Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 1:14 am  

Decent film isn't it?

On a serious note, I don't want to be negative about Saints, especially after 3 straight wins but now that Swifty is injured (Anyone know how bad it is?), I'm really concerned about our lack of speed throughout our team. I think it's been an issue for quite a fair while now but I don't see it getting brought up much. Is this why KC is so insistent on 'winning the arm wrestle' and grinding our way into their 20, because he knows we don't have the legs to go all the way up the pitch? McDonnell's not a slouch, Makinson's alright, Dawson's never gonna go full length. I wouldn't put money on Turner, Peyroux and Walsh either...have we got any whippets in the reserves we can bring through?

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 1:19 am  

Twentyman wrote:

Decent film isn't it?

On a serious note, I don't want to be negative about Saints, especially after 3 straight wins but now that Swifty is injured (Anyone know how bad it is?), I'm really concerned about our lack of speed throughout our team. I think it's been an issue for quite a fair while now but I don't see it getting brought up much. Is this why KC is so insistent on 'winning the arm wrestle' and grinding our way into their 20, because he knows we don't have the legs to go all the way up the pitch? McDonnell's not a slouch, Makinson's alright, Dawson's never gonna go full length. I wouldn't put money on Turner, Peyroux and Walsh either...have we got any whippets in the reserves we can bring through?

Wellington and Grace are both fast, but probably not ready yet.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:19 pm  

I heard this Wellington kids the cheese,got pace to burn looking pretty melifluous to the keen observer.Chuck the kid a ticket to some open grass.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:23 pm  

Twentyman wrote:

Decent film isn't it?

On a serious note, I don't want to be negative about Saints, especially after 3 straight wins but now that Swifty is injured (Anyone know how bad it is?), I'm really concerned about our lack of speed throughout our team. I think it's been an issue for quite a fair while now but I don't see it getting brought up much. Is this why KC is so insistent on 'winning the arm wrestle' and grinding our way into their 20, because he knows we don't have the legs to go all the way up the pitch? McDonnell's not a slouch, Makinson's alright, Dawson's never gonna go full length. I wouldn't put money on Turner, Peyroux and Walsh either...have we got any whippets in the reserves we can bring through?

Remember how deceptivley gazelle like Shane Cooper was?Cooperman could do the 100 in 33 seconds I believe

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:32 pm  

rafsanjhani wrote:

Remember how deceptivley gazelle like Shane Cooper was?Cooperman could do the 100 in 33 seconds I believe

Haha, nah that's the wrong way round mate, it was 33 metres in 100 seconds with Cooper.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:27 pm  

Twentyman wrote:

Haha, nah that's the wrong way round mate, it was 33 metres in 100 seconds with Cooper.

Haha, nah that wrong as well mate, he would go 33 metres sidewards then 33 metres sidewards back to the same spot. He would offload the ball though when he eventually found a runner, all done within 100 seconds.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:50 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Haha, nah that wrong as well mate, he would go 33 metres sidewards then 33 metres sidewards back to the same spot. He would offload the ball though when he eventually found a runner, all done within 100 seconds.

He was that slow they could time him with a calendar.

He was class though, was a favourite of mine when I was a kid.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:41 pm  

The great thing about Cooper was that everyone else would slow down to his speed when he had the ball. It didn't seem to matter how slowly he did something - he would still have time to do it.

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:26 pm  

Dux wrote:

The great thing about Cooper was that everyone else would slow down to his speed when he had the ball. It didn't seem to matter how slowly he did something - he would still have time to do it.

And he had more of a rugby brain than the whole current saints team put together.

My last memory of Cooper was him doing a Walsh and refusing to take the ball in and giving a young lad called Sean Devine a hospital pass which effectively ended hos career

Re: Speed : Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:52 pm  

Legend!!!

I can see an Australian shirt in that pic which I'm assuming was from the 34-4 defeat to the tourists in 1990. Les Quirk went over for our try. I was 11 years old and couldn't see hardly anything because it was chocker.