Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 5:53 am  

Although the attitude of the players was better I didn't feel at ease until we scored 34 points. At one point Silverwood looked as though he was trying to put Huddersfield back in the game.
What is your opinion of the way the "Senior" players played last night.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 6:14 am  

Depends what you class as "senior" players.

Mose was immense. Walsh did very well behind a weakened pack. Wello looked comfortable at the back. Lance had a good game

Wilkin did not inspire me, poor kicking and missed a fair few tackles again, forcing passes ,its like he's trying too hard.

Lms poor again, shown up by the younger forwards

Roby was roby, he was everywhere

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 6:53 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Depends what you class as "senior" players.

Mose was immense. Walsh did very well behind a weakened pack. Wello looked comfortable at the back. Lance had a good game

Wilkin did not inspire me, poor kicking and missed a fair few tackles again, forcing passes ,its like he's trying too hard.

Lms poor again, shown up by the younger forwards

Roby was roby, he was everywhere

Thought Lance was excellent last night snuffed Robinson out of the game put in a good number of tackles and his support play was superb.
Couple of instances with Wello and his reading of the game, thought "Mr Radar" is back marshalled his troops including his rollocking of the team when the giants scored the last 2 trys.
LMS was the less industrious of the pack, thought Flanagan was excellent in defence but less so in attack.

Roby, Masoe and Walsh were my top 3 performers.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 7:32 am  

Judder Man wrote:

Thought Lance was excellent last night snuffed Robinson out of the game put in a good number of tackles and his support play was superb.
Couple of instances with Wello and his reading of the game, thought "Mr Radar" is back marshalled his troops including his rollocking of the team when the giants scored the last 2 trys.
LMS was the less industrious of the pack, thought Flanagan was excellent in defence but less so in attack.

Roby, Masoe and Walsh were my top 3 performers.

I'd agree with that. It was still a bit lacklustre, and if we hadn't been up against a fairly poor Huddersfield, we wouldn't have had such an easy time of it, as only Masoe was making decent metres in the forwards. But Roby played his best game since 2012, and Walsh was all class.

A word for Dawson too - he tried hard, and made probably the best contribution in the threequarter line.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 7:49 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Wilkin did not inspire me, poor kicking and missed a fair few tackles again, forcing passes ,its like he's trying too hard

I thought Wilkin had a decent game. He needed to as well with lomax missing.

It's as if he was a little too enthusiastic in defence that led to the missed tackles.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:17 am  

I thought it was a very uninspiring performance and the only good thing about the night was that Huddersfield were worse. They were absolutely hopeless through the middle and although we scored some decent tries the opposition must be disappointed with the way some of them came about. Their attitude was shocking throughout too, and yet they still managed to score four tries which is poor.

I'm not getting too carried away with Masoe's performance, it's simply what I would expect from a good prop on a more regular basis. He did impress though as did Greenwood who looks comfortable in the 17 already and has the frame to put some real size on, he could potentially replace Soliola beyond this year at the rate he's going.

Aside from that not much to get carried away about. Roby was very good as ever but as mentioned it was more down to some shocking defensive efforts from Huddersfield in the middle channel. I expected much better from them and although they got some shocking calls from the ref there was no need for some of the attitude displayed by some of their senior players.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:47 am  

We looked more enthusiastic and were prepared to bend our back a bit.

However I felt that the result was more a reflection of Huddersfield being awful than Saints being sensational.

I was expecting a lot more from them. Their forwards were anonymous, and Danny Brough was not at the races all night.

On that showing Huddersfield looked at best a mid table team.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:48 am  

Albion wrote:

I thought Wilkin had a decent game. He needed to as well with lomax missing.

It's as if he was a little too enthusiastic in defence that led to the missed tackles.

I agree also that he had a good game
According to the stats Wilkin missed 1 tackle. Less than Flanagan( whilst they made the exact same total). Yet people are saying Flanagan had a good game defensively. Plus Wilkin made twice as many yards as him.
I'm not having a go at Flash in any way, just illustrating the point that Wilkin can't seem to do anything right in some peoples eyes.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:52 am  

The Chair Maker wrote:

We looked more enthusiastic and were prepared to bend our back a bit.

However I felt that the result was more a reflection of Huddersfield being awful than Saints being sensational.

I was expecting a lot more from them. Their forwards were anonymous, and Danny Brough was not at the races all night.

On that showing Huddersfield looked at best a mid table team.

Brough is a rocks or diamond player for me. Saints played the conditions very well and were worthy winners. I thought Dawson did well again, he seems to get some unfounded criticism from some of the Saints fams IMO.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:55 am  

SFW wrote:

I thought it was a very uninspiring performance and the only good thing about the night was that Huddersfield were worse. They were absolutely hopeless through the middle and although we scored some decent tries the opposition must be disappointed with the way some of them came about. Their attitude was shocking throughout too, and yet they still managed to score four tries which is poor.

I think you're missing the point of last night. We can only play what's in front of us. While we made some stupid errors again which led directly to at least two of their tries (we really do need to address this passive attitude - catch the ball yourself, don't wait for someone else, for example), we started very well and didn't stop for about 65 minutes. We dropped off in the last 10 minutes or so, something that needs addressing. But our degree of commitment to the cause was massively different from last week, which fundamentally was what last night was about. Winning was a bonus (although to be fair I think the team would not have been forgiven for losing had we lost!).