Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:22 pm  

Tony Stark wrote:

Knowing the board I would highly doubt it would be as much as you think between the two salaries, LMS will undoubtably be on slightly more due to a number of factors but I would wager it won't be that much more.

Having said that i'm guessing LMS came to us with more first team starts under his belt and as a player still very much wanted by his club whereas I got the opinion Bryn certainly didn't feel wanted by Wigan at the time.

I think Louie is more of an athlete and could play a role similar to TP later down the line, IF he progresses.

Wigan had three young props, Prescott, Hargreaves and O'Carroll. At the time they made the correct decision to let Hargreaves go, but then O'Carroll got that injury that has kept him out of the game for over twelve months.
I guess that's sport for you.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:24 pm  

While we didn't get the calls tonight, and one or two calls were dodgy to say the least, they weren't the reason we lost IMO. We came with a much, much better attitude than we had against Wigan. However, our defence was poor again, we lost our composure again (meaning brainfarts) and we dropped too much ball again.

Having said all that, I was anticipating a loss and so I am not feeling the shock of last week. I thought it was quite sad that we lost tonight actually when clearly we did actually have the ability to win. Had those things that I just listed not been a part of our game.

We aren't ready to beat the teams above us. Maybe this season we won't be. Or maybe we will. Still nine games to go to find out, I guess.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:04 pm  

just like to say that you as fans were great today stayed to the end even after the drop goal by briers. well done. a lot of teams fans would have started to walk (not mentioning any names) but not you, great support for your team.

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Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:26 pm  

You are adding nothing to this thread. If you have nothing constructive to say, don't say anything.

TS

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:34 am  

We where decent, but not great. No one should win after giving an 18 - 0 head start. Other than 10 mins we where good. But that's the same as saying apart from losing we would have won.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:23 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

While we didn't get the calls tonight, and one or two calls were dodgy to say the least, they weren't the reason we lost IMO. We came with a much, much better attitude than we had against Wigan. However, our defence was poor again, we lost our composure again (meaning brainfarts) and we dropped too much ball again.

Having said all that, I was anticipating a loss and so I am not feeling the shock of last week. I thought it was quite sad that we lost tonight actually when clearly we did actually have the ability to win. Had those things that I just listed not been a part of our game.

We aren't ready to beat the teams above us. Maybe this season we won't be. Or maybe we will. Still nine games to go to find out, I guess.

Dodgy calls? Dreaming love. Silverwood piggy backed you up the field most of the time. Granted, you made use of the field position brilliantly against the leagues best defence. But don't make out you had a rough day from the ref.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:25 am  

Nikaed wrote:

Dodgy calls? Dreaming love. Silverwood piggy backed you up the field most of the time. Granted, you made use of the field position brilliantly against the leagues best defence. But don't make out you had a rough day from the ref.

Er, I didn't. I was saying that it wasn't the ref who was the problem, as you would know if you read the first sentence of my post.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:41 am  

Nikaed wrote:

Dodgy calls? Dreaming love. Silverwood piggy backed you up the field most of the time. Granted, you made use of the field position brilliantly against the leagues best defence. But don't make out you had a rough day from the ref.

I see you are using the penalty count 1 in your favour to say we got the calls from the ref again.


Are you just ignoring the penalties you got which gave you field position to score????

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:53 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

Well hopefully we wont 'fix' it the way you did.

Don't forget back then you were too busy breaking the salary cap anyway.

Re: Dire v Saints game thread .. : Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:19 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

Pretty much everyone but smith thought so.

I really didn't think it was obstruction, for me it was a fair try, the unfortunate thing is the amount that get disallowed wrongly over the season.

Lomax at Bradford being a recent case.