Re: Josh Jones : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:34 pm  

I'm getting nowhere with saintsfan so I'm off for a wee and then bed.

Re: Josh Jones : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:37 pm  

St pete wrote:

I'm getting nowhere with saintsfan so I'm off for a wee and then bed.

post of the decade!

Re: Josh Jones : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:38 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Hardly. It was dumb to play him in the first place! They were just correcting their mistake before it got out of hand.

Pathetic. And before you ask I have a Law degree from Leeds University.

Re: Josh Jones : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:39 pm  

Anyway, Josh Jones.....

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:01 am  

Surely playing Josh Jones worked. Or was it my imagination that the score was 20-0 at one point.

How it can be called a risk that did not pay off is beyond my limited understanding. Another great win from the texts I've got and these are from people who are not keyboard warriors or people who wanted Royce out.

I'll go with the opinion that it was another great win rather than this feeble battle of some post-Royce justification blame project.

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:53 am  

Seemed that there was always a problem with Wheeler and Jones was always going to play.

For me it was a great decision to play him (as the risk paid off really) he did go for Hodgson's dummy, but they had a man over so it's understandable for him to have taken it so easily - although I have seen experienced players take them before!

To take him off when they did was brilliant coaching, it wasn't rectifying a mistake (as alluded to above ) but it was reacting to what was happening at the time in a period of Warrington dominance.

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:24 am  

SaintsFan: The players didnt agree with Royce's style of play and monotonous out the back predictive style of play he enforced. I have it on good authority senior players asked for more licence to play in a less structured way and one senior player in particular shot down. LMS made reference on interview last night to enjoying rugby again & been given the scope to play and the squad have responded. We were modelled on West Tigers style of play which didnt suit us & was becoming predictable...we never looked like scoring at times.
Longy was critical & voice his opinions just before the sacking...and thank god, nice bloke but Royce was turning the likes of Gaskell & Lomax into one trick robots.
Criticise the players all you like but that clowns pig headedness cost him hid job, the change of style has brought a change in attitude but in any job you need to be enjoying it. I know i was bored senseless at times this year.

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:30 am  

theres only one stan wall wrote:

SaintsFan: The players didnt agree with Royce's style of play and monotonous out the back predictive style of play he enforced. I have it on good authority senior players asked for more licence to play in a less structured way and one senior player in particular shot down. LMS made reference on interview last night to enjoying rugby again & been given the scope to play and the squad have responded. We were modelled on West Tigers style of play which didnt suit us & was becoming predictable...we never looked like scoring at times.
Longy was critical & voice his opinions just before the sacking...and thank god, nice bloke but Royce was turning the likes of Gaskell & Lomax into one trick robots.
Criticise the players all you like but that clowns pig headedness cost him hid job, the change of style has brought a change in attitude but in any job you need to be enjoying it. I know i was bored senseless at times this year.

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:58 am  

theres only one stan wall wrote:

SaintsFan: The players didnt agree with Royce's style of play and monotonous out the back predictive style of play he enforced. I have it on good authority senior players asked for more licence to play in a less structured way and one senior player in particular shot down. LMS made reference on interview last night to enjoying rugby again & been given the scope to play and the squad have responded. We were modelled on West Tigers style of play which didnt suit us & was becoming predictable...we never looked like scoring at times.
Longy was critical & voice his opinions just before the sacking...and thank god, nice bloke but Royce was turning the likes of Gaskell & Lomax into one trick robots.
Criticise the players all you like but that clowns pig headedness cost him hid job, the change of style has brought a change in attitude but in any job you need to be enjoying it. I know i was bored senseless at times this year.

I've been saying this for long time but nobody would listen because the grand Final appearance papered over the cracks.

Re: Josh Jones : Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:43 am  

theres only one stan wall wrote:

SaintsFan: The players didnt agree with Royce's style of play and monotonous out the back predictive style of play he enforced.

So that gives the players licence to refuse to perform? You are a supporter of player power? I'm not. What's going to happen when our next coach comes in - assuming we can find one who wants to join a club that sacks their coaching staff after seven games (two of which they won) - and he decides to make changes? Because that will happen. It always does.