Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:50 am  

Armstrong had a bad day at the office against Hull. He had, I believe, never played fullback, prior to the previous game v Cas. He has never been tagged as a poor catcher until the Hull game. In fact he normally has a safe pair of hands. He is a centre who can play second row. He is OK on the wing. True, he hasn't got the blistering pace over short distances off the mark, but to suggest that he is slow is daft. I'm sure he'll do OK on Friday.

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:54 am  

Can we bring in Ashe for Wellens?

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:21 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Seems familar. There was one game were he went of with a cut and whoever replaced him looked safer - is that right?
To be fair, he's a centre by choice.

Ade got a cut and went off injured meaning Armstrong moved to tue wing and ash to fullback.

Ades cut was a blessing in the end.

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:38 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Can we bring in Ashe for Wellens?

Hopefully, Wellens exposed massively again on Saturday. Time to say good bye (to Fullback at least)

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:32 am  

It's Wello's 400th appearance for us on Friday so he will be playing, and playing at fullback.

Let's hope he has a better game than on Saturday. We will definitely need him to.

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:10 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

It's Wello's 400th appearance for us on Friday so he will be playing, and playing at fullback.

Let's hope he has a better game than on Saturday. We will definitely need him to.

Danny brough will kick him to death. He'll put him under pressure with his long and short kicking game.

We need to put pressure on brough to prevent him getting any sort of good kick in or wello might have a 400th game to forget!

Re: Injuries : Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:13 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Is Forster playing again? I'd like to see him on the bench to make up for Flanders's absence.

The halves will be fine with the above partnership. The long kicking game will help in the face of Huddersfields strong defence.

If we play as good a forward game as we did against Wigan, we should be win through, even if Huddersfield turn up with their A game, which I don't think particulary they are doing at the moment.

Any news on the (Wagon)Wheels?

strong defence?? obviously you have not seen us playing for the last 3 months!!

Re: Injuries : Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:56 am  

bolinsblues wrote:

Armstrong had a bad day at the office against Hull. He had, I believe, never played fullback, prior to the previous game v Cas. He has never been tagged as a poor catcher until the Hull game. In fact he normally has a safe pair of hands. He is a centre who can play second row. He is OK on the wing. True, he hasn't got the blistering pace over short distances off the mark, but to suggest that he is slow is daft. I'm sure he'll do OK on Friday.

I remeber him having very safe hands until this period. I always wanted to see him given more chances and think some other club is going to get a bargain with him next year.
He's not quick of the mark which means he struggles to make yards out of dummy half sometimes.