Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:43 pm  

Attendance 2.5k

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:45 pm  

Who was our best player, sounds as though we have a good promising "young" full back scoring all those try,s

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:37 pm  

Match Report. Brown's reaction.

Match Report. Brown's reaction.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:58 pm  

Excellent performance by Sts by the sounds of it and they'll certainly take some beating this year with a return to Wembley or Old Trafford on the cards.


Just a little balance to be brought to the result and the match report, Wakefield fielded a strong line up but were missing more than just 2 players with 6 players from our 1st choice 17 being absent.
Kyle Wood, Kyle Amor, Oliver Wilkes, Danny Kirmond, Dean Collis & Vince Mellars all missing and then lost Tim Smith very early on who was later joined by Andy Raleigh.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:34 pm  

Got to say I thought Josh Perry had a very good game.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:35 pm  

Two Wheeled Saint wrote:

Got to say I thought Josh Perry had a very good game.

His contract is up at the end of this season isn't it?

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:36 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

His contract is up at the end of this season isn't it?

Still played well.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:48 pm  

In all fairness to Josh Perry, his first season was plagued with injuries and never really got going. He then had on operation in the off season which meant he missed pretty much all of pre season for his second. He then got another couple of knocks throughout the season and when he got a run of games together he was arguably our form forward, unfortunately his form dipped off come the business end of the season.

I'm actually excited to see what he can do with a full pre season under his belt and hopefully a good run of games this year. There is no doubting that when we signed him he was a top prop forward and if he can replicate that form now, given the stability in his pre season he will be a massive asset to us.

People all to easily jump on players backs without giving them a chance and looking at any mitigating circumstances which could lead to them being very unsettled. How you feel off the field is just as important, if not more so, than how you feel on the field for professional sportsmen and women.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:55 pm  

I've been impressed with Alex Walmsley in the two practice games.

Re: Wakefield Match Thread - St Helens 42 v 12 Wakefield FT : Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:03 pm  

Fantastic game of Rugby League today, enjoyed every minute of it. Defensively we were superb today, just like last week, and to conced just 12 points against two Super League sides is a decent stat. We were ruthless with ball in hand, and once again our forwards worked there socks off in attack and defence. Soliola was his usual self, and it was good to see TP back in the redvee aswell. Josh Perry deserves a mention too for his performance today, looks in top shape and made great yardige from first reciever. Joe Greenwood had another cracking game, and put it one cracking shot in the second half. Willie Manu had another cracking game, and his combination with Robes looks extremaly promsising. Lance looked confortable when he came on to play around the ruck at 9, and I hope to see him interchanging with Robes this season.

In attack we were clinical, and it seemed as though everytime we went down their end, we came away with points. We threw the ball around and were exciting to watch, and were prepare to do the hard stuff defensively and when coming out of our own half. Admittidly Wakefield were not great, but I was impreseed with our performance from start to finish.

Not the greatest of turnouts, and there we had enough room to be doing cartwheels in W3, but as I said, it was a cracking game, and a fitting tribute to a great lad. Hopefully we can carry out the same sort of performance into the Rochdal game enxt week, in what should be a great night.