Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 10:06 pm  

first 25mins we were same old what weve seen last 5 games. second half i thought we were a pretty good solid outfit just a few idiotic penaltys. love him or hate him i thought wellens was brilliant tonight his bravery in certain situations is unquestionable if leeds has wellens at fb tonight instead of hardaker we wouldnt have won imo.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 10:08 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

All those who have been disrespectful to wello should give him credit tonight, he may not have been in good form but he runs through brick walls for saints. Good on you wello

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 10:32 pm  

Percival struggled a bit defensively, but was well protected by Wilkin. Offensively he was very good. Makes breaks every time he plays. If he carries on at this rate he will be an absolute world beater in a couple of years.

Turner very good all round, tackled everything and strong taking the ball forward. Nearly burst out of a few tackles. Looked like St Pete had had a word in his ear about putting in that little bit extra effort .

Walmsley and Puletua. Devastating going forward.

Wello. Captains knock. Leeds still exposed him for lack of pace with deft kicks, but otherwise he threw everything into that performance

Manu showed a couple of times that if we have him running wide, he could give Percival and Makinson a try feast

Negatives

Perry played the first 15 minutes but isnt remotely match fit.

The opening 20 minutes of the match. Shocking composure and soft defence.

Kicking game weak, both field kicking and goal kicking.

Soliola brain fart that will see him cop a ban.

Ashe, anonymous throughout and struggled defensively.

Wello will probably play the rest of the season at fullback now, denying Lomax the opportunity to dazzle us.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 11:02 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

All those who have been disrespectful to wello should give him credit

To be fair, if he had played like that for the past 4 years no one would have been criticising him in the first place.

Games like that suit him still, but if we are ever in a game where we're competitive in the pack, his lack of contribution to the attack will tell.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 11:14 pm  

Forgetting the first 20 minutes i thought the character and spirit shown was stunning.Great effort to even get the game back level but to go on and win in the manner you did against top quality opponents was great viewing.Given all the injuries and disruption you guys need to just appreciate what your younger players are actually doing.All good experience for them and when the injury crisis starts to ease up you will be in a fantastic position for the rest of the season.
Walmersley was outstanding and if he isnt the best young forward out there this season i would be amazed.Wellens turned back the clock and put in a real show of skill and leadership and as a Salford fan i was really pleased for Stu Howarth.
So congrats on a great win and just look forward to what i am sure will be a real good second half of the season for you guys.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 11:24 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

it was a tough gutsy display after the first 20 mins of shambolic bumbling . Wellens and Will in both stood up and as you say led by example.


on the other end of the scale though Perry was again pretty much turd and Ashe is never superleague class in a million years.


for the older posters here. does anyone else get reminded of George Mann when they see Willie Manu run?

As an old fart, he looks like Goerge Mann but Mann was more dependable but less creative.

As has been said on here Ashe and Perry were dreadful and was Ade (but first game back and all that).
Our kicking was awful, but the forwards eventually got their act together and Walmsley was immense; it seemed to spur on LMS & TP and then the whole team (minus Ashe) got in the Leeds faces and they just couldn't cope.

Been to every home game this year and can't remember (even against dire away) us putting the opposition under so much pressure. It lifted everyone, but Walmsley with a bit of help from Wello and Wilkin got the revival going.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Mon May 20, 2013 11:36 pm  

Having had time to let it all sink in, do you know what I take from that game.

We had it about us to kill off the game. There have been some games were we just have not been minded to see off the game. But tonight we did. We could have cracked under the pressure when with 20 to go Leeds upped a gear and threw everything at us that they had.

But we held on, defended the line and did not panic when they got one back.

I think that's the best thing from tonight.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Tue May 21, 2013 12:29 am  

Dux wrote:

Why no Clough?

He played for Whitehaven yesterday didn't he?

Echoing all those praising Paul Wellens, thought he was very good for you guys tonight - I know he's copped a lot of flak of recent times, but he seems to really enjoy playing at Headingley. Can't remember him having many bad games against us when we've been at home over the years...

Well done on the win tonight!

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Tue May 21, 2013 6:09 am  

Albion wrote:

Game completely changed when Puletua (who was great) and Walmsley came on.

Wellens was fantastic, my MoM by a distance. Howarth also played well.

Wilkin was annoying with his penalties and his kicking game wasn't great, but he was kicking off slow PTBs so if was understandable. We looked better organised with him at #7.

Perry can go now, what's the point at all? Only doing one spell again? I'd rather have Clough in over him.

Nathan Ashe? Ffs, he touched the ball at most 3 times.

The game changed when we started to get penalties. We had no go forward and couldn't get out our 20 until we got a few pens. This gave us some field position and our confidence grew.

A win is a win and it was a very good win but we can't hide from the fact that we was very very poor in the early stages. The defense was shocking at times and we couldn't make 20m per set.

Good win tho and hope its the platform we need.

Re: Thoughts from tonight : Tue May 21, 2013 7:19 am  

Wello had his first good game in months, lets not get excited.
The best part is the team actually played some decent rugby and defended well for about 60 mins, next week should be interesting