Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:19 pm  

Really dissappointed the u19s and Reserves called off this weekend. Love watching attacking play.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:21 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

I think 4 out of our 5 tries we opened them up with passing plays, we seemed to be playing with a bit more patience and composure and kept the pressure on Cas for long periods. Played the conditions better tonight I thought.

We did move it wide more tonight but it looks poor at times. We certainly lack creativity and that's where we will fall short in the big close games.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:26 pm  

St pete wrote:

We did move it wide more tonight but it looks poor at times. We certainly lack creativity and that's where we will fall short in the big close games.

Can't recall us doing any offloads from the forwards, everything was coming through Walshy, we need more improvement come Easter Weekend.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:42 pm  

Big improvement tonight, can't complain.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:13 am  

Your set completion must have been 90% combined with at least 6 forced goal line drop outs, thought we did well to keep,you within 6 baring in mind Millington roberts and moors all off injured unable to return fages added some spice off the bench and roby was exceptional.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:15 am  

LFC Saint wrote:

We can't make clean breaks and our trys are all scored from 10-15 metres out. Gonna be a long old season. Poor attendance again tonight

I don't see that 11,298 is that bad considering we play boring rugby (which I agree we do).

We seem under KC to rely on grunt and not skill nowadays. It seems like another repeat of last season so far.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:23 am  

saint at wire wrote:

I don't see that 11,298 is that bad considering we play boring rugby (which I agree we do).

We seem under KC to rely on grunt and not skill nowadays. It seems like another repeat of last season so far.

11298 is up 12% on last year, which all told, is very good!

We scored some nice tries judging by the highlights, and out in the 3/4s too so we must be doing something right...

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:37 am  

Towns88 wrote:

Your set completion must have been 90% combined with at least 6 forced goal line drop outs, thought we did well to keep,you within 6 baring in mind Millington roberts and moors all off injured unable to return fages added some spice off the bench and roby was exceptional.

We don't stand for that kind of positive talk on here about Saints so unless you have something negative to say then I suggest you sod off!!!!

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:00 am  

It was another weird one. Like last weekend, it's a result you can't grumble at, but I still came away feeling frustrated.

On the plus side, we looked after territory and possession very well, and our kicking game was very good. As is usually the case (Salford game notwithstanding) we also showed guts, and I thought we tried to give it a bit more air at times, albeit usually in a rather ponderous manner.

On the negative, we were generally bereft of shape. We only seemed to have one option available on most of our plays. When we did have dummy runners they were starting so flat that they were overrunning the ball carrier, and obviously not expecting the ball. I made a point of comparing our shape with that of Cas, and there was a massive difference. They often had two forwards available on each side of the dummy half and then a deep staggered line behind that. When they got good possession, they looked far more dangerous than us.

We'll pick up wins like this playing the way we do, but it'll only get us so far. We're so dependent on dominating territory and possession that in games where we get on the wrong side of the penalty count or make a few errors we're really going to struggle.

Re: Rubbish, sack the coach!!!!! : Sat Mar 05, 2016 7:43 am  

Dux wrote:

On the negative, we were generally bereft of shape. We only seemed to have one option available on most of our plays. When we did have dummy runners they were starting so flat that they were overrunning the ball carrier, and obviously not expecting the ball. I made a point of comparing our shape with that of Cas, and there was a massive difference. They often had two forwards available on each side of the dummy half and then a deep staggered line behind that. When they got good possession, they looked far more dangerous than us.

This was our problem last season which has been carried over to this season so far, our flat attack against a defence with good line speed is always a battle confined to the middle. We did have a bit more second phase though last night which Dawson benefited from and not looked at the stats but we seem to respect the ball a bit more which helped with our completions.
We can't really complain though we had Cas under the cosh for long periods, Cas being one of the most creative teams in super league, they have a few injuries now lets see how they perform and adjust there game.