Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:37 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Doesn't matter who has the option. You just persuade him not to take it. If the club tells him he isn't wanted, he would go home.

Agreed. I think there's ways we could use Boof better, but we've got some serious ground to make up and a quota spot is too valuable to use on a man going through the motions.

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:42 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Today in itself isn't the end of the world, lots of payers missing, London sounded like they playe squire well, goal kicking was the difference on the board.

They scored a drop goal, so no, goal kicking wasn't the difference! (And they also kicked a penalty didn't they?)

IMO the difference was the discipline and the lacklustre behaviour of our senior players, bar Wello who even though he is a donkey was the one player following up on the wonderful Jones/Percival play which secured our final try.

As in 2011, our young players are doing us proud. However, unlike 2011 we don't have Jammer kicking the senior players up the backside, and that is the bit which is killing us, not the fact that we are missing players. With youngsters like Jones and Percival who both consistently make breaks, even against the big teams, the focus has to be on those letting the side down: players like Wilkin (getting banned) and LMS (giving away endless penalties and going into hiding going forward).

And then there also has to be a question mark over Brown because our discipline overall is shocking and clearly he isn't addressing it.

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:43 pm  

After getting over my initial despair and frustration. As weird as it sounds today wasn't so bad. We dominated the second half , and it was just lack of some magic from the halves that was missing. I am convinced that Lomax would have won that for us on his own. Onwards and upwards

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:43 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Agreed. I think there's ways we could use Boof better, but we've got some serious ground to make up and a quota spot is too valuable to use on a man going through the motions.

He should have been in the second row and we should have been exploiting his offload game, which is what he had a reputation for in the NRL.

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:46 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

To be fair to those on the pitch it sounds like they did okay. Josh Jones seemed to have a great game from the commentary and they made it sound like we were camped on their line for large parts of the game.

Not sure we can blame the injuries and suspensions for this one, as we have no decent half backs anyway.

The club is a joke at present and is reaping the consequences of a decade of lazy and unambitious recruitment. We will set all kinds of records this season, losing games we never have before, losing record numbers of games and in bigger streaks than we ever have before. We are now as bad as Bradford after their fall from grace and there could be years of this to come unless McManus leaves.

Sadly your right and being camped on the opposition line huffing and puffing is exactly what you get with no proper halfbacks

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:48 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Agreed. I think there's ways we could use Boof better, but we've got some serious ground to make up and a quota spot is too valuable to use on a man going through the motions.

He's average at best , we could recruit average from the championship if needed for a fraction of what he'll be costing us

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:55 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

isnip

That line you quoted was not meant to be taken as a statement by itself, but in the context of the whole post. My post was that we're essentially losing every week now and while there are some valid reasons why we're struglling, even when chances appear for us to scrape the win, such as being 10-0 up, the coin is still failing to land Saints side up. We can only look on the bright side for so long.

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:20 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

To be fair to those on the pitch it sounds like they did okay. Josh Jones seemed to have a great game from the commentary and they made it sound like we were camped on their line for large parts of the game.

Not sure we can blame the injuries and suspensions for this one, as we have no decent half backs anyway.

The club is a joke at present and is reaping the consequences of a decade of lazy and unambitious recruitment. We will set all kinds of records this season, losing games we never have before, losing record numbers of games and in bigger streaks than we ever have before. We are now as bad as Bradford after their fall from grace and there could be years of this to come unless McManus leaves.

Prat!

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:31 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

Prat!

I'm right.

Re: 19 man squad for London (A) : Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:32 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

Prat!

Apart from the McManus leaving bit I'm not sure what he's got wrong.