Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:45 pm  

DannyT wrote:

It’s only the pandemic that’s kept him here to be fair or he’d be in Melbourne. We don’t have the starting forwards or size in the back row around him to support him. He punches holes constantly when not on the front foot, I can only imagine what he’s be like off the back of a carry from a Walmsley/Welch type.

He looks like a young Fielden to me……

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:46 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

You matched saints for 10 minutes. That was it. To say otherwise Is laughable. As I pointed out on the VT you had about 5 play the balls in saints 10 all game.

You were dominated, even with saints being decimated by injuries. You are miles away from saints. But…it’s fixable, and you will fix it.

The only thing laughable on this board is you, you schizophrenic pea brain.

Decimated by injuries? Really?

As I said, before you interrupted a sensible discussion, we were beaten by the better side. No complaints.

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:53 pm  

Shabino wrote:

He looks like a young Fielden to me……

Not got the same mean streak in him at the minute but there’s tons of talent.

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:00 pm  

Not watched the game back just going off memory.

Thought we played well first half and was disappointed to be 8 behind.

Going 4 points up plus Knowles going off with their current backrow absentees I thought we had a real chance.

Just couldn’t live with the intensity, left edge of Cust/Bibby/French got exposed big time by Lomax and crew.

Second half was no contest and sheerly outclassed.

Must be awesome to be a Saints fan currently, it won’t last forever though!

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:13 pm  

One positive after a tough day - Peet interview on WiganTV is spot on.

I was dreading him being made up we competed for 20-30mins (Lammy would have been buzzing with today’s performance).

He acknowledged we were way off and needed to keep up the intensity for 80mins and be clinical with our chances.

Very honest in his assessments and been really impressed with him so far.

Think we’ve got the right man to take us forward.

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:19 pm  

NSW wrote:

One positive after a tough day - Peet interview on WiganTV is spot on.

I was dreading him being made up we competed for 20-30mins (Lammy would have been buzzing with today’s performance).

He acknowledged we were way off and needed to keep up the intensity for 80mins and be clinical with our chances.

Very honest in his assessments and been really impressed with him so far.

Think we’ve got the right man to take us forward.

Yep, just seen his post match interview, straight up answer about Powell and realises exactly where we are in the scheme of things, reckon Lam would've "Arsene Wenger'd" the Powell question and then just given some "proud of the effort" platitude about the game itself

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:26 pm  

I was also dreading Walmsley tearing us apart but I thought we kept him pretty quiet too. I think just one decent run and PTB that led up to one of their tries.

Let's not forget when Leuluai went off the score was only 12-4 and should've been 12-10. After that we had to do a complete reshuffle and Saints took control.

What I found odd was that we moved French into the halves that required 2 more changes across the backline (that was already having a poor game), rather than just bringing Shorrocks on, who has played in the halves last year.

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:38 pm  

I thought we handled Walmsley pretty well but Paasi was a different kettle of fish, absolutely battered us (pardon the pun) his error at the start of the 2nd half apart

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:23 pm  

apollosghost wrote:

I thought we handled Walmsley pretty well but Paasi was a different kettle of fish, absolutely battered us (pardon the pun) his error at the start of the 2nd half apart

Unfortunately for us Passi changed the game when he came on. We had nothing on the bench anywhere near his level.
I’m disappointed but not totally down.
At the moment it reminds me of the 1983/1984 years.
We’re getting there after some grim years but need that one player to make us click and move us on.
I’d love us to sign a Graeme West or a Dean Bell to compliment additional quality signings in the centres and the forwards. Easier said than done but I’ve got good vibes that the foundations are being laid.

The squad is totally unbalanced but we need to give Peet his way for planning for 2023. IL and KR need to leave the recruiting to Peet and his assistants.

I hate to say but Saints are a quality team but at least we know where the bar is set.

Re: Squad for Good Friday : Sat Apr 16, 2022 12:21 am  

Just got in after being out all day after the game. Quite pleased with that overall.

Much will be made of Wigan’s injuries and rightly so but we had Sironen, Matautia, Grace, Hopoate missing then lost Knowles early which was a huge blow and also meant we were down to 16 players and one less sub. We then lost Dodd for the last 15 too.

Never for one minute did I think we were going to lose that game and we were quite poor in attack. Makinson was outstanding as was Roby and Lomax and Bell went really well too.

Apart from Fields try we kept him quiet and had a couple of VR decisions go against us (not watched the game back yet so don’t know how it looks)

All in all I think we will be much better for the SF and nothing I saw today has me worried for that game.