SAINTS boss Kristian Woolf reflected on the World Club Challenge game when the Star’s Mike Critchley caught up with him in part one of this week's Q&A.

MC: That performance must have given all the club a real boost?

KW: It was a pretty good effort. We would have loved to have won the game; and made more of our opportunities – but we didn’t.

The most important thing we get out of a team every week is the effort.

St Helens Star:

MC: Are the feelings more disappointment through losing or being pleased with the overall effort?

KW: We have to make sure the message is right there. We are very disappointed that we did not win the game – we went into it thinking we would win it and if we played at our best that we were confident that we could get that result.

Although we played really well, we are nonetheless disappointed.

We created a lot of opportunities against a team that is lauded as one of the best defensive teams in our sport.

St Helens Star:

We created six or seven, maybe more, genuine scoring opportunities, and for different reasons did not quite make them happen.

There is an element of being proud of the effort because we know what a high quality, tough physical game it was – but at the same time there is disappointment and a desire to want to improve.

We walked away with our heads held high. If you look, the Roosters were able to get the job done with one or two plays when the game was really on the line.

St Helens Star:

If you look at the experience in that team – one that has played in finals footy every year in the last five, playing in three Grand Finals in that period and winning two.

Every player in that side plays for Australia, another nation or State of Origin.

The big game experience in that team is massive.

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We had some young blokes in there with our big game players who are going to take a lot out of that game in terms of learning. You get better at big games by playing in them. That is what we get the opportunity to do.

St Helens Star:

MC: The way the club presented itself, the staging and the atmosphere – can stand it in good stead when you are selling it to prospective new players in future?

KW: Definitely, I had not thought of it that way but the whole atmosphere created by the club and the fans added to it, with a great game of footy to back it up.

It was a great night.

The feedback we got back from the Roosters over the quality and physicality of the game and the atmosphere was extremely positive.

MC: There were two sides out there that really wanted to win that trophy - it mattered like a cup final?

KW: It gave both teams the opportunity to say they were the best in the world so that meant a lot to us and obviously it meant a lot to the Roosters. That is how they performed.

St Helens Star:

MC: Big Al was fired up – he led well?

KW: He did a really good job, but I was happy with our pack in general. All three of those starting middles did a fine job.

Al did lead from the front and was terrific with those carries as well and gave us a bit of aggression. We were playing against an aggressive pack. Him and the rest really stood up to that as well.