Re: O'Brien : Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:11 pm  

Reliably informed today (from a friend who works for Warrington Wolves) that Gareth O'Brien will be staying for longer and that Saints are interested in offering him a two year contract.

Re: O'Brien : Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:36 pm  

Murphys Magic wrote:

Reliably informed today (from a friend who works for Warrington Wolves) that Gareth O'Brien will be staying for longer and that Saints are interested in offering him a two year contract.

Aslong as Lomax stays fit at Number 1 then a partnership of O Brien and Walsh would work fine Imo. Split them Left and right recievers and both got decent kicking games. We would lack a running game but thats where Lomax fits in!

Re: O'Brien : Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:51 pm  

Murphys Magic wrote:

Reliably informed today (from a friend who works for Warrington Wolves) that Gareth O'Brien will be staying for longer and that Saints are interested in offering him a two year contract.

This would leave Wheeler in a very tricky position. It really is his last shot at playing for Saints when he comes back after his current injury. Another injury would see the end of his Saints career I reckon.

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:48 am  

Albion wrote:

This would leave Wheeler in a very tricky position. It really is his last shot at playing for Saints when he comes back after his current injury. Another injury would see the end of his Saints career I reckon.

I mentioned that we needed another signing as well as Walsh. If we sign him to end our woes and then he gets injured, we're back toscratching around.

Realistically, you need 3 players to cover the 2 half back positions - taking injury into account.
So we've got Walsh. That's 1.
Wheeler is always, always injured.
Lomax should be kept at fullback.
Wello is hopefully not staying and if he is, is a poor half.
Hohaia and Swift don't really seem in the coaches plans.
Danny Yates has not been used and Dougie Charnock only once, perhaps they're deemed not ready.
Scully has not yet announced his comeback.
Wilkin - ok back up half if there someelse who knows what they're doing.

So on the above, getting GOB on a permanant deal seems a good move, but I do wonder about the likes of Charnock, Yates and Swift - are we getting (or trying to get) as much from these guys as we could be?

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:50 am  

Warrington Wolf wrote:

Were not as fussy in league games. We've had Mitchell, Rhys Williams, Mendika all play & score against us in games gone by whilst out on loan.
It wouldn't be right allowing a team member to play for someone else in the play offs in my mind should you play them. Imagine if we had Perry on loan and he actually carried the ball forward more than twice? Your fans would go mental

We'd all be in too much shock to make any noise

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:22 am  

Albion wrote:

This would leave Wheeler in a very tricky position. It really is his last shot at playing for Saints when he comes back after his current injury. Another injury would see the end of his Saints career I reckon.

His Saints career is already over, he's just lucky he's got another year of being paid before he joins the queue at the job centre.

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:10 am  

Saddened! wrote:

His Saints career is already over, he's just lucky he's got another year of being paid before he joins the queue at the job centre.

Ah, you never disappoint Saddened.

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:13 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

So on the above, getting GOB on a permanant deal seems a good move, but I do wonder about the likes of Charnock, Yates and Swift - are we getting (or trying to get) as much from these guys as we could be?

Maybe it is/was just too soon for Charnock and Yates - Yates had an injury lets not forget.

It seems that Wigan did not think that Powell and the other HB were ready so brought in Green and Smith. Hopefully Yates and Charnock will be ready to provide proper cover in 2014.

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:43 pm  

I think O'Brien could be just what Wheeler needs to motivate him. The lad must know this is it for him?

Re: O'Brien : Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:54 pm  

Zeus The Saint wrote:

Aslong as Lomax stays fit at Number 1 then a partnership of O Brien and Walsh would work fine Imo. Split them Left and right recievers and both got decent kicking games. We would lack a running game but thats where Lomax fits in!

Yeah, I agree with that. There isn't a great difference between 6 and 7 in the game at the minute anyway to be honest, but O'Brien and Walsh in the halves would certainly help bring the best out of Lomax. With those two pulling the strings in midfield, Robes at 9 and Lomax at 1, we have a spine there who are all capable of bringing the best out of each other. I think we will see a huge difference in our game in an attacking sense next season, and that's starting to become evident. If you have that, and you have those threats, the likes of Manu and Turner start to influence things that little bit more, and that's what's happened over the past couple of weeks.

He hasn't done anything to extravagant, but he provides an element of 'neatness' and structure to our play. That provides our strike players with opportunities, and we have shown both against Bradford and Salford that we are more than capable of creating opportunities, and threatening teams in an attacking sense.