Re: Tommy makinson : Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:50 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

OK pete name 8cnetres in SL better than Meli and shenton and I'lllet you say they are just average. A top four centre is top class for me. Like I said there is a difference qwhen you start talking world class.

I don't care what other teams have, I only care about saints and IMO meli has done good job covering the centre but he's not a centre and never will be a real centre.

Shenton has been a let down to honest but had a good game Sunday and I expect him to have settled by next year.

Re: Tommy makinson : Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:06 pm  

St pete wrote:

Shenton has been a let down to honest but had a good game Sunday and I expect him to have settled by next year.

He got a lot of good ball on Sunday and not only that, he was clearly being used as an additional forward as he took the ball up a lot. He was excellent in defence. Meli, by contrast, was generally a lazy ahse who made little impact at all and at least one utterly dumb decision. Give me Wheeler any day of the week. His footwork alone would have bamboozled Wigan.

Re: Tommy makinson : Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:10 pm  

St pete wrote:

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Shenton has been a let down to honest but had a good game Sunday and I expect him to have settled by next year.

I wonder if the improvement was due to him getting more passes in his direction, he seemed to get a lot more ball than usual maybe a change in game plan.

Re: Tommy makinson : Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:40 pm  

vint wrote:

I wonder if the improvement was due to him getting more passes in his direction, he seemed to get a lot more ball than usual maybe a change in game plan.

I would say so, he was getting the ball a little earlier and in better space to break through half tackles. Played with a lot of enthusiasm.

Re: Tommy makinson : Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:44 pm  

St pete wrote:

I don't care what other teams have, I only care about saints and IMO meli has done good job covering the centre but he's not a centre and never will be a real centre.

You say Meli is not a centre, but he's been a hell of a lot better for us playing centre for a year than he has playing on the wing for three years.

Re: Tommy makinson : Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:19 am  

rammsteinbloke wrote:

You say Meli is not a centre, but he's been a hell of a lot better for us playing centre for a year than he has playing on the wing for three years.

Well said, IMO.Simmons saw it straight away that Francis was a liability on the wing.

Re: Tommy makinson : Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:30 am  

Anyway - back to the title thread I noticed on the C/W forum that both Makinson and Lomax both got their own dedicated thread.

Re: Tommy makinson : Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:35 am  

Agent Mulder wrote:

Anyway - back to the title thread I noticed on the C/W forum that both Makinson and Lomax both got their own dedicated thread.

Well, they both deserve the attention although I haven't yet read the threads and so I've no idea what's been said.

Think I'll go take a look ...

Re: Tommy makinson : Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:37 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Well, they both deserve the attention although I haven't yet read the threads and so I've no idea what's been said.

Think I'll go take a look ...

The Makinson one is worth a chuckle. BAN HIM!!!!

Re: Tommy makinson : Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:56 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

He got a lot of good ball on Sunday and not only that, he was clearly being used as an additional forward as he took the ball up a lot. He was excellent in defence. Meli, by contrast, was generally a lazy ahse who made little impact at all and at least one utterly dumb decision. Give me Wheeler any day of the week. His footwork alone would have bamboozled Wigan.

So when Meli's getting a lot of carries and Shenton's getting none it's because the balling is going left all the time, and when it's the other way round it's because Meli is lazy?