1. Saints beat Huddersfield with plenty to spare with three of the headline grabbers being players who were rested for the week.

Lachlan Coote scoring one and having a hand in most of the others, Tommy Makinson grabbed a hat-trick and Jonny Lomax nipped in for a brace.

You can throw in some fantastic ball carrying from Alex Walmsley, too - exactly the response Justin Holbrook wanted from the players that sat out the defeat at London.

Hopefully the trio that sat out this week’s game will come back equally invigorated.

With a healthy cushion restored at the top, with Warrington losing, that rotation policy may be seen a few more times before the end of the year.

2. Not a player who had a rest, but Morgan Knowles was everywhere again on Friday. His tenth minute shot on Oliver Russell underlined his defensive prowess, but he did all of those unsung little bits too. With Wayne Bennett in England, hopefully the GB coach can catch sight of the Welsh international in action.

3. London’s win in Catalans had a two-fold benefit. One, it probably lifted a few of the Saints blushes from the week before. And secondly, it drags Leeds, Hull KR, and a host of other teams into the relegation dogfight, with even Wigan not clear.

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4. To have Leeds level bottom brings mixed feelings. Sure, Saints owe them for those Grand Final defeats and it would be quite a turn up to see another one of the former ‘big four’ relegated.

But I hate to say it, the Super League fixture card would be poorer without Leeds’ name.

The pain from the former - in most Saints fans eyes - will probably over-ride the latter, for a year at least.

5. With Saints so far ahead, and the relegation battle being tight - it would be a travesty if the focus for last 11 rounds concentrated on the bottom, rather than the elite. (As happened in 2006 when Wigan were under threat.)

6. And related to that, I will take this opportunity to once again have my annual moan about the Super League system of not awarding the title to the team finishing top of the pile.

That would ensure that the battle between Saints and Warrington would capture the attention it deserves, just like the Saints v Wigan battle of 1996 when every game, tackle, try and touchline conversion mattered.

Although a team finishing 10-18 points off the pace doesn’t really deserve to be challenging for the title of champions, to keep it interesting for everyone else, replace the Grand Final series with the old top eight Premiership.

If you think about it, that comp was getting bigger naturally before the switch in the late 90s - and that should have the way to go instead trashing the old league table concept.

We could have had the best of both worlds, instead of the one we have now whereby the team finishing top is insulted with the hub cap and then dared to fall at the last fence after leading all year.