Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:45 am  

Saddened! wrote:

It's like the Wello situation. Just because someone did something great for the club, something truly noteworthy in the club's entire history, it shouldn't mean that gives them the entitlement to just sit there and live off that forever.

I'm not suggesting we stage a blobby-led siege on the Directors box brandishing AK47s, but if McManus isn't interested in winning trophies he should pass the baton. We're apparently coming to a stage where we'll stop the horrendous losses, seems a perfect time to sell up to me. Sell it to someone who wants to deliver a successful sporting side with a stable business, not just a successful business like McManus does.

We're at what 7 years without a major trophy now? 10 will pass soon and we'll be back into the very dark days where trophies were out of reach. This current side won't win any major trophies (Excluding the cap here) under Brown. It doesn't matter who we sign, it won't happen. McManus won't sack him though, he'll wait till he leaves or just not renew his deal. The whole club just needs to remember what it once stood for and what it once tried to achieve. It needs to get some passion back. Get a coach who fist pumps and swears at people and wears cool shades even in the dark.

it might not be so gloomy. We went through a very similar patch. Loss of all our good players at once, some very poor coaches and signings then bam, a lot of the stuff going on behind the scenes that we dont know about comes together and it seems to have worked and keeps working. Saints will come good. Look at how smashed you are this season and some poor signings yet are still up there.

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:18 am  

I'm amazed Saints are even in contention, lost two most dangerous players in Walsh and Lomax and still competitive. Got avoid young core in Lomax, Makinson, Percival, Turner, Swift etc. I think you need to replace Hohaia, awful player. If you had Pryce or an Eastmond alongside Walsh you'd be scary.

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:36 am  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

If you've run up towards a kicker, and the ball hits you from the kick, then it doesn't matter where it hits you or if you've turned your back, it's deemed as playing at the ball, because your purpose in legging it towards the kicker was to block the kick, which you've done !

Not true at all Roy. Ball played the man.

In any case it makes up for the forward pass for saints second

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:44 am  

Code13 wrote:

Not true at all Roy. Ball played the man.

In any case it makes up for the forward pass for saints second

I wonder what happens if you compile every poor decision. Wonder how many each team got and whether we deserved a correct call then??

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:54 am  

Doesn't matter as offside was the right call anyway

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:26 am  

Code13 wrote:

Doesn't matter as offside was the right call anyway

If your a blind halfwit with no idea on the rules , you'd be correct. It was a poor call at a vital moment of the game that just sums up the terrible quality of refs we have. If that prat Silverdud had just let play go LMS would likely have scored and the Video ref would have had all night to look at it. Alas he chose to make the ref the major talking point in a big game again rather than the Rugby it's self. He should be punished for his mistake but of course he wont be.

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:50 am  

Code13 wrote:

In any case it makes up for the forward pass for saints second

I thought that made up for your first try where the player dropped the ball and didn't ground it.

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:13 am  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

If you've run up towards a kicker, and the ball hits you from the kick, then it doesn't matter where it hits you or if you've turned your back, it's deemed as playing at the ball, because your purpose in legging it towards the kicker was to block the kick, which you've done !

Really? Brough has given two players concussion this year when the ball he's kicked has hit players rushing towards him in the face- the ref didn't class eitherof those as a charge down.... Or do you think he should have?

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:15 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

If your a blind halfwit with no idea on the rules , you'd be correct. It was a poor call at a vital moment of the game that just sums up the terrible quality of refs we have. If that prat Silverdud had just let play go LMS would likely have scored and the Video ref would have had all night to look at it. Alas he chose to make the ref the major talking point in a big game again rather than the Rugby it's self. He should be punished for his mistake but of course he wont be.

IF you are correct, makes up for Bentham's decision over Danny Brough's drop goal in the cup.

Re: So that's it then. : Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:20 am  

IF - everyone could go on and on, remember as a real youngster Murp scoring in the corner in a night game at Knowsley Road near the score board, someone shouted never a try, Murphy just shouted back look in the paper tomorrow!

One of Saints tries did look a forward pass, so do they all balance themselves out! last night is Over!