Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:25 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

I thought Flannery had his quitest game in a Saints shirt in a very, very long time actually - you could hardly even tell he was on the field .

I know it was great, usually he cocks up so much I just blame everything on him. I think he has finally found his best position (on bondi beach working on his tan).

I was trying to think of why I was feeling a little happy at half time even though we were 22-0 down. Then it came to me, Flannery.

He is my Meli. Come to think of it what will happen when Meli retires and we lose a big game. Some people will be completely lost for a reason why.

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:45 pm  

Noel Cleal wrote:

Northampton_Saint wrote:

I thought Flannery had his quitest game in a Saints shirt in a very, very long time actually - you could hardly even tell he was on the field .

I know it was great, usually he cocks up so much I just blame everything on him. I think he has finally found his best position (on bondi beach working on his tan).

I was trying to think of why I was feeling a little happy at half time even though we were 22-0 down. Then it came to me, Flannery.

He is my Meli. Come to think of it what will happen when Meli retires and we lose a big game. Some people will be completely lost for a reason why.

Manu is a better player than flannery. But then we wouldn't have been anything like as leaky up front had flannery been in the side and I doubt the scoreline would have been as bad.

Just sayin!

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:47 pm  

Noel Cleal wrote:

I know it was great, usually he cocks up so much I just blame everything on him. I think he has finally found his best position (on bondi beach working on his tan).

I was trying to think of why I was feeling a little happy at half time even though we were 22-0 down. Then it came to me, Flannery.

He is my Meli. Come to think of it what will happen when Meli retires and we lose a big game. Some people will be completely lost for a reason why.

People will always find a new Meli.

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:29 pm  

As each season progresses Saints fans far and wide will find a scapegoat to blame; for this ill or that ......early last season against the run of the mill, it was Foster.Then Meli surfaced as the arch villain once more, and so the circle is again squared. Nothing changes and its only round 1, but should anyone remember........Never write off the SAINTS

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:44 pm  

Not a game to find scapegoats.
As every Saints fans on here knows your team was outplayed from 1-17.
Widnes is the type of game to get back a bit of form. The pack have to work harder and if they do then they have a good chance of running the game for the halves and backs to exploit.
Saints should win by 12+, if they don't then you'll have more to worry about than you do now.

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:49 pm  

Think you will be favourites but you only snatched it last year in the last play of the game. We've improved a lot since then, however you have strengthened your squad with Manu and turned. Should be a good game

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:10 pm  

Viva La Vikings!! wrote:

Think you will be favourites but you only snatched it last year in the last play of the game. We've improved a lot since then, however you have strengthened your squad with Manu and turned. Should be a good game

I hope and expect to see a fired up saints, fancy we'll win comfortably.

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:00 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

I think we read far too much into comments and press statements. Do people really want the coach to come on and lay into his players first game out?

He has to manage the squad for the season, not game to game. He has to go into training and get the best out of them. As shocking as that performance was, Brown can hardly call them a waste of space and expect to hold their respect for him for the next 3 years.

If my manager called me a waste of space no matter my performance I'd have issues with him from then on. It's a professional game and he has to act professionally. If it was 2 games from season end then he could call them what ever he felt like as he could get shut in 2 games.

Lets just see where we are come the Leeds game, before we all jump off the pier.

I agree. If he'd come out slating the players, what good would that do? What he really thinks will be said behind closed doors - as it should be.

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:04 am  

Viva La Vikings!! wrote:

Think you will be favourites but you only snatched it last year in the last play of the game. We've improved a lot since then, however you have strengthened your squad with Manu and turned. Should be a good game

Think we'll still be favourites, but it's one of them where we could either win by a small or large margin!

Re: Nothing better than a nice dose of reality : Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:19 pm  

If we struggle to a 1 or 2 pt win, or lose, then you should actually be able to hear the thud the extra weight landing on Brown's shoulders causes.