Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:48 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

As I said - Charnock's apparently played a lot of fullback & Makinson has played the majority of his senior games on the wing. Sensible option for me, rather than playing Charnock out of position against Dixon.

I thought Charnock was a halfback?

My point still stands though about team dynamics. Brown himself commented that the team were adapting to Makinson at fullback just as Makinson was adapting to the fullback position, and he was improving there. Fullback is too important a position to be changed around when there was no need to change it around. We lost an attacking threat by taking Makinson out of that spot.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:49 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Robe's is worth about 40 takles a match and Manu was knocking out 35 before his injury -an these are big strong boys who can dominate in the tackle.

Wilkin is another one who tackles his backside off.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:58 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I thought Charnock was a halfback?

My point still stands though about team dynamics. Brown himself commented that the team were adapting to Makinson at fullback just as Makinson was adapting to the fullback position, and he was improving there. Fullback is too important a position to be changed around when there was no need to change it around. We lost an attacking threat by taking Makinson out of that spot.

Six or One equally - only from what people have told me, mind.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:03 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Sorry, but that was a dumb call by Brown, and not the first, and it probably put more pressure on the team than there needed to be.

I don't agree that it was a 'dumb call' tbh. I think it was sensible, although I'd have thought Hohaia would have moved there.

I'd rather Makinson be on the wing than Charnock.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:25 pm  

Albion wrote:

I'd rather Makinson be on the wing than Charnock.

Why? Would Charnock have been a disaster there or something? I don't know the player, only saw him for his half a game against Salford.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:54 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Why? Would Charnock have been a disaster there or something? I don't know the player, only saw him for his half a game against Salford.

Makinson has played on the wing for the first team before, Charnock hasn't.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:11 pm  

Albion wrote:

Makinson has played on the wing for the first team before, Charnock hasn't.

Had Charnock played for the first team at fullback before? I thought he played in the halves against Salford?

I'm confused by your reasoning here, is all. Surely it is less disruptive to play an inexperienced (at first team level) winger than an inexperienced fullback?

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:44 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Surely it is less disruptive to play an inexperienced (at first team level) winger than an inexperienced fullback?

Fair enough, I take your point there.

Was irrelevant anyway as Ashe/Hohaia failed to use the FB or winger much.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:48 pm  

Albion wrote:

Was irrelevant anyway as Ashe/Hohaia failed to use the FB or winger much.

Aye. I read as much in the RL papers this weekend.

Re: THE worst Saints team .. the decline is complete (I hope : Fri May 03, 2013 9:18 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

Not a ****ing clue. Not even the slightest beginnings of one even. What the **** does anyone expect a squad with an entire starting 13 sat on the sidelines to be doing exactly but struggle to win at the moment? Clueless, preposterous, kneejerk, window-licking nonsense.

"Worst Saints team ever"? Just ****ing pitiable...

Still think all this?