Sorry for moaning, but... : Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:59 am
Until Saints invest in an actual half back we do not have a hope of winning SL. We never replaced Long. Eastmond wasn't a scrum half either. If Tomkins had come through the ranks at Saints we'd be playing him at number 7 too.A scrum half doesn't have to be lightning fast, he doesn't have to be a line breaker. He needs to be clever, directing the team around the pitch, picking the right pass, the right kick. We're rudderless.
Lomax would be a real threat from fullback, and it's been incredibly unfair playing him at 7 were we are wrecking the lads confidence and stifling his development.
On top of all that we've got a coach who stated earlier in the week that talent is the least of his priorities. What he values his muscle. Yet last year we had Rush saying "We have a culture at St Helens like Barcelona and Ajax play football and we as a town and a club need to play how we play and the senior players have really took to that".
Maybe I'm just deluded, but I've been watching Saints since the 80's. I've seen great stuff and I've seen the bad stuff...but we always tried to play rugby league exactly how Rush describes it above.
Right, I've had my moan, apologies.