Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:38 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Utter rubbish. That was a brilliant team effort. How many players had the chance to stop that final try for instance? LMS just tickled one Catalan player as he passed through his hands. Your claim is ludicrous.

Foster was utter rubbish that game, his confidence was very low and the Catalans knew he was the weakest link.
No doubt he will get a place back when we have a few wingers injured, he needs to up his performance at all levels when the opportunity comes his way. More speed and bulk might help his cause.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:41 am  

Judder Man wrote:

Foster was utter rubbish that game, his confidence was very low and the Catalans knew he was the weakest link.

The whole team was utter rubbish in that game. Well, in the second half anyway.

I do believe Foster began that game with a great try scored from a kick across by Gaskell.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:44 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Huh? I don't hear you criticising Jon Wilkin for having his shop! Foster has shown wisdom there that a lot of RL players don't display: he has taken steps to secure his future post rugby. Wilkin advised him.

Well, I hardly think playing in the u20s is going to give him a lot to say about the rugby is it? And since he has just opened a business he will want to promote it. Again, a wise move.

Wilkin is another that's lost sight of his rugby career and his constant banging on about doing something for when he retires and constant plugging of wanting to get into media shows this.

Fair enough, he's got to set himself after rugby but he's paid to do the job in hand and IMO he's not done that for long time now.

Jamie foster is great lad, brilliant with the young kids when they see him in the street or when he's watching his mates play first team rugby but he become to flash and it effected his rugby.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:46 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

The whole team was utter rubbish in that game. Well, in the second half anyway.

I do believe Foster began that game with a great try scored from a kick across by Gaskell.

I find it strange you can crucify Meli for losing games due to his mistakes but you can make excuse for Jamie foster who has cost us games this year and possibly cost us a top four finish.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:52 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

The whole team was utter rubbish in that game. Well, in the second half anyway.

I do believe Foster began that game with a great try scored from a kick across by Gaskell.

My memory banks tells me we did reasonably OK in the first half. It was in the 2nd half Catalans changed there game plan and got the ball out quicker to the wings. Foster stood out more as a liabilty than the rest of the team and remember quite well of his uncertainity in an already weak defensive line.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:58 am  

Sending him out on loan to someone like Cas, London, Widnes, etc would probably do him good. Rhys Williams has just joined Cas from Warrington for a month, maybe Foster could join Cas afterwards. It would be a test of whether he wants to fight or not.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:59 am  

St pete wrote:

I find it strange you can crucify Meli for losing games due to his mistakes but you can make excuse for Jamie foster who has cost us games this year and possibly cost us a top four finish.

Meli = alleged international, too many years on the clock, routinely lets us down in the big games esp grand finals (the last one for which I will never forgive him), is lazy and is a defensive liability usually when we most need him to be a rock.

Foster = not an international, one full season and a bit on the clock, a goal kicking legend (who kicked a penalty from halfway in the last grand final and didn't let us down), looks for work and until the early part of this season while physically at a disadvantage worked hard in defence.

Nah, I can't see why I would make 'excuses' for Foster but not Meli!

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:00 am  

Foster should be using his time out to concentrate on putting on some beef. An extra stone would make a big difference to his game. At the moment he's too light to be of any use returning kicks or bringing the ball out of dummy half. These are massively important aspects of the modern game, especially if you rely as heavily on quick play the balls as we do. His lack of size means he also gets bullied in defence. IMO the reason his confidence is shot is because he knows he isn't physically competitive. A season out of the limelight working on his physique would do him no harm at all, and could see him return as a different player next year, possibly even at centre.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:04 am  

Dux wrote:

A season out of the limelight working on his physique would do him no harm at all, and could see him return as a different player next year, possibly even at centre.

I don't know why people say this kind of thing. Have you not heard of genetics? He may well have been working hard on his physique for all we know but the lad has the genes he has and he could spend all day and night working out with very little to show for it if that's what's been given to him by his predecessors.

Re: The end of Jamie Foster? : Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:07 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

I don't know why people say this kind of thing. Have you not heard of genetics? He may well have been working hard on his physique for all we know but the lad has the genes he has and he could spend all day and night working out with very little to show for it if that's what's been given to him by his predecessors.

Well if that's the case then he will never be good enough to command a regular spot at a top club.

But I don't think it's necessarily true. Obviously he's never going to be massive, but there's no reason why he couldn't add a stone.