Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:06 am  

Well they do say brown likes to tinker so maybe he will switch la franki and TP.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:11 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

Well they do say brown likes to tinker so maybe he will switch la franki and TP.

It will be interesting what our pack looks like next year under Brown.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:24 am  

St pete wrote:

It will be interesting what our pack looks like next year under Brown.

Hopefully not as pathetic as Hudds did at the end , Gilmour at prop ??????????

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:29 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

Hopefully not as pathetic as Hudds did at the end , Gilmour at prop ??????????

I don't think he will have to do stuff like that at saints as we've got better depth and better quality of players.

I'll be interested to see how he sees TP, will he be prop or backrow?

If he sees him as a second row, that will see sia, Manu and TP fighting for the secondrow spots.

Could Sia play 13 or will have wilkin as a extra ball player?

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:55 pm  

Lance was very much improved. It was good to see him playing with a bit of aggression and taking the line on. We still desperately lack a kicking game when him and Lomax play together, though.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:08 pm  

Dux wrote:

Lance was very much improved. It was good to see him playing with a bit of aggression and taking the line on. We still desperately lack a kicking game when him and Lomax play together, though.

Agree,best game easily from Lance last night,but as you say we are desperate for a decent kicking game.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:16 pm  

We have lance for three more years on what must be a fairly substantial wodger of salary cap, so like him or not we have to get the best out of him. He has shown on a couple of occasions this year that he is a very good player, and never gives less than 100% commitment. We need to play to his strengths, which don't include a kicking game or half backs vision but do have speed and evasiveness. Saints game evolved when long took over from goulding, they were both very different players. Brown wants a half back as a priority, if the best we could hope for was smith then we are better sticking with what we have got.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:30 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

We have lance for three more years on what must be a fairly substantial wodger of salary cap, so like him or not we have to get the best out of him. He has shown on a couple of occasions this year that he is a very good player, and never gives less than 100% commitment. We need to play to his strengths, which don't include a kicking game or half backs vision but do have speed and evasiveness. Saints game evolved when long took over from goulding, they were both very different players. Brown wants a half back as a priority, if the best we could hope for was smith then we are better sticking with what we have got.

The difference is that before Long developed into a good ball player he had Martyn to lead the team around the park and do the lion's share of the kicking. Hohaia doesn't have that luxury.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:43 pm  

People need to realise that every player from down under does not come into Super League and play well immediately. We have had players in the past who have taken a season to settle in and then become a valuable member of the team. Hohaia has took a while to settle, but with him at stand off and J-Lo at scrum half we have lost only 3 games ( we all know which ones ). He brings something to the team and Lomax plays better with him along side him. It's quite simple to me that he should be our 1st choice stand off unless injured.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:12 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

Hohaia has took a while to settle, but with him at stand off and J-Lo at scrum half we have lost only 3 games ( we all know which ones ). He brings something to the team and Lomax plays better with him along side him. It's quite simple to me that he should be our 1st choice stand off unless injured.

Agree completely. Gaskell provides good back up for injurys or as a different option from the bench. But hohaia and lomax should be our half back combination.