Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:13 am  

St pete wrote:

Isn't it the same with jammer? He's not signed a new deal, he stayed behind in oz after the four nations to talk to a number of NRL clubs, he's keeping the club hanging on, he's also playing his worst rugby in a saints shirts but nobody booing him or calling for him to go.

People are beginning to notice and to comment. It's just that Jammer has earned a lot of respect at the club due to his commitment and performances. He has achieved an awful lot already. So, rightly, fans are giving him greater leeway than Kyle.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:17 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

People are beginning to notice and to comment. It's just that Jammer has earned a lot of respect at the club due to his commitment and performances. He has achieved an awful lot already. So, rightly, fans are giving him greater leeway than Kyle.

Sorry but that is no excuse for jammer who has been very poor this year by his standards.

What he's achieved in the past should have no bearing on the fact he's doing the same thing as Kyle.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:20 am  

St pete wrote:

Sorry but that is no excuse for jammer who has been very poor this year by his standards.

What he's achieved in the past should have no bearing on the fact he's doing the same thing as Kyle.

I agree entirely and I actually found myself getting annoyed with him at the match last night. We needed our senior players to stand up. But they didn't.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:25 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

I agree entirely and I actually found myself getting annoyed with him at the match last night. We needed our senior players to stand up. But they didn't.

I think the problem is the senior players we have are not leaders anymore. Longy, scully, KC, joynt was great leaders but this team IMO don't have one.

Graham works his socks off but IMO he ain't a proper captain and same goes for wello.

It also seems Royce lacks any leadership.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:37 am  

Ashy wrote:

Gaskell was awful. Partly due to eastmond been disgraceful but he was still awful.

Rubbish. Gaskell made a couple of bad errors, a kick out of the full and a pass into touch towards the end, but he worked hard, ghosted through early on (when we were 10-0 down and after Flanders remarkeable tackle to win a drop out) which we could have scored form if the support had been there, put Meli in with a nice long pass, had a hand in the build up to Graham's try and put Moore in once for it to be pulled back for a marginal forward pass. He was not the problem.

Given his half back partner spend the first 60 mins primerly hanging out in the centre, i reckon it was a pretty good show for a guy in still in his first few appearences. A partnership of Gaskell and Leon would be fine for me.

I was also happy with Lomax's performance tonight. Apart from Clubbs try (which I was about as far away from as possible, so couldn't say for sure whether he was tackled or not), Lomax marshalled him very well and although got limited ball, managed to make at least one break towards the end.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:45 am  

There seem to be a lot of parallels to the time when Wigan lost Faz here. Lack of leadership, poor play, apathetic team, new coach, potential star leaving for RU and booing fans. I can't help think that being homeless doesn't help much either.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:34 am  

Eastmond can't wait to be drinking a pint of wee through a sweaty sock. Why doesn'the just go now?

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:40 am  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

Eastmond can't wait to be drinking a pint of wee through a sweaty sock. Why doesn'the just go now?

Nah wants to stay & drag Saints down

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:59 am  

It was a joke last night. Everything that went wrong was Eastmond fault and i mean everything. Meli run into touch and it was Eastmonds fault, how does that work?

Eastmond was no worse than anyone else last night, and no matter what happens everything will be his fault.

Re: Eastmond at FT : Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:20 pm  

Eastmond must be given a certain degree of slack because he is still in the process of returning from serious injury. But he's too good a player for us not to expect significant improvement out of soon - regardless of how well the team is playing. Let's not forget that he made his name first and foremost on the back of breathtaking INDIVIDUAL play. Which means that even in a poor side he should be capable of shining when given opportunity.