Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:11 am  

St Helens coach Nathan Brown:

"Adam [Swift] and Tommy [Makinson] played terrific football. They were super at the end of last season and are carrying on from where they left off.

"With Jonny Lomax impressing at the back, they have been three of our most consistent players.

"But we were desperate for half-time because we kept dropping the ball. Rovers had all the field position and they have a lot of good forwards and confident half-backs.

"We gifted them too much in the first half but we were brilliant in the first 20 minutes of the second half.

"We came up with some nice kicks and we were hard to handle."

Quite a fair assessment.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:19 am  

I think we missed percival a bit too. Theres quite a few occasions were he would have probably scored instead of dropping the ball! Its good to have the luxury of not having to play players with just a knocks!

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 9:20 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

I think we missed percival a bit too. Theres quite a few occasions were he would have probably scored instead of dropping the ball! Its good to have the luxury of not having to play players with just a knocks!

I think Percival would have scored 2 tries that Wheeler failed to do. Would sooner see Wheeler creating options in second phase with Walshy.
Just looked at the stats Josh Jones only made 1 metre going forward yesterday. Wellens did OK on his cameo appearance 10 tackles, no missed tackles, 2 tackle busts and robbed of a try.
Front row impressive metres again, for the 4th time bossed the opposition over the 80 mins.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 9:35 am  

Judder Man wrote:

I think Percival would have scored 2 tries that Wheeler failed to do. Would sooner see Wheeler creating options in second phase with Walshy.
Just looked at the stats Josh Jones only made 1 metre going forward yesterday. Wellens did OK on his cameo appearance 10 tackles, no missed tackles, 2 tackle busts and robbed of a try.
Front row impressive metres again, for the 4th time bossed the opposition over the 80 mins.

I've been a bit dissapointed with Jones so far this season, his impact seems to be minimal

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:48 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

I've been a bit dissapointed with Jones so far this season, his impact seems to be minimal

Are you using the super league site? According to them, Roby averaged 127metres per carry!!! Whilst he's good I'm not sure he could pull that off

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:38 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

I've been a bit dissapointed with Jones so far this season, his impact seems to be minimal

Jones made 1m gain against hull KR


Another good stats from walmsley Roby and Amor.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:07 pm  

St pete wrote:

Jones made 1m gain against hull KR


Another good stats from walmsley Roby and Amor.

That's a nonsense. I can remember a couple of runs he made under their sticks in the first half that would have got him into double figures. I reckon there may well be a '0' missing after the 1.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:10 pm  

Another incorrect stat is that the website has Adam Swift making 0 tackles from 1 attempted tackle. I can remember a tackle he made, as I vividly remember the man sat behind me spitting on my ear with his praise of Adam.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:56 am  

Saddened! wrote:

That's a nonsense. I can remember a couple of runs he made under their sticks in the first half that would have got him into double figures. I reckon there may well be a '0' missing after the 1.

I thought so too, its all hard yards for Josh in the role he is playing this season.

Re: St Helens v Hull: game thread : Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:49 am  

I think Josh Jones as been hugely disappointing this season and im a massive fan of his. No impact at all with ball in hand and especially against Salford when the pass was on he kept hold of the ball instead. I tipped him for International honours this year but he looks miles off.