KC Reaction : Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:56 pm  

Coach Keiron Cunningham admitted his side paid a heavy price for their first-half defensive errors.

"Our marker play was extremely poor, we became victims of our own errors in defence," he said. "You can't give as good a side as Leeds so many chances around the ruck. They've got a great nine and a lot of good support players.

"Resilience and scramble is always very good from Saints but our ruck defence let us down massively.

"The frustrating thing is that when we came out in the second half after speaking about it at half-time we turn into a different side. If we had done that in the first half, I am sure it would have been a completely different game."

Cunningham defended his decision to reintroduce Walsh gradually following his eight-month injury absence, revealing that he will start next week's game against Widnes.

"There was always a plan to introduce Luke Walsh back into the game," Cunningham said. "He's come from a very severe long-term injury and I had to hold my nerve.

"We'll start him next week. I knew he'd make a difference in the game because he's a great seven."

.....to say nothing of our wide "defence"

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:22 am  

saint at wire wrote:

.....to say nothing of our wide "defence"

I'm sure he knows our edge defence is poor. It's been vulnerable all season but our cover defence got us out of trouble. If he doesn't know we having trouble on the edges then we in deep trouble.

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:33 am  

St pete wrote:

I'm sure he knows our edge defence is poor. It's been vulnerable all season but our cover defence got us out of trouble. If he doesn't know we having trouble on the edges then we in deep trouble.

He was critical of our edges early in the season, praising our 'middles' (which he can't do now because they've caught up). It's alright him making these comments but he's doing sod all about the problems.

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:43 am  

Kieron go out and get a bloody fullback for this season then Tommy can go back on the wing with Percival as his Centre.

Oh and tell Mose to go home now!!

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:46 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

He was critical of our edges early in the season, praising our 'middles' (which he can't do now because they've caught up). It's alright him making these comments but he's doing sod all about the problems.

The problem with KC, he's still learning his trade and that was my worry when he got the job. If we have fully fit 17 then I think he will do ok but dealing with injuries comes with expernince. Getting your team to adapt when Injuries set in is tough job and Nathan Brown had it down to a art.

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:47 am  

Rommel wrote:

Kieron go out and get a bloody fullback for this season then Tommy can go back on the wing with Percival as his Centre.

Oh and tell Mose to go home now!!

I beleive McDonnell is on the cards again.

I totally agree, send mose home now!

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:33 am  

Our defence was shocking, as was ball retention. Do we even have a defence coach?

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:42 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Our defence was shocking, as was ball retention. Do we even have a defence coach?

Both Wilkin and Turner 6 misses each. I think Walamsley was worse than those two.

Even early in the year when we was unbeaten, we was still looking wide open on the edges (as I posted and was bagged for). We had vea and greenwood missing about 4 tackles a match and Turner outside them missing his standard 4 tackles. That's 8 tackles plus being missed on the edges which agsinst teams like Wigan and leeds will get punished (sourhs exploited us too).


Injuries or no injuries, the is no excuse for missing simple one on one tackles.

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:45 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Our defence was shocking, as was ball retention. Do we even have a defence coach?

Believe it or not Cunningham stated that Sean Long was our Defence Coach. ( One of the best attacking halves in the Superleague era). Cunningham is in charge of the attack, or so he says.

Re: KC Reaction : Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:53 am  

The honeymoon period is over now for KC, he needs to take stock and make changes.
Makinson is not working at full back and is slower that Wello returning the ball, we should keep Lance there and return Makinson to the wing.
In the pack we are back to grab tackling allowing the opposition to offload and get the ball to the fringes.
KC should have seen we had no composure in attack and should have brought on Walsh after 15 mins, currently KC is learning by his mistakes but its costing us points.