Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:37 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

bradford worked wonders on us!

And hull kr, hull, Catalan, hudds .....

Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:40 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

We're not, honestly we are just not, we're the luckiest team of the last few weeks but in form, we are certainly not.

I could argue that Saints were lucky to get so many knock on's from Wire tonight but would prefer to say as a team we forced them.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:45 pm  

Our loss to Leeds was one of those that could have gone either way, and we gained easy yards even when under the cosh which made us believe it was just one of those nights when someone had to lose, we learned nothing from it.

Last week v Wigan should have been the wake up call, we gained 2 points i thought we had no right to take.
Trouble is i think they just accepted the win and went out on the lash to celebrate and didn't take in their failings.

This week they have been embarrassed and i'd like to think TS will give them a serious going over this week.

Steven Soderbergh wrote:

Horatio Yed wrote:

We're not, honestly we are just not, we're the luckiest team of the last few weeks but in form, we are certainly not.

I could argue that Saints were lucky to get so many knock on's from Wire tonight but would prefer to say as a team we forced them.

You didn't though, we were on the Brainfart central to losersville tonight, very few errors were forced which is our main frustration.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:48 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

You didn't though, we were on the Brainfart central to losersville tonight, very few errors were forced which is our main frustration.

Saints' start to the game put Wire under an awful lot of pressure. Pressure they responded poorly to, panicking and trying to score from every play without building the required pressure on the line first.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:54 pm  

We're playing the same regardless of if we are winning or losing though Sad one, that's the problem, not just tonight since game one barring Hudds in which i think we were in single figures for offloads which isn't like us.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:54 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Saints' start to the game put Wire under an awful lot of pressure. Pressure they responded poorly to, panicking and trying to score from every play without building the required pressure on the line first.

As did Saints start to the game against Leeds Last week. On both fronts Stevo blamed lack of opposition's defence as opposed to Saint's cutting edge offence. I think we are seeing the start of a comprehensive game plan under Mike and Kieron,

Re: Rush & the King ! : Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:03 am  

Rush is clearly not a genius and by his own admission has not done anything startlingly radical in the last 2 weeks. However, I posit that he is probably extremely good at man-management.

Our squad has bags of ability in some places a lot of experience. I reckon Rush and KC stood in front of them (esp the senior players) and told it like it is - they weren't earning their money and had effectively got 2 good men sacked because of their poor performance. What are you going to do about it?

I also reckon they train them pretty hard! I can imagine KC being a pretty uncompromising taskmaster.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:24 am  

SaintsFan wrote:Don't be stupid. We lost by a maximum four points and had Puletua been more attentive we would have beaten Bradford. And that was without James Roby, who has made a massive impact on his return, and LMS and Gardner.

No1 Saint wrote:

Honestly you need to get a grip , did you even watch us against Bradford? It was one of the worst performances Ive seen a Saints team put out in a long long time. The performance against Hull was abysmal too. We look like a new team and it's not all down to Roby (despite you and and Sky morons thinking so)

Got to agree with Saints Fan about the bradford game - I thought it was much improved quite a bit over the Hull game where we were really awful.
Even against the Cats, we were pretty good for the first 60 mins and should have killed the game at the end. I didn't go to the Hudds game but from what I read and was told, we were very unlucky not to win that one and it was only brough's unbelievable good fortune that won it for them.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:50 am  

We had the ability to grunt out wins in those games that we lost, but grunting out wins was not very effective.

I went to the Huddersfield game and although it was close and so we could have won it, we offered very little attacking threat from any part of the field, we got lucky with the Lomax try had it been on TV it may not have been given.

Re: Rush & the King ! : Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:04 am  

saint at wire wrote:

Got to agree with Saints Fan about the bradford game - I thought it was much improved quite a bit over the Hull game where we were really awful.
Even against the Cats, we were pretty good for the first 60 mins and should have killed the game at the end. I didn't go to the Hudds game but from what I read and was told, we were very unlucky not to win that one and it was only brough's unbelievable good fortune that won it for them.

But we went from awful in the hull game to quite average in the Bradford game - not really the improvement that should be praised IMO.

At Huddersfield we may have been unlucky, but IMO they were just as bad as us in that game so it's hardly (again) something to point out etc.