Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:50 pm  

Wellens was one of the best in a white shirt tonight : FACT!

Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:51 pm  

Saint from Prestwich wrote:

Tonight showed that Wellens time as FB is over.I would go with Lomax there.

Clueless in attack ,with no kicking game near their line(not surprising with Eastmond at 7)

What game were you watching? Wellens saved you several times tonight.

Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:54 pm  

Teessidewire wrote:

What game were you watching? Wellens saved you several times tonight.

Plus he's playing with a rib injury.

Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:59 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

Did you expected him to win the game on his own...... yes he made a few mistakes, but he didn't play that badly..... he was your biggest threat all game..... we just defended him well.

I think you're using him as a scapegoat, which is the easy thing to do because he appears to be leaving.

Thats a fair point on Eastmond, as an individual performance he was quiet but not awful, all HBs have quiet games, the difference being that the off-the-ball organising, moving the team around through the forwards and building the drive and ideas that all top HBs provide was absolutly absent.

This can't be put down to individual performance, he may be 21 but hes an international at the end of the day, it has to be down to a lack of interest, a division of attention, something that ain't right in his head.

Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:59 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

very surprised at the lack of saints fans tonight.

I'm not - I went and as a season ticket holder I;ll be there all season but I know plenty fans who used to go all the time who just dont want to go to widnes. tbh i cant say I like it much but its only a year ...

Re: What A Joke!? : Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:06 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

I'm not - I went and as a season ticket holder I;ll be there all season but I know plenty fans who used to go all the time who just dont want to go to widnes. tbh i cant say I like it much but its only a year ...

It's tough for the saints fans who work late to get to Widnes. I know few lads who used to go straight from work but it's hard now as it's in Widnes.

Re: What A Joke!? : Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:08 am  

Its not hard to get to at all, i'm just not having that!
me and two mates finished work at 6 and managed to get home, get fed and get to widnes by 7, practice the words "wife, when i get in at 6 i want tea on the table and shirt ironed" its not hard

Re: What A Joke!? : Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:23 am  

dont know why any of you are complaining about your attack yh it wasnt amazin but our defense all but the last 6 minutes was top class and you couldnt get across the line because of it. dont bash yourselves just yet i think we just had the game we have been waiting for and you couldnt do anything about it. everyone has a bad game

Re: What A Joke!? : Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:17 am  

I agree on Wellens. For the past three years a few of us have been warning about the aging process and it has caught up with him. Yes he's still strong in the tackle but he is beyond average pace now and poses zero threat returning the ball. In the past he would usually beat the first tackler but because he is so slow now he is getting tackled quite easily. In the modern game we need a speedy guy at full back. It's too late for us to do something about it this year but we cannot afford to be in the same position next season.

Re: What A Joke!? : Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:25 am  

McClennan wrote:

I agree on Wellens. For the past three years a few of us have been warning about the aging process and it has caught up with him. Yes he's still strong in the tackle but he is beyond average pace now and poses zero threat returning the ball. In the past he would usually beat the first tackler but because he is so slow now he is getting tackled quite easily. In the modern game we need a speedy guy at full back. It's too late for us to do something about it this year but we cannot afford to be in the same position next season.

We would have been humiliated if it hadn't been for Wellens last night. He was sometimes our only goal line defence. Had our team put pressure on their kickers or even run lines or played dummy runners or something, Wello would not have had such a torrid time as he did last night. I'm very glad he was there.