Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:56 am  

Saddened! wrote:

13 - Flannery 5/10 The usual. Average and ordinary.

Not what you want from a big money import.

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:15 am  

Saddened! wrote:

No, he refused to play because he doesn't like cats.

you're wrong there mate cos' he played with Adam MOGG at Raiders in the early 2000s

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:56 am  

Why don't we just have a thread titled "SADDENED: LOOK AT ME! I'M WAVING MY HANDS ABOUT! YOU MUST NOTICE ME! I DEMAND TO BE NOTICED!!" and call it a day?

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:51 am  

Saddened! wrote:

No, he refused to play because he doesn't like cats.

Sad One, you are funny. You make me laugh

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:47 am  

You can't slag of Gaskell,its ridiculous to do so.
He had a bad kick straight into touch and a pass into the stand, but created alot and looked more a threat with the ball. Not a perfect performance, but a good one for a young guy playing 1/2back in one of his first few games without much support from his partner.

Saddened has just gone over board because for once one of his match predictions almost came true.

Our defence seems lax. The oppo seem to be able to get too easy yards up the middle, even without particulary quick ptbs. Our attack seems too one up and one dimensional.

Quins gave ABSOLUTELY nothing away in terms of penalties and turnovers. Whereas, when something goes our way, like a penalty not finding touch, Meli catches it and manages to run into touch on the return!?

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:21 am  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

Looks like your youth policy is working with the likes of:

Bridge
Riley
Blythe
Atkins
Evans
Myler
Harrison
Grix
Mitchell
McCarthy

Despite the fact that many of those players were signed from other clubs - Myler, Bridge, Atkins etc. The rest are pretty average anyway (with the possible exception of Evans, who has been overhyped by Sky after one half decent performance).

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:36 am  

Exeter Rhino wrote:

Despite the fact that many of those players were signed from other clubs - Myler, Bridge, Atkins etc. The rest are pretty average anyway (with the possible exception of Evans, who has been overhyped by Sky after one half decent performance).

You sound bitter

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:52 am  

Mugwump wrote:

Why don't we just have a thread titled "SADDENED: LOOK AT ME! I'M WAVING MY HANDS ABOUT! YOU MUST NOTICE ME! I DEMAND TO BE NOTICED!!" and call it a day?

Bit harsh. Saddened is actually one of the more intelligent Saints supporters on this website. Not that that's saying much necessarily!

Actually and being serious for a moment I do think there's a bit too much pessimism here, Saints aren't THAT bad. This still looks to me like a transitional era rather than the kind of desperate slump Wigan suffered in the mid-noughties. You'll have a season or so in the doldrums but will recover once you've cleared out the old timers like Wellens and some of the players who simply aren't good enough to wear a Saints shirt. Assuming of course that you've got the right leadership at the club?

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:14 am  

Tonight:
1 - Wellens 3/10 Like public transport. Late, slow and stunk. He's not even Mr Reliable anymore

1 - Laboured return by Wellens +1.5 metres


I'm not a Saints fan and you guys obviously see him play a lot more than me but maybe you should give Wellens a bit of slack. He's playing with damaged ribs

Re: Saddened! right again - Quins post mortem : Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:16 am  

Mugwump wrote:

Why don't we just have a thread titled "SADDENED: LOOK AT ME! I'M WAVING MY HANDS ABOUT! YOU MUST NOTICE ME! I DEMAND TO BE NOTICED!!" and call it a day?

I notice you don't argue with any of the points I made. There is no sensationalism in there, no silly 'we're terrible and going to finish bottom' predictions.

The team isn't playing in a manner that will enable them to win games. The one out nature of so many of our sets is so firmly anti-Saints and so behind what the progressive sides in Super League like Quins, Huddersfield, Warrington and Wigan are doing. They put the ball through hands, we trundle.

My most controversial point is about Gaskell. He gets involved, tries things. But I just think his introduction into the halves should be when Leon Pryce is with him to take some of the pressure off him. I think this spell in the team could do as much damage to Gaskell's confidence as it will benefit him in experience.