Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:58 am  

Line speed and commitment in defence was vastly improved. Game fell apart a bit when the rains came.

We massively miss Amor, Walmsley, Laffranchi and manu. Only Mose looked capable of making any ground at all.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 10:58 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I thought Dawson did well again, he seems to get some unfounded criticism from some of the Saints fams IMO.

I'm not on here too much any more so haven't seen any real criticism but I agree that he did well. Going forward he could develop into a real threat, he looks lively on his feet and can break tackles. He may suffer from being shunted between centre and wing like Gelling has, he's looking far better for a regular run of games in one position.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:03 am  

Ultimately, if someone had offered me a 19 point point victory last night at 759pm, i'd have ripped their hand off. Attitude and commitmnet were a million times better than last week.With 10 players out, I wouldn't have expected too much more. Major positives in the performances of Masoe, Wheeler and Flanagan who did a hell of a lot better than I expected. Good to see the senior players in Wello, Wilkin, Robes, Lance and Walsh stand up as well.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:18 am  

I was just happy to see us showing some desire. I thought we were very good in the first half. The 2nd half just saw a drop off in quality in general and was pretty hard to watch in parts, with so many errors knocking about. I'll put that down to the conditions though. I'm just hoping that we're turning the corner, rather than putting it in for one week because of everything that has been said.

At least a win will make my facebook timeline easier to read. The amount of utter idiots that post on that Saints RLFC group is unreal!

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:19 am  

Duke Eddington wrote:

I'm not having a go at Flash in any way, just illustrating the point that Wilkin can't seem to do anything right in some peoples eyes.

I still see Wilkin laughing when he knocked on at the kick off.

Wilkin should also stay in the second row. Since he keeps stepping into the halves in the second half then I assume this is a coaching 'tactic' but all it's doing is undermining our attack. And there are times when he tries organising everyone but that's Walsh's job and tbh he's better at it.

Brown or whoever should play players in their positions, especially while we are depending on so many inexperienced players. It frustrated me last night because I could see how we just kept going left once Wilkin stepped in.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:49 am  

i dont think brown looked happy in the interview after the game!

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:52 am  

RIGSBY wrote:

i dont think brown looked happy in the interview after the game!

I'm surprised you can tell! He pretty much always looks and sounds the same to me.

The second half spoiled the first half though. We still have a long way to go.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 11:57 am  

Duke Eddington wrote:

I agree also that he had a good game
According to the stats Wilkin missed 1 tackle. Less than Flanagan( whilst they made the exact same total). Yet people are saying Flanagan had a good game defensively. Plus Wilkin made twice as many yards as him.
I'm not having a go at Flash in any way, just illustrating the point that Wilkin can't seem to do anything right in some peoples eyes.

Wilkin could play like Ellery Hanley every game and still get negative comments on here.

He was excellent last night. He was brilliant in the first few weeks and that last night was back to that form. He's certainly not the only one to lose some form over the last few weeks but because of his perceived wage and desire to further himself when his career is over, people thing he's more bothered about other things than rugby. You won't find many players who try harder or care more for Saints but it doesn't suit the argument of most on here.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 12:57 pm  

The attitude and commitment were miles better than in recent games but we still look like we're likely to ship points every time the opposition get on our line. If we want to avoid embarrassment in the play-offs that will need to be fixed.

Re: Your Reaction to the Huddersfield Game : Sat May 24, 2014 1:23 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

We looked more enthusiastic and were prepared to bend our back a bit.

However I felt that the result was more a reflection of Huddersfield being awful than Saints being sensational.

I was expecting a lot more from them. Their forwards were anonymous, and Danny Brough was not at the races all night.

On that showing Huddersfield looked at best a mid table team.

spot on with that, never stood up at all and were outplayed in every department by a fairly average saints team who just ran hard and straight and passed and tackled better. simple basic rugby league that we just didn't seem to grasp.when we are that bad then most teams don't need to work hard to beat us, just do the basics and wait for us to self destruct.