming the latest head coach to critique the captain\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n
Following on from Sam Burgess\u2019 comments last week, Rowley was the latest to bemoan the length of time reviews are taking, with a number of long stoppages as Saints held off the Giants\u2019 second half comeback to win 26-18.<\/p>\n
For Saints, returning to winning ways was the priority, and that is precisely what they did, even if they ultimately made it harder than it needed to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore we got here today, I think the main priority was making sure we just got a win and get back on the horse,\u201d Rowley said. \u201cI think after the first half, in a commanding lead, then we obviously wanted to kick on, but we sensed a little bit of a worrying trend, getting a little bit sloppy towards the back end of the first half. We addressed it in the second half, but of course it continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs they\u2019ve shown before, most recently against Warrington, that when they\u2019re chasing the game and they\u2019re throwing passes out and offloads and it\u2019s getting scrappy, then they\u2019re pretty good when the game\u2019s chaotic. So we needed to reduce the chaos by being a little bit more disciplined in how we went about our business. So we contributed to that chaos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were other contributing factors, video ref decisions, challenges, etc., which made the game awfully boring. It\u2019s like a 10 to 10 finish. It\u2019s not good on a school night, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
St Helens guilty of arrogance<\/p>\n
Despite winning, Rowley was not impressed with how his side took their foot off the gas. They were leading 24-0 at half-time but ended up only winning by eight points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not won well. That sort of statement is probably something we were guilty of at half-time, arrogance.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we have to win well? We\u2019re playing a Super League team here who on paper spend the same amount of money as us and probably the same resource as us. It\u2019s an arrogant statement in itself really and something we were probably guilty of. We addressed that and spoke about that and need to be a little bit more respectful of our opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Rowley described St Helens\u2019 win over Huddersfield Giants as \u2018awfully boring\u2019 after becoming the latest head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-671459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}