Woolf proud of Saints performance

St Helens Head Coach Kristian Woolf has praised his side’s performance in the World Club Challenge on Saturday.

Saints were in the game for large parts, but were beaten 20-12 by Sydney Roosters at the Totally Wicked Stadium.

He said: “I thought our blokes tried really hard, and for large periods of that game, I thought we were well on top physically.

“The unfortunate thing was, we created plenty of opportunities and we did a really good job for the most part defensively, but when we had those opportunities, we didn’t quite take them tonight.

“You look at that period around half time, we had a disallowed try just before, a real 50/50 call. We had another just after half time, another 50/50 call.

“We also had a few opportunities where we threw it over the sideline, or dropped it with the line wide open. We just had to take one of them to put pressure on the opposition. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to do that.”