Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:34 am  

MacBlondie wrote: If its torn ankle ligaments, you are looking at 2 months before you can even walk again, let alone train Not necessarily. It all depends on how bad the ankle sprain is. And he will have access to the kind of facilities us mere mortals don't have when we sprain our ankles!

MacBlondie wrote: If its torn ankle ligaments, you are looking at 2 months before you can even walk again, let alone train Not necessarily. It all depends on how bad the ankle sprain is. And he will have access to the kind of facilities us mere mortals don't have when we sprain our ankles!

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:34 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Reasonably encouraging veiwing for the saints fans though, i'd say, as he does apparently possess the one thing we crave at the moment - pace.

Definitely.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:48 am  

Kevin Brown was at fault for the first try imo. Too slow moving across the defensive line which resulted in a overlap. Brown did this a number of times in the game.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:10 pm  

Shenton could do with the rest so disappointing from an England point of view but not disastrous for us.

I echo the sentiment about him being better than Atkins the other day, in fact I would go one step further and say that Shenton's done more in a handful of games at this level than many other more celebrated and decorated players.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:12 pm  

He really impressed me in the 2nd half, and I have never been a huge fan of him in the past. Atkins was a liability IMO.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:51 pm  

I quite like Shenton, but do have a major concern, one that is raised in todays League Weekly by their columnist Danny Lockwood.

Shenton is not a wingers centre. I don't think that Goulding (or Hall last week) got a decent pass.
The same could probably be said of Atkins btw.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:07 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I quite like Shenton, but do have a major concern, one that is raised in todays League Weekly by their columnist Danny Lockwood.

Shenton is not a wingers centre. I don't think that Goulding (or Hall last week) got a decent pass.
The same could probably be said of Atkins btw.

Shentons more of a centre than Atkins imo. I see Atkins as similar to Goulding where they were (or are) wingers playing at centre.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:15 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Shenton is not a wingers centre.

I think the general concencus amongst the Cas fans was that this area of his game was OK.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:28 pm  

inside_man wrote:

Shentons more of a centre than Atkins imo. I see Atkins as similar to Goulding where they were (or are) wingers playing at centre.

I couldnt disagree more. Goulding is nothing like Atkins, they are totally different players. Goulding had never even played on the wing until last season and he has always been an out and out centre. Goulding has always been a good wingers centre and has always been quite a skillful centre in terms of setting up his winger.

On Shenton he does appear to be a greedy player and doesnt even look to pass. His defence is dodgy at times but I think that is down to his positioning more than anything else and he certainly wasnt helped by Brown on his inside. He is still young and and obviously has a lot of potential and he definately has a lot more about him than Atkins.

Re: shenton : Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:54 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I quite like Shenton, but do have a major concern, one that is raised in todays League Weekly by their columnist Danny Lockwood.

Shenton is not a wingers centre. I don't think that Goulding (or Hall last week) got a decent pass.
The same could probably be said of Atkins btw.

Depends who has been on his outside at Cas, Gidley was a wingers centre until he started to play with Gardner