Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:36 pm  

The Ginger Pearl wrote:

its not too bad if you get a decent fullback.

Imagine your backline with Sam T in it:

Sam
Whoever you're other winger is?
Shenton
Meli
Foster
Pryce
Lomax

Miles better. But with wellens it just looks slow and unimaginative.

Although saying that Sam at fullback with any other back line in SL wouldnt look so bad.

As an opposition fan i defo see Wellens as a weak link now though. Shadow of a player he once was.

Maybe, but I tell you what, Wigan having Joel at centre inside Charnley is an accident waiting to happen. We managed to haul ourselves back into the QF by literally going back there set after set and Saints got themselves back into todays game from the brink, it's ann accident waiting to happen.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:39 pm  

Who should / could we bring in and who can/ should be released to accommodate?

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:40 pm  

Get Kev Penny, your fans used to love him when he played for us.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:42 pm  

Mr Miagi wrote:

Who should / could we bring in and who can/ should be released to accommodate?

The recruitment should have been done much better over the last 5 years. We should have replaced both meli and ade before now. We've left it to late that now we need 3/4 players.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:48 pm  

I've said it before and I'll say it again....." Foster is a one trick pony.

Makinson on the other hand already looks the better player.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:52 pm  

LovesToSpooge wrote:

I've said it before and I'll say it again....." Foster is a one trick pony.

Makinson on the other hand already looks the better player.

If he couldn't kick goals he wouldn't be playing.

Sorry Jamie but it's true.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:56 pm  

JWP wrote:

Maybe, but I tell you what, Wigan having Joel at centre inside Charnley is an accident waiting to happen. We managed to haul ourselves back into the QF by literally going back there set after set and Saints got themselves back into todays game from the brink, it's ann accident waiting to happen.

Who would you put at centre? Youve presented one of our weaknesses (overstated IMO) but no solution

I think you'll find we have one seasoned centre at the club since gleeson left

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:01 pm  

St pete wrote:

If he couldn't kick goals he wouldn't be playing.

Sorry Jamie but it's true.

He'd be at Leigh/ Barrow/Widnes.

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:01 pm  

St pete wrote:

If he couldn't kick goals he wouldn't be playing.

Sorry Jamie but it's true.

Having seen Jamie in the academy, i would dispute this in its entirety.

Jamie is a very skilful young threequarter. He isnt blisteringly quick, but he has a good rugby brain on him.
Provided he continues to develop i see no reason why he cant have a very long and successful RL career

Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again..... : Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:03 pm  

Apparently James Roby was playing with a serious injury today so that would explain why he was a bit off. Leon Pryce was well off the ball. He was supposed to be our creative dynamic and totally failed on that score, taking wrong options and his kicking was terrible. Wello went backwards from last week and he knew it too. But maybe he was one of the walking wounded from last week as well. Who knows? This season nobody seems to be fit. Jamie Foster had a poor game, and kicking out on the full from a kicker of his quality was sinful. To say he is a poor three quarter, though, is ridiculous. He has helped to win games this season and not just with his goal kicking either.

As Simmons said, we were too lateral and not direct enough. I think his game plan was spot on. We riled and disrupted Wigan throughout the first half and should have done the same in the second if we were a team capable of focusing for the full 80 minutes, which we haven't been all season. But we could not execute the game plan because we were effectively operating without halves again.

Poor old Jon Wilkin was the only player who looked remotely like a halfback! Jonny Lomax was awesome in defence sometimes. And I thought Makinson had a very good game. He is pacey, he is courageous in defence, he returns the ball fast and isn't weedy, and he is utterly secure under the high ball.

But having said all that we were simply beaten by the better team on the day.