Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:39 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Laffranchi is an honest, if undersized grafter who has looked lacklustre this season. What he does have is a decent offload (which we seem to under use), that move that he a roby does near the tryline that he scores from and (one we saw last night) the odd tackle that'll cut a guy in two. He did the latter last night to force one of their eroors.
To be fair, he was ok going forward too - it goes to show that when you turn up as a team, things go a lot better for you.

Laffranchi tackles okay, but he runs the ball in really soft. He just needs to put more effort in, charge the ball in and hurt players in defense, just give it everything. At the moment he plays like it's a training warmup, everything is in second gear. Same with LMS, if he plays like last night, he'd be a great player, but he doesn't.

Saints need to look at how Leeds, Wire, Wigan and Huddersfield do things. Their game is 100% aggression, they tackle to hurt and do everything with a solidity and extra effort to physically dominate and intimidate the opposition.

Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:51 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

if he plays like last night, he'd be a great player, but he doesn't.

This is the key point, for me.
Boof went well enough last night, but as you say, most weeks he generally wanders aimlessly into contact for little gain.

One wonders if the vibe of Browns "experimental phase" has soaked into the senior forwards and has affected their attitude to the weekly rounds. Perhaps once we hit the playoffs and Brown moves to execute his masterplan, will the motivation crank up a gear?

Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:57 pm  

First time I've seen Langtree Park rocking!

Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:25 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

First time I've seen Langtree Park rocking!

Playoff semi final last year was well rocking at the end

Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:59 pm  

Someone was commenting on Wigan and how they blitz teams in the opening 20 minutes.

Maybe this is something we should be working on. Against Wigan and Leeds, Warrington, the natural urgency and intensity is there. So you get a performance like last night.

However, against other (lesser) teams we have lacked that from the forwards. If it's an issue then we need to work on some motivation, if that is copying Wigan and trying to blitz teams in the opening 20, then so be it.

You could argue we are all plan B, with no plan A.

Re: Atmosphere last night : Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:05 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

First time I've seen Langtree Park rocking!

Indeed.

You just felt it was going to be a special night. Wilkin saying we were going to rip in during the week, Wigan without Tomkins and the build up by SKY about our past success and recent losses. It was all building up to a moment and thank god we got it.

Re: Atmosphere last night : Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:54 pm  

Best atmosphere there's been at LP. Probably the best at a home game since we left KR. W4 was bouncing from start to finish, but all three stands really got behind the lads and drove them on.

Special night.

Re: Atmosphere last night : Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:49 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Thanks. I contributed to it most. Gotta get behind the boys.

I bet you were the one high fiving Wellens at the end

Saddened! wrote:

This season and it's tribulations are the fault of the board (No half backs and the worst overseas players we've ever had in Laffranchi and Hohaia), the coach (Stupid selection decisions and a lack of proper attacking structures) and the players (Lack of effort and commitment). The fans are just a perfect mirror of that, reflecting back what goes on.

Must disagree with this...if you think Hohaia and Laffranchi are the worst we've ever had you cannot have seen Phil Adamson, Darrell Trindall, Heath Cruckshank, Bryan Henare, Leon Felton and you missed the blatantly obvious one in Josh Perry

Re: Atmosphere last night : Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:20 am  

First home game I had to miss all season.. think I better stay away every week!

Re: Atmosphere last night : Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:36 pm  

Interesting, given that some people have said that it's the ground at fault for the lack of atmosphere in the past. I think Monday conclusively disproves that.