Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:24 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

The flip side of this is, do the paying punters want to pay £25 to watch a reserves game ?

I'm good with using the squad depth through the season, due to injuries and suspensions etc but, having to use kids because the clubs are being asked to play with a 4 day turnaround or 3 times in 8 days is just wrong.
I agree that to a point, Woolf is doing the right thing but, it skews the competition.
Giving Cas (or anyone else) 2 easy points isn't really good for the game, is it and it's on the back of having to play too many games in too short a time frame.

Surely, as far as it can be achieved, we all want to see the best players matching up and not men v boys.

With cash getting tighter, people just wont turn out to watch

stains have done the hard mileage at the beginning of the season to get themselves to the top so why not rest your players, I can only hope that we now use the same principle as we aren't finishing top we are very unlikely to even get into the play offs so only leaves protecting our selves from being dragged into relegation battles we have a little breathing space so use it

Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:36 am  

It's a squad game, Saints have got themselves in a position to be able to utilise that squad as Woolf obviously thinks this is giving them the maximum opportunity to do the treble.
He's also building for the future by giving the younger players a look at what a first team game day looks like whilst he also gets the opportunity to see where they are with their development.
Some of them might have absolute stormers of a game which in turn makes the current incumbents of that position have a bit of a think about their own motivation.
I'd love my club to be in that position.

Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:26 pm  

Karen wrote:

I agree, at the end of the day, this is a squad game and flogging your first fit 17 when you have other players available is ridiculous. The great team of Manchester Utd in the late 90s chopped and changed between the competitions to keep legs fresh. You have a squad, use them!

Ha ha, the great m/u kept legs fresh. I could play soccer 7 days a week and twice on Sunday.

Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:55 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

The only world class coach in SL is protecting his players from an absolutely shocking decision from some nobodies who run SL who have no care for player welfare. As for a virtual academy side (sic) pretty much most of them are in the first team squad

Don’t blame Saints for having such a stacked first team squad

I guess we'll see how "stacked" it is after your game at Cas ??

Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:11 pm  

I think it is a weaker side than it would have been, but with quite a few already injured there is little room to rotate.

Grace injured
Hopoate injured
Dodds injured
MATA’UTIA injuried
Sironen banned
Hurrell banned
Knowles banned or injured
Roby getting his OAP bus pass

Re: Saints at it again... : Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:45 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Highly rated Pemberton isn't he? Who would you play in the halves then, presumably you're moving Lussick to 9?

He struggles with physicality at times so I suppose that’s why he is on the bench. Saints have 4 academy lads making their debut hopefully they do less minutes tonight.
We might see Bell at stand off and Moss at scrum half who played in our friendly against Leigh I think.
Not sure who’s full back probably Hill with Bennison going to centre.