Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:40 pm  

What a nightmare for Walsh last night. Nothing went right and some of his passes were never on. At one stage I expected him to be taken of and I think he would have been if Wilkin had been on the field. Burns' defence and enthusiasm gets the shirt for me but his creativity is to say the least below average. When will we again see a saints side with halfbacks.

Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:12 pm  

redex113 wrote:

What a nightmare for Walsh last night. Nothing went right and some of his passes were never on. At one stage I expected him to be taken of and I think he would have been if Wilkin had been on the field. Burns' defence and enthusiasm gets the shirt for me but his creativity is to say the least below average. When will we again see a saints side with halfbacks.

We need them to perform as a proper partnership come semi final time, the more they play together the better the chance of there definitive roles. Burns is OK his competitive streak is an 80 min one which set up that last winning play, Walsh is a bit lost, his timing and decision making is is all over the shop, he's 4 games in so he should be getting game awareness. I'm sure its just temporary, see how he goes next week.

Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:34 pm  

We are so one dimensional when it comes to attack. Did Quinlan touch the ball in an attacking move from the HBs?

Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:56 pm  

Yet we still beat the wire, come on give it a few days before you moan

Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:02 pm  

Albion wrote:

We are so one dimensional when it comes to attack. Did Quinlan touch the ball in an attacking move from the HBs?

Couple of times from Burns especially on the last play setting up Quinny for the break, can't recall anything from Walshy though.

Re: 6 and 7 : Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:16 pm  

Albion wrote:

We are so one dimensional when it comes to attack. Did Quinlan touch the ball in an attacking move from the HBs?

Quinlan looks lost when we have the ball. He's basically inviasble until someone makes a break. I think the fact he's not played first grade this year and he won't know our players or our plays will take time to fit in.

He's took some great high kicks and his support play is top class but he's pretty awful at running the ball back on his kick returns.

Re: 6 and 7 : Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:07 pm  

I thought Burns played well on Thursday. His set up for Quinlan's break at the end was top class.
Even with Walsh, he had a bit of a nightmare but at least he's starting to get the confidence in his leg to start taking on the line again. I'm confident the partnership will come good. Whether that's this year or next, I'm not sure. But when it blossoms it will be beautiful!

Re: 6 and 7 : Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:05 pm  

The Reaper wrote:

I thought Burns played well on Thursday. His set up for Quinlan's break at the end was top class.
Even with Walsh, he had a bit of a nightmare but at least he's starting to get the confidence in his leg to start taking on the line again. I'm confident the partnership will come good. Whether that's this year or next, I'm not sure. But when it blossoms it will be beautiful!

I think I have heard that somewhere before, or words to that effect..

Re: 6 and 7 : Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:22 am  

Mugwump wrote:

Burns WAS a good player in his first season at KR. Even the most one-eyed Robin admits this.

He then went down injured and has never really been the same since. Whether the injury robbed him of what pace he had or his legs just wore out naturally - I really don't know. My guess is that Saints figured Burns just needed time to get over his injury without knowing his legs were permanently shot. It's a common mistake - but one which you really should pick up either through your scouts or during the fitness test prior to signing.

Burns was a very good player at KR for the majority of his stint, he could create things from nothing and was regularly putting in MoM performances, ironically his best performances were probably against Saints. His worst performances were after it was announced he was leaving, that maybe coincided with a big dip in team performances but Burns took the brunt og criticism.

His downside was his manner on the pitch, enthusiastic yes but he pilloried younger players for mistakes (even his own) and gave off the opinion of a disjointed camp. Rumour has it Chester wasn't sad to see him go. Not sure if that side of Travis has shown itself at Saints.

Either way, your lot don't seem to be doing too badly and we got ourselves a few quid and a couple of halves that if we get them on the pitch are (in our opinion) a lot better than we had so we all move on.

Re: 6 and 7 : Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:45 am  

barham red wrote:

Burns was a very good player at KR for the majority of his stint, he could create things from nothing and was regularly putting in MoM performances, ironically his best performances were probably against Saints. His worst performances were after it was announced he was leaving, that maybe coincided with a big dip in team performances but Burns took the brunt og criticism.

His downside was his manner on the pitch, enthusiastic yes but he pilloried younger players for mistakes (even his own) and gave off the opinion of a disjointed camp. Rumour has it Chester wasn't sad to see him go. Not sure if that side of Travis has shown itself at Saints.

Either way, your lot don't seem to be doing too badly and we got ourselves a few quid and a couple of halves that if we get them on the pitch are (in our opinion) a lot better than we had so we all move on.

If anything Burns has been the leader on the field this season. Very vocal, ultra committed.