Re: Saints v cas news? : Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:45 pm  

Zeus The Saint wrote:

Hand is not good enough to play SL level. Richards and Thompson both have the potential to go very far in our game. probably be playing NRL within 3 years.

Richards is still just 17 years old and was playing prop! Fantastic effort.

None of them are good enough to play at SL level yet. However they all show promise and hopefully will push on in the years ahead and become decent players.

Truth be told we will be lucky if just one of them becomes a good SL standard player. Fingers crossed all three of them develop into top class players.

Re: Saints v cas news? : Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:00 am  

Second half we actually got into Chase and didn't just let him run riot - something he did in the first half. That was the difference. For Chase's dominance in the game, I was surprised that we were only 4 behind at half time. Have to credit Jon Wilkin who looks to be the only player we have close to a 'leader' in the team. He was the only player who was really vocal when we were conceding tries. He then went into dummy half and took us around the park really well when we were struggling at half time.

Clarke looked brilliant yet again for them, yet he hardly got any minutes? He looks like a young Roby with how he gets out of dummy half and uses his speed and strength to make a load of yards. That Huby is good too and you could see the difference when he went on.

I think there are a few areas that show why Cas are so low down the table. If Cas let Chase go to Salford then they will be in deep trouble and that could be crucial considering that two teams will probably be relegated from the league next season.

Re: Saints v cas news? : Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:49 pm  

Good point but when you consider relegation do you think it is fair that in principle Wire Widnes Salford Saints and a few others may be paying loans back for new stadia or ground improvements which they were told they HAD to do or ship out. Yet the two clubs who do nothing and so should have more dispensable income to keep the likes of Chase and Smith are not just relegated on this particular round of change. I feel Salford or Widnes in particular would have got the boot by red hall if the non-conformity had happened in Lancashire.

Re: Saints v cas news? : Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:14 pm  

agree with Loz's post on the previous page entirely.

Was a competitive game and the scoreline flattered saints, but that's not a comment to do a dis-service to your performance in the 2nd half.

I think 34-24 would've been fairer than 40-24

Re: Saints v cas news? : Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:11 pm  

Some of the dedicated trolls on this site have become so predictably boring they are pathetic. What used to sometimes make me smile, now makes me grimace.