Re: We need some halfbacks! : Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:41 pm  

Heard a rumour last weekend that you're after Dobson, wether it's for next season or for the remainder of this one I don't know. Of course it could be a load of bollox but heard it off 3 separate people.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:48 pm  

Happy Red wrote:

Heard a rumour last weekend that you're after Dobson, wether it's for next season or for the remainder of this one I don't know. Of course it could be a load of bollox but heard it off 3 separate people.

There is wanting and getting. Dobson is on a hefty contract at Hull KR and a long term deal at that. Wouldn't be cheap buying him out of his current deal.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:03 pm  

Today should have made absolutely clear how poor a team we are because we have no HBs. We struggled to break down a Hull KR defence and they must have one of the worst in the league. No disrespect intended with that, I think Rovers are very weak in that area.

We had countless chances and never really looked like creating a try. Our tries came from breaks and we looked pretty dangerous from deep, but when any sort of pressure was on us to create something when we had them on their own line, we fell flat footed and just didn't have any craft in getting over the line.

We need to do something about this NOW. If we don't, then it's going to be a nothing season. I reckon that it'll be Wilkin and Wellens/Hohaia until next season and that's really depressing.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:50 pm  

Call me a bad fan but if Eamonn (or whoever is in charge of recruitment) do not find us a TOP halfback by next season. Then i will not be renewing my season ticket, you cannot fault the players. Theyre like a top class horse running without a leg. This is the Senior guys fault.

A club like saints who consider themselves one of the biggest clubs in the world to have a half back pairing of Wellens and Wilkin is noting but embarrasing. This is not because of injuries, it's because we have let recruitment go tits up over the last few years and lots of short sighted views.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:33 pm  

Wellens is an embarrassment to the player he once was. I said about three or four years ago on here that he will retire a joke figure and not the legend he WAS.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:35 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Wilkin at least is doing an average job at 7, wello though is the worst 6 I've ever witnessed!

He makes Daryl Powell look good and that takes some doing !

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:40 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Wellens is an embarrassment to the player he once was. I said about three or four years ago on here that he will retire a joke figure and not the legend he WAS.

And it looks sadly as if you will be proved correct. My personal view would be he should not be playing at all but if we have to play him sticking him anywhere in the backs or halfback is just cruel as it's making him look a fool

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:44 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Wellens is an embarrassment to the player he once was. I said about three or four years ago on here that he will retire a joke figure and not the legend he WAS.

You're often prone to exaggerate the negetives, but you may well end up bob-on with this.

Why would we persist with this!?

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:48 am  

One eyed monster wrote:

Then i will not be renewing my season ticket.

You wont be the only one. This is the worst Saints halfback 'pairing' I've ever seen by a long way and I'm sure you wont be the only person wondering why you should renew your ticket to watch a second row and a tired old fullback huffing and puffing in the middle of the park desperately trying to add some creativity.

Re: We need some halfbacks! : Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:50 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

You're often prone to exaggerate the negetives, but you may well end up bob-on with this.

Why would we persist with this!?

I cant believe Brown cant see what the rest of us can . It's bl00dy obvious to anyone with eyes who knows anything about Rugby that Wello is just terrible at 6