Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO!) : Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:43 pm  

Guts in spades. Not a bad player among them.

Can't ask for much more in terms of the necessities required to be a champion.

No disgrace in losing with no halves. Especially when you consider they only just staggered over the finish line with a fluke bounce and a kick through.

IIt's painful losing to such a pitiful Wigan team (by derby standards) but you can only take so many iinjuries to top players before you are dragged down to also-ran level.

Get the lads fit and we'll end them.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:55 pm  

Sorry but swift deserved the critisism on the Hull KR game last week as I said at the time..

bewareshadows wrote:

I'm truely shocked by the number of people willing to lay into this team at the first loss.

6 wins count for nothing but the 1 loss suddenly proves everything about how terrible we are.

All that loss proved was that we can't go unbeaten all season. Warrington also lost last night and they were one of the favourites with us to win SL.

Leeds beat Wigan last week and neither team looked especially dangerous.

Maybe just maybe the teams are a bit closer than people like to think.

Swift was aweful, would I drop him based on that? No!

I'm just glad the coaching staff seem a little more level headed, because if some people in here were in charge we'd be a bunch of surrender monkeys the minute things did not go 100% in our direction. It's sport, you lose occasionally. Get used to it.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:56 pm  

This week he was far better.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:05 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

This week he was far better.

Still seems to have lost a bit of speed, then again all our backs seem slower.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:09 pm  

He caught the high balls well, but still ran the ball into touch with the one chance he had. He's no winger.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:28 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

He caught the high balls well, but still ran the ball into touch with the one chance he had. He's no winger.

He was a bit ambitious there, but there was only a minute left so you can forgive him for going for broke. On the whole he was excellent, not just under the high ball but reading Wigan's edge attack too.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:49 pm  

Walmsley and LMS were outstanding, and the defense was superb from both teams, although both teams were almost unbelievably average in attack. Saints had the excuse of missing their first choice halves (although Hohaia has played in the halves at the highest level), but Wigan were dreadful with the ball.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Sat Apr 04, 2015 8:56 am  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

Walmsley and LMS were outstanding, and the defense was superb from both teams, although both teams were almost unbelievably average in attack. Saints had the excuse of missing their first choice halves (although Hohaia has played in the halves at the highest level), but Wigan were dreadful with the ball.

I don't think the is a better prop in super league at the moment than walmsley.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Sat Apr 04, 2015 11:30 am  

Thought Dawson had a decent game yesterday especially in defence, don,t remember him missing any tackles and was solid. He,s guaranteed a few more games in a settled position so hopefully that might improve his game.

Re: Proud of the lads (and Swift 1 critics... erm... ZERO! : Sat Apr 04, 2015 11:32 am  

Judder Man wrote:

Thought Dawson had a decent game yesterday especially in defence, don,t remember him missing any tackles and was solid. He,s guaranteed a few more games in a settled position so hopefully that might improve his game.

Funny enough, Ive just checked his stats and he had very solid game.

Jones missed 6 tackles!