Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:25 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

If you want to be sure that a blunder won't be made, I'm not sure Gardner is your man

Not much between ade and foster. Both struggle to beat a man, both average with ball in and both dodgy in defence and under kicks.

They both can finish very well near the line.

I think Jamie is in danger of believing his own hype and more concerned with how he looks instead of playing rugby. I highly rated him over the last season and half but the back end of last year hed become a liability.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:45 pm  

I think people have forgotten that Ade was in good form and had a new lease of life under Royce prior to his season ending injury. His defence was good on Friday and he ran the ball up strongly.
Seems as though we have quite a few 3 into 2 selection problems at half back and wing, our biggest problem short term is lack of quality of centres. Think I would put Sia in at centre for part of the games, to add some "punch".

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:04 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Think I would put Sia in at centre for part of the games, to add some "punch".

Hell no. His defence is crap. It was crap on Friday. And wasn't he partnering Meli in the GF when Shenny went off injured? Nightmare.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:11 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Hell no. His defence is crap. It was crap on Friday. And wasn't he partnering Meli in the GF when Shenny went off injured? Nightmare.

I agree, the days of sia playing centre are long gone.

I think lomax moved to the Wing when shenton went off at old Trafford as he dine his ankle, so think it was Meli and lomax on the left when they punished us.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:16 pm  

St pete wrote:

I think lomax moved to the Wing when shenton went off at old Trafford as he dine his ankle, so think it was Meli and lomax on the left when they punished us.

Nope. Lomax went to the wing, then centre, then further infield. Meli was on the wing and Soliola at centre. Leeds realised then that Christmas had come early.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:51 pm  

St pete wrote:

Not much between ade and foster. Both struggle to beat a man, both average with ball in and both dodgy in defence and under kicks.

They both can finish very well near the line.

I think Jamie is in danger of believing his own hype and more concerned with how he looks instead of playing rugby. I highly rated him over the last season and half but the back end of last year hed become a liability.

That may well have been the case, but having read through his twitter feed at the weekend he was critical of his own performance, that's not what I would expect from someone believing his own hype.

He's a young lad with time on his side, mistakes will be made and it's how he reacts to these which will determine the player he will become.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:38 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

He's a young lad with time on his side, mistakes will be made and it's how he reacts to these which will determine the player he will become.

I think it was noteworthy that at one point he made a deliberate call for a bomb and caught it. His game improved after this.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:29 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Nope. Lomax went to the wing, then centre, then further infield. Meli was on the wing and Soliola at centre. Leeds realised then that Christmas had come early.

Is that what happened? Meli started at left centre, but got shuffled to the wing when Wellens went off, but didn't he then swap to right centre when Shents got injured?
Anyway, no to Soliola in the centre. Shenton, Wheeler, Meli and indeed Makinson would be preferable to for me. Keep the beef in the middle. Despite a couple of missed tackles, Soliola came up with a few monster plays on Friday.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:40 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Is that what happened? Meli started at left centre, but got shuffled to the wing when Wellens went off, but didn't he then swap to right centre when Shents got injured?

Meli was on the wing. That bit I'm never going to forget! I remember saying to my Dad sitting next to me that we are finished because Meli is on the wing.

Re: Saints first home game v Widnes : Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:10 pm  

Fully fit there are selection problems all over the field for royce.

There is no reason to player the same team week in and week out. We had four/five props in the widnes match if you count megennis. You add TP to that rotation is a must for a fully fit front row. That means some weeks TP or La frank dont play whilst megeniis does.

Same in the backs we dont have to play the same FB each week or the same wingers. I know you can only rotate so much to maintain fitness but take the easter weekend.If we have a fully fit side why not.

wigan game

Wellens. Foster. meli. shenton. makinson. lance. gaskell. TP.roby.LMS.Wilkin.sia.Flanaghan.

easter monday

makinson. foster. wheeler. shenton. gardner. lance. lomax
Clough. roby. perry. dixon. sia. flannery