Re: Are we the new Wire? : Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:53 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

Well Royce had better come up with something quick then. He has stated that he doesn't want SL to be about quick play-the-balls, but we seem to depend on them more than ever in the big games.

Very little chance of that, I should think. Our halves are rookies, just learning the job. It takes time to coach new approaches into an experienced team, never mind an ever-changing one with rookie halfbacks. We need the off season for that. I'm sure he will address just those kinds of things in the off season. He's seen for himself now what happens when Wigan are on the charge. We can capitulate. Maybe I'm underestimating both Simmons and the team, but I just think it is unlikely with the weekly rounds to consider that he will have the opportunity to do that.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:30 pm  

you need to go through a lot more pain before you are the new, 'old wires'...A LOT MORE!

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:58 pm  

Oxford Exile wrote:

you need to go through a lot more pain before you are the new, 'old wires'...A LOT MORE!

Are you a Warrington supporter by any chance?

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:30 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

But if we're not as good as those teams is losing most of them not what should be happening?

Not necessarily.

Wigan under Noble for instance could usually rise to the big games (yourselves excepted sadly) and beat them, but never looked like putting 3 months worth of consistent performances in.

No-one would doubt for a second that Leeds were a much better team than us in those years, yet the head-to-heads didn't reflect that at all. For all the negativity here, Saints are only 3 points off top spot - I'd have taken that at any point in the 5 years prior to Maguire coming in.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:33 am  

Come of it fellas, have you seen the type of rugby we play these days?

You might have been the new Wire in about 2006.

The only thing you've got in common with us is being plastic scousers who hate Wigan.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:37 am  

The new Wire?

When did Wire last win the league? Or reach the GF? Or even finish above us?

Wire have a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go before they can be compared with St Helens.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:12 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Wire have a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go before they can be compared with St Helens.

Well, they can be compared to us but never favourably. Their fans are still showing due appreciation of us by starting rumours about taking our players. It's Jon Wilkin now who is apparently signing for the Mighty Wire! He's going to join James Graham and Tony Puletua in the ranks of new Wolves apparently.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:19 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Well, they can be compared to us but never favourably. Their fans are still showing due appreciation of us by starting rumours about taking our players. It's Jon Wilkin now who is apparently signing for the Mighty Wire! He's going to join James Graham and Tony Puletua in the ranks of new Wolves apparently.

Jon Wilkin's already bought a house and business in Warrington. Maybe he's been planning the move for a while?

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:10 pm  

Maybe he just wants to live in a good part of the country like Saddened.

Actually having been looking at the threads on this forum it seems very familiar to the Wire board, the same pie-eaters crop up trolling the threads on here that we get on ours.

Re: Are we the new Wire? : Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:47 pm  

Wilkin has a testemonial next year. Unless Saints say they don't want him he's hardly likely to walk out is he?

As for whether we're the new Wire, no. We simply have to accept that it's not possible to keep up the level of excellence we have done for the last 15 years. Our time will come again