Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:10 pm  

Top performance from the team tonight, with many spakling performances. But a special mention should go to Lafranchi, who did loads of hard work and grafted for long minutes. He went a long way to lay the platform for the other players to show their skills. Mention also for Perry, who went well tonight.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:14 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Top performance from the team tonight, with many spakling performances. But a special mention should go to Lafranchi, who did loads of hard work and grafted for long minutes. He went a long way to lay the platform for the other players to show their skills. Mention also for Perry, who went well tonight.

He was outstanding tonight!

The whole pack player well....perry had his best game in saints shirt...sia was just sia again....roby was a machine but it was good to have some attack in the pack with TP back.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:16 pm  

He's been doing it all year

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:19 pm  

Albion wrote:

He's been doing it all year

He has indeed and some of us have commented on it at least many times on here!

All our forwards worked very hard tonight but the real test for them will come next week against Wigan.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:21 pm  

The pack have done that all year for me though. They have tackled well and pounded their way down the field. But with TP in the line up it just seams to lift everyone of them to do that bit extra.

The first 15mins was very similar to the Wigan game. All the territory and all the possesion and our backs could not do anything. Then TP comes on and suddenly Perry also starts to think about offloading, clough starts giving it to Bailey, and LMS is running at his best.

I don't get it. Maybe it's a psychic link but TP definately brings something to the forwards that changes our game.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:23 pm  

Personally i thought Perry was the pick of the forwards.

He really got stuck into Leeds, it was nice to see him rough the opposition up a bit in the tackle.

More of the same next week against the pies please

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:26 pm  

Ryan Bailey didn't want to know.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:28 pm  

Perry was better tonight. Perry has played well for us about twice, but those performances have been very good.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:31 pm  

Perry had a lot to prove.

But Laffranchi was all round better in my view. No, he didn't niggle at Leeds - and Perry risked giving away penalties by doing that - but he drove forward on every play, he offloaded beautifully, he defended extremely well and he never let up.

Re: Lafranchi : Mon May 21, 2012 9:56 pm  

Laffranchi is reminding me very much of Darren Britt, a no nonsense, workhorse of a prop, who gives 100% every week. He may be a second rower in disguise, but he has been superb for us this year.