Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:05 pm  

I just hope it was a bad day at the office. Sometimes you get them games and I hope it was on tonight.

I must say, I'm concerned about things I seen tonight. They destroyed us in every department.

I didnt like seeing the forwards doing the ball handling, we ain't the Canterbury Bulldogs. We lacked ideas just like last season. The forwards looked like some have gone a season to far. Halfbacks looked poor like season. The list could go on.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:06 pm  

Unacceptable that for a home opener with a new coach against his former team. To be out-enthused and out-played so easily makes this probably the worst home opening since newly promoted Doncaster turned us over in Bobbie Goulding's debut. It's the first game so I'm not writing off the season but if we don't improve our defence (as I was expecting under Brown) it won't matter what we do with the ball.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:10 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

When that's the best thing we can say about a match, you know something's gone pretty badly wrong.

This isn't just one man's fault, because that entire team tonight were unspeakably bad, but whoever thought signing Wllie Manu was a good idea should be taken out and shot. He's a poor man's David Solomona, who's far more likely to lose us a game with lost possession, missed tackles and stupid penalties, than he is to actually ever win us anything.

Just dreadful. Can I be the first to start a "sack the coach" thread ?

To be fair to Manu, he is an attacking player who in a good side will be a big asset, I've always rated him since he was at Cas, the players to really blame are the established ones Roby, Wilkin, Wellens, Meli etc, absolutely no sign from any of them that they have been St Helens players for years.
I said on our board that its far too early to write you off yet, but as bad as you were, Hudds were really very good.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:17 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Saddened will be ecstatic!

I live for days like this.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:19 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

:lol: I live for days like this.

We all can't wait for your latest appraisal of Wellens' performance...

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:21 pm  

Blobbynator wrote:

We all can't wait for your latest appraisal of Wellens' performance...

Lets be honest, he had a total shocker today.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:26 pm  

St pete wrote:

The forwards looked like some have gone a season to far.

That's because they have. But surely you saw that last season too? I did. It was only Jammer who kept the forwards honest. Without aggressive forwards who are willing to tackle then the halves don't have a fighting chance, especially halves who weren't allowed to play together last season.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:28 pm  

St pete wrote:

Lets be honest, he had a total shocker today.

He did. He had some of those last season too. This really should be his last season. And Meli's. And Perry's. And TP's. And Wilkin's too on the basis of tonight's performance! To be fighting while there is almost a try being scored is just beyond ridiculous.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:38 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

He did. He had some of those last season too. This really should be his last season. And Meli's. And Perry's. And TP's. And Wilkin's too on the basis of tonight's performance! To be fighting while there is almost a try being scored is just beyond ridiculous.

Add Laffranchi to tha list as well.

To be fair, the pack did ok last year until we come up against a big physical pack.

I question if TP wants to play anymore but seems happy to take his salary. Hes to lazy for me and looks like he couldn't care less.

Perry (see my previous posts)

Wilkin, he's been rubbish for years but could get away with it playing in a great team but now we see the real wilkin.

Re: Huddersfield match thread : Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:53 pm  

FLYINGPROP wrote:

Don't wanna say I told you so but "I told you so" don't think Saints fans realised what we had to put up with playing guys like Faiumu, Ferguson and Gilmour at prop, Anderson could see straight away we were getting bullied cos 2 lightweight.

Not gonna gloat about the result but better than I feared by about 40 points!!

Early days and you won't play that bad again however don't be suprises to see Manu on wing next week and Wellens at stand off with Hohia at prop.

Said before your welcome to Brown cos he ain't the world class coach everyone keep telling me he is.

No you got it wrong, he will move Lomax to prop Roby to full back, Hohia to wing and Meli at hooker. It`s all good stuff from Nathan, he likes to mix and match, as we found to our cost.