Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 11:01 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Turner did everything asked of him - granted not much, but hardly a performance I'd call him out for - he kept wardle quiet which we haven't done for a while. Lms was good without being great, still room for improvement. Walker had a poor first stint, and I was prepared to start writing him off, but was poking his nose through in his second stint, and generally did alright.

It's strange how we all view the match differently.

I had Walker, Turner and LMS as our worst players. Turner in particular had quite a few brain farts and at times looked frightened to back himself.

My top 3 were Roby, Mose and Wello with Wilkin for an honourable mention. Greenwood impressed as well and contrary to other comments I thought Flanagan played well.

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 11:18 am  

saint at wire wrote:

It's strange how we all view the match differently.

I had Walker, Turner and LMS as our worst players. Turner in particular had quite a few brain farts and at times looked frightened to back himself.

My top 3 were Roby, Mose and Wello with Wilkin for an honourable mention. Greenwood impressed as well and contrary to other comments I thought Flanagan played well.

Roby, Mose, wello and Walsh were all immense for their contributions (in all it's forms) looking up the stats this morning, walker was our strongest youngster, averaging 7 metres a carry, compared to 5.7 for greenwood, 5.5 for Richards and 4.5 for Thompson. I agree I think he's the most limited potential wise, but he had a good game yesterday, after a shaky start.

I retract my statement on lms after seeing his stats, but turner was strong in defence (19 tackles made to 1 miss) he just needs to see the ball more - 1 carry every 10 minutes isn't enough. We didn't attack his way all night, so he could of gone looking for the ball. But like I say, it's hardly something to call him out for (unlike his constant throwing the pass to no one vs Warrington!)

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 11:43 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I retract my statement on lms after seeing his stats, but turner was strong in defence (19 tackles made to 1 miss) he just needs to see the ball more - 1 carry every 10 minutes isn't enough. We didn't attack his way all night, so he could of gone looking for the ball. But like I say, it's hardly something to call him out for (unlike his constant throwing the pass to no one vs Warrington!)

His performance against Warrington may well be why we didn't attack his way all night.

I was disappointed by that but only for a silly reason. Makinson is now only one point ahead of the next in line in the top try scorer league and I want him to win!

So Saints, get sending that ball to T Mak!

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 12:52 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

Maybe, maybe not

tbh I think the big difference last night was the attitude and commitment shown by the players. I still wasnt really impressed with LMS and I think Wheeler is wasted in the centre's rather than in his natural position of 6.

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 4:37 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

His performance against Warrington may well be why we didn't attack his way all night.

I was disappointed by that but only for a silly reason. Makinson is now only one point ahead of the next in line in the top try scorer league and I want him to win!

So Saints, get sending that ball to T Mak!

I must confess, whilst not coming into consideration for my judgement on turners performance, I agree wholeheartedly about getting T Mak top try scorer - I care an undue amount about it!

When was the last time we were in with a shout for it?

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 6:25 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I must confess, whilst not coming into consideration for my judgement on turners performance, I agree wholeheartedly about getting T Mak top try scorer - I care an undue amount about it!

When was the last time we were in with a shout for it?

God knows! Certainly not since I've been following Saints (from 2007).

Escare is now joint top with T Mak. I think we should start a campaign! T Mak for Top!

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 7:48 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I must confess, whilst not coming into consideration for my judgement on turners performance, I agree wholeheartedly about getting T Mak top try scorer - I care an undue amount about it!

When was the last time we were in with a shout for it?

The days of sully, Albert and a young Ade Gardner was there or there abouts.

Re: Teams for tonight : Sat May 24, 2014 7:50 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

God knows! Certainly not since I've been following Saints (from 2007).

Escare is now joint top with T Mak. I think we should start a campaign! T Mak for Top!

So you've brought us our bad luck then

Re: Teams for tonight : Sun May 25, 2014 12:47 am  

St pete wrote:

The days of sully, Albert and a young Ade Gardner was there or there abouts.

Remember when Danny Arnold was scoring for fun? That just showed how classy our centres were at the time that he notched so many tries. Stewart got a few too.

Re: Teams for tonight : Sun May 25, 2014 12:51 am  

St pete wrote:

The days of sully, Albert and a young Ade Gardner was there or there abouts.

I decided to look at the stats, as it turns out, it was not all that long ago, with Gardner topping the 2008 charts with 25! Which is also our top tally for a single player since 2003 (the earliest the SL website stats to back, it's too late in the day to dig deeper) - held jointly by Gardner (2008) and albert (2005)

... I still want T Mak to push on and beat that tally