Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:33 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Just one of many horrible performances to be fair. He's performed like that before, which presumably is why he is down the pecking order at Warrington.

And to think, we let Gaskell go to Salford. What a boost it would have been to our game last night just to have his kicking ability available to us. Brown is dumb.

He's been woeful. I thought it might have been that he needed time to bed in but he looks dreadful.

Has Tony Smith played a blinder by giving him to us ?

I'm being totally honest here, that was one of the worst performances I've ever seen from a saints scrumhalf! He's got very poor hands for a halfback. His passes are poor, its like a knockout when he takes the ball in and his kicking is average.

Send him back ASAP

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:41 am  

He certainly isn,t a bad weather player is he. Thought he was Ashe at first had to check the name on the back of his shirt offered zero in attack, but how much of it due to having no structure, tactics, game plans etc.
Why wasn,t Percival playing is he injured he would have been more of a threat on that slippy pitch, we could have put Jonesy at second row instead of Howarth.

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:54 am  

Judder Man wrote:

He certainly isn,t a bad weather player is he. Thought he was Ashe at first had to check the name on the back of his shirt offered zero in attack, but how much of it due to having no structure, tactics, game plans etc.
Why wasn,t Percival playing is he injured he would have been more of a threat on that slippy pitch, we could have put Jonesy at second row instead of Howarth.

He's got terrible hands for a halfback, like I said, its one of the worst performances I've seen by a saints scrumhalf.

I think Jones is not progressing how he should be due to him constantly moved about. He's centre one week then in second row the next and IMO its effecting his progression.

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:50 am  

Judder Man wrote:

Why wasn,t Percival playing is he injured he would have been more of a threat on that slippy pitch, we could have put Jonesy at second row instead of Howarth.

Percival played in the under 19s game.

The pitch wasn't slippy though. Only our players were slipping.

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:42 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Just one of many horrible performances to be fair. He's performed like that before, which presumably is why he is down the pecking order at Warrington.

And to think, we let Gaskell go to Salford. What a boost it would have been to our game last night just to have his kicking ability available to us. Brown is dumb.

Yeah I wished we'd have had Gaskell in the team putting in another horrible performance instead of him.

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:45 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Yeah I wished we'd have had Gaskell in the team putting in another horrible performance instead of him.

I don't think Gaskell could play that bad. Ive posted a few times on here that its the worst I've ever seen from a saints halfback and we've had some stinkers.

Don't think I've seen a scrumhalf with hands as bad as O'Brian. He spends most of the game getting up off the floor from being completey smashed!

Good goal kicker, awful player.

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:54 pm  

St pete wrote:

I don't think Gaskell could play that bad. Ive posted a few times on here that its the worst I've ever seen from a saints halfback and we've had some stinkers.

Don't think I've seen a scrumhalf with hands as bad as O'Brian. He spends most of the game getting up off the floor from being completey smashed!

Good goal kicker, awful player.

Yeah I did notice he did seem to get smashed a few times which is never good sign, his passing at times looked more like something you'd expect from a prop or something, inaccurate and slow.

The point I was making to SaintsFan though was more about this useless banging on about Gaskell. I dont know which Lee Gaskell she's been watching but the one who used to play for Saints has been terrible for 18 months and cant even get a run in the halves in the worst team in SL

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:57 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Yeah I did notice he did seem to get smashed a few times which is never good sign, his passing at times looked more like something you'd expect from a prop or something, inaccurate and slow.

Its a dead ball if he has to take it in, he just dies with the ball. He's a tough lad tho, he's had some hits on him.

I wonder if Tony Smith knew exactly what he was doing

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:58 pm  

St pete wrote:

Its a dead ball if he has to take it in, he just dies with the ball. He's a tough lad tho, he's had some hits on him.

I wonder if Tony Smith knew exactly what he was doing

Sometimes you do have to wonder lol .

Re: O'Brien : Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:15 pm  

I was actually pleased when the ball went to o Brien because he either dropped it or did something stupid with it