Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:43 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Putting Antipodean over 30s ahead of developing the kids again I see. I wonder what Rogues' excuse is for this failure?

They have a "star"(expensive) Antipodean playing in the u 20's by the name of Amos Roberts!

The Saints u 18's are a very good crop of youngsters & most of them are only 17 & most of them are signed up. They are touring Australia in Oct/Nov. The majority of the team have come through from Portico u 16's & were National Champions last year, being coached by one Bernard Dwyer.

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:51 pm  

bocaboca wrote:

They have a "star"(expensive) Antipodean playing in the u 20's by the name of Amos Roberts!

The Saints u 18's are a very good crop of youngsters & most of them are only 17 & most of them are signed up. They are touring Australia in Oct/Nov. The majority of the team have come through from Portico u 16's & were National Champions last year, being coached by one Bernard Dwyer.

Get him back at Saints. lol

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:23 pm  

Agent Mulder wrote: Most of our under 20's though are either on standby for first team duties or are playing for first team. Wigan are still in 9th place in the under 18's though. If you look on the official Saints site they have a league table which shows Saints top and Wigan 9th. I've just looked in the League Express, the League Weekly and the RFL site. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables and there are no tables published for the U18's Now if Saints want to make an U18 table, then good for them. But here's a question. Why didn't they do one for the U15's and U16's. And guess which match reports they conveniently forgot to report at those levels?

Agent Mulder wrote: Most of our under 20's though are either on standby for first team duties or are playing for first team. Wigan are still in 9th place in the under 18's though. If you look on the official Saints site they have a league table which shows Saints top and Wigan 9th. I've just looked in the League Express, the League Weekly and the RFL site. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables and there are no tables published for the U18's Now if Saints want to make an U18 table, then good for them. But here's a question. Why didn't they do one for the U15's and U16's. And guess which match reports they conveniently forgot to report at those levels?

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:30 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

<sour grapes>

Just accept the reality Rogues: our u18s blow yours out of the water. If the group stays together, they may even beat you in an u20s Grand Final! (Assuming your group is ever good enough to get there, obviously!)

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:59 pm  

The australian tourist team is on a new topic on the st helens forum page if you have a look

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:07 pm  

You're picking out the fact that you have better U18's than us. Okay then we'll mention that our 20's and first team are better than you. So were our scholarship teams...

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:18 pm  

justarugbyfan wrote:

You're picking out the fact that you have better U18's than us. Okay then we'll mention that our 20's and first team are better than you. So were our scholarship teams...

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:34 pm  

Mr Miagi wrote:

:SLEEPY:

Hmm no replies anyone?

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:26 am  

The U18's is always a strange competition. It depends many times on the age of the players. Some teams may have as many as eight or more first year 16 year olds in their side playing against a team with eight or more third year 18 players. It makes a huge difference, particularly in the forwards and that's why you see results start to change towards the end of the season as the first year players start to develop physically. Then about this time of year you get the next intake of young players who may (or may not) be better than the previous incumbents.

Re: ST Helens U18 vs Cas : Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:57 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: I've just looked in the League Express, the League Weekly and the RFL site. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables and there are no tables published for the U18's Now if Saints want to make an U18 table, then good for them. But here's a question. Why didn't they do one for the U15's and U16's. And guess which match reports they conveniently forgot to report at those levels? Just Looked at the u18s Table on the Saints website and you have got Cas down as losing 5 games infact they have lost only 3 look at the results on the rlf site.

Rogues Gallery wrote: I've just looked in the League Express, the League Weekly and the RFL site. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables and there are no tables published for the U18's Now if Saints want to make an U18 table, then good for them. But here's a question. Why didn't they do one for the U15's and U16's. And guess which match reports they conveniently forgot to report at those levels? Just Looked at the u18s Table on the Saints website and you have got Cas down as losing 5 games infact they have lost only 3 look at the results on the rlf site.