: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:52 am  

Oxford Exile wrote:

one word...fitness...

everything points to the fact that we are not fit enough!

shot our bolt in the first half...nothing left for the second.

Same old same old.

Watching us v Saints is like going to see the same west-end play over and over again...you just know whats coming next..its as if its scripted.

It is early days (first game and all that)..but the signs are that nothing has changed....

I can't disagree with any of that the way we ran out of steam in the last 20 was alarming..

Another thing Monaghan really needs to shape up or ship out...
There was One particular moment when we were still 2 points in front and after being put under pressure we made it into the Saints half...
On the 5th tackle Monaghan put up a nothing bomb instead of drilling the ball into Saints corner and making them work hard to get back up the field...

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:57 am  

Indeed some of the kicking was aimless in the second half and chaseless as well.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:00 am  

Oxford Exile wrote:

one word...fitness...

everything points to the fact that we are not fit enough!

shot our bolt in the first half...nothing left for the second.

I thought similar myself combined with a poor mentality. I've not seen a collapse like that in years.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:00 am  

this is why warrington will never win anything, they have no composure and dont no how to handle a comanding lead - as micky higham said "Saints didnt win the game, warrington lost it"

saints did not look the unbeatable team we've seen in the last years, saints wont be beating any teams 40+

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:26 am  

i thought wire played very well the best iv seen of them for a long time something is missing in the halfbacks though its games like that were alfie langer would of turned the magic on, its the first of many games and to be honest i dont think anyone would of beat saints in the last 20 . maybe you needed another freindly game.. but lots of positives well done wire good luck next week.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:38 am  

misha01 wrote:

i thought wire played very well the best iv seen of them for a long time something is missing in the halfbacks though its games like that were alfie langer would of turned the magic on, its the first of many games and to be honest i dont think anyone would of beat saints in the last 20 . maybe you needed another freindly game.. but lots of positives well done wire good luck next week.

Really? We lost by 6 tries to 2. We are further from ever against a Saints team who didn't have to do too much last night.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:05 pm  

x~Gilly~x wrote:

:STUPID: If you seriously think morley is any good then you deserve everything you get, he is pants

I've come across some dim people on here, but you are up there.

SEGREGATION!

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:20 pm  

DannyRic wrote:

this is why warrington will never win anything, they have no composure and dont no how to handle a comanding lead - as micky higham said "Saints didnt win the game, warrington lost it"+

I think you'll find that both happened.

DannyRic wrote:

saints did not look the unbeatable team we've seen in the last years, saints wont be beating any teams 40+

I will have you a bet of 10 english pounds that sometime this season we score 40+ points against somebody.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:23 pm  

I think SaintsFan is on the button. Saints got a roll on and we aided them with turning over the ball far too cheaply.

It's easy to disregard Saints' ability at utilising momentum and say we didn't look fit, they are masters of getting upfield from the play the ball. I would love to see the amount of tackes and completion rate. /the gane is about momentum, Saints got a

I would go as far to say we lost the game in the first half, with the amount of posession and position we had we should have gone in further ahead than we did. A couple of areas we do seem to repeating errors is concentration from restarts and unforced errors.

All-in-all I am quite confused, we looked composed in defence in the first half, yet completely the opposite in the second half.

Never simple following Warrington.

[Paul Thexton]

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:40 pm  

Our goal line defence in the first half also looked a little worrysome but we were in those instances aided by some uncharacteristically poor handling from saints, saints blew at least 3 (if not more) clear cut scoring chances that they ordinarily would not have done in that first half.

Warrington will not have a successful season (and by successful I am aiming low by meaning a challenge cup semi final and/or at least two wins in the playoffs) unless they can learn to defend close to their own try line.