Re: How times have changed : Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:50 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Poor form? Its all reletive, pal.

5 weeks poor form vs a season of dross.

If an outsider looked at our form since the Magic Weekend, they might fancy you to do the job. Look at our form below and keep in mind you're in 7th place:

Wakefield (a) - 9th - Losing with 10 mins left, two late tries and a penalty seal the win
Widnes (a) - 11th - Losing with 15 mins left, Level with 10 mins left, a late try and a drop goal win it
Warrington (a) - 3rd - Lost by 10
Castleford (h) - 12th - Lost by 14
Bradford (h) - 10th - Losing with 5 mins left, level until the last second when we score a winning try
Widnes (h) - 11th - Battered them by 44 points

Re: How times have changed : Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:09 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

If an outsider looked at our form since the Magic Weekend, they might fancy you to do the job. Look at our form below and keep in mind you're in 7th place:

Wakefield (a) - 9th - Losing with 10 mins left, two late tries and a penalty seal the win
Widnes (a) - 11th - Losing with 15 mins left, Level with 10 mins left, a late try and a drop goal win it
Warrington (a) - 3rd - Lost by 10
Castleford (h) - 12th - Lost by 14
Bradford (h) - 10th - Losing with 5 mins left, level until the last second when we score a winning try
Widnes (h) - 11th - Battered them by 44 points

In most of our games we've been losing with 10 mins left, and still losing 10 mins later.

That said, I'm not going to write us off completely. But even if you lot have an off day, we'll have to improve significantly on recent performances to get within touching distance.

Re: How times have changed : Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:16 pm  

Sadly as it's a Monday night game I will not be there.




Still I've backed us to win on the predictions thread. No logic behind it, just could not put Wigan to win.

Re: How times have changed : Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:51 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

If an outsider looked at our form since the Magic Weekend, they might fancy you to do the job.

Then they'd be bonkers.

Re: How times have changed : Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:44 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

The usual with Wigan. As with the first team, against who Francis Cummins complained to the RFL, Wigan's players spent the game trying to snap knee joints with drives at standing players' knees. The 'technique' is called 'snapping the pole' at Wigan.

Bradford got so sick of the referee doing nothing about it that they gave one back at the end, which unleashed the frustration that had been building. Unsurprisingly it was Wigan with the superior aggression and they ended up with half their side up before the disciplinary commitee.

This tackling technique HAS to be outlawed soon. It injures far more players than shoulder charges ever did. It is really disappointing that Wigan are doing it at Under 19 level, serious risk of careers being over before they've really started.

And yet the Ref and the RFL subsequently saw nothing wrong. I watched the game and didn't see anything which is also called 'snapping the pole' at St Helens and other teams.

The tackling technique is outlawed and Wigan don't do it.

As for the Bradford got sick, are you basing this on hearsay from the forums or did you go to the game an witness it yourself?

Re: How times have changed : Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:08 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Wigan are a very average side wrapped in a package of togetherness and aggression. If Saints get battered by that Wigan side then Brown has to go.

Saints just need to put some effort in for once. The girls like Laffranchi and LMS need to bleed for once.

Wellens does that week in, week out but still gets slated.

I do agree though, our forwards need to put in a huge performance tomorrow.

Re: How times have changed : Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:14 pm  

Dux wrote:

In most of our games we've been losing with 10 mins left, and still losing 10 mins later.

Re: How times have changed : Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:46 pm  

Tez the Saint wrote:

Wellens does that week in, week out but still gets slated.

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Effort is part of it but has never been Wello's problem. We are crap at the moment but it is a combination of factors, some players cant be bothered others are past it and others have never had anything to be passed. A really bad combination of things to have in a squad