Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:11 pm  

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:21 pm  

The Potter knockers will now start to feel a little trickle of sweat on their brow, wondering if their actions were right, or if its lead to Saints signing a dud coach.

Wigan await. !!!!!!GULP!!!!!

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:30 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

The Potter knockers will now start to feel a little trickle of sweat on their brow, wondering if their actions were right, or if its lead to Saints signing a dud coach.

Not at all.

I think with all those changes he made, with all that whistleblowing in the first half and with a lot of focus on Gary Wheeler, Simmons and possibly Hudds' coach had some specific things in mind before today's match.

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:32 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Not at all.

I think with all those changes he made, with all that whistleblowing in the first half and with a lot of focus on Gary Wheeler, Simmons and possibly Hudds' coach had some specific things in mind before today's match.

Why was the alot of focus on wheeler?

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:36 pm  

St pete wrote:

Why was the alot of focus on wheeler?

Well, that's a good question. Maybe one of the aims Royce had in this match was to establish whether Wheeler should take the other centre position as a permanent fixture. In the first half, no matter what was going on at the other side of the pitch, the ball invariably came to Wheeler's side of the pitch. Then Wheeler had a spell had halfback. Then he scored a cracking try after a move from the scrum that he was integral to and which left Hudds utterly bewildered.

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:22 pm  

what was your team like today? strong team or could it have been stronger??

Re: Royce out : Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:24 pm  

maltesefalcon wrote:

what was your team like today? strong team or could it have been stronger??

The strongest team we have ... in patches. Simmons made a load of changes, especially to the halves. But also to the wings. And as I've said, he seemed to focus a lot on Wheeler.

Re: Royce out : Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:06 am  

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2978 Last paragraph, a certain pie muncher will enjoy reading that.

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2978 Last paragraph, a certain pie muncher will enjoy reading that.

Re: Royce out : Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:10 am  

Interesting words from Royce: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2978 Reckons Wheeler has found his position in the centres, and is critical of the move to speed up the play the ball.

Interesting words from Royce: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2978 Reckons Wheeler has found his position in the centres, and is critical of the move to speed up the play the ball.

Re: Royce out : Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:46 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Not at all.

I think with all those changes he made, with all that whistleblowing in the first half and with a lot of focus on Gary Wheeler, Simmons and possibly Hudds' coach had some specific things in mind before today's match.

That is absolutely what you would have said had Potter been in charge of the match I'm sure.

It would be "this was our last chance to get a settled team before Wigan, he's clueless".

Hudds have had 4 friendlies to our 2 (not sure how strong a team they've put out) and they treated the match as a proper warm up for SL rather than still trying out positions and chopping and changing. I'm certainly not going to get too disheartened.

As for Royce "discovering" Wheeler is the solution at left centre, I could have told him that 18 months ago.