Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 5:04 pm  

Stu M wrote:

Next week will be damage limitation. I fully understand most teams have injuries but we’ve simply got too many in the same area of the field

Walmsley
Matautia
Knowles
Batchelor
Sironen
Paasi
Norman

Last night Roby went off injured and Wingfield failed his HIA. So add those two to the above.

Lees was also sent to the sin bin for an alleged high shot so potentially add him to the above too.

We’ll be lucky to get within 20

Payl Wellens said Roby wasn't injured and having seen the highlights Less tackle wasn't even a pen never mind a yellow

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:36 pm  

thesaint71 wrote:

Payl Wellens said Roby wasn't injured and having seen the highlights Less tackle wasn't even a pen never mind a yellow

having watched the game on Good Friday, I am starting to think that time has caught up with Roby and he might have played one year too many. I hope I am wrong because I don't want to see a champion player go out on a low.

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:46 pm  

Zig wrote:

having watched the game on Good Friday, I am starting to think that time has caught up with Roby and he might have played one year too many. I hope I am wrong because I don't want to see a champion player go out on a low.

I agree, you cannot write off such a champion player but apart from the Penrith game where he was outstanding he seems to have aged quickly this year.

Could be that he is just carrying a knock and I hope that is the case as he doesn’t deserve to go out playing so far off the heights he achieved even in the last few years.

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:56 pm  

Not sure he will be seen as doing a season too many regardless of the outcome for saints this year

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:27 pm  

Everyone is under the microscope when things aren’t going well and that includes Roby. Realistically he’s not been the old, marauding Roby for a few years and while still an exceptional player, he’s now more reliant on the team making space for him to work off the back of. I doubt he’s doing a great deal differently now to what he was doing last year but if your team isn’t rolling forward, isn’t camped in the opposition half etc, you’re just not going to have the same output and you suddenly look sluggish.

I remember the thread on here about us being a team that had 2 exceptional players and not much else a few weeks back and as I said on there, the 2 exceptional players hadn’t been in great form anyway, because however good you may be, you still need your teammates to lay the foundation and then are you an average team with 2 exceptional players? Or are you a good side that helps 2 really good players play exceptionally well? We’ve been the latter this past 3 weeks (although the 2 only played in the first game) and we’ve proved that those 2 can’t do what they do without the other lads laying a platform. Drop Field, French, Roby, Williams or whatever top player you can name in at Wakey, Cas or Hull this season and they do next to nothing.

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:09 pm  

apollosghost wrote:

Getting a bit concerned over the absence of TheWarringtonWolve69, hope he's alright

Dont worry. He’s always watching. He’s always waiting. Next time we loose and Saints win he’ll be on here. Imagine the sh*te he’d of posted. I’m sure we was called flat track bullies just a couple of week ago. Well i think we’ve now solved that by rolling out Wigan B

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:34 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Throw Huddersfield, Leeds, Hull KR and Salford in the mix as well. Personally feel 2023 thus far has been hugely positive for the game in this country with better attendances/atmospheres and more dangerous teams resulting in more appealing fixtures. Saints going through a slump has also helped to freshen things up a bit.

I would just like to take this moment to thank St Helens for pretending to be absolute plodders so that the whole league can thrive. Really inspirational stuff!!!

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:05 am  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Number 5 on that list is what alluded to a while back.

That Penrith win was your Everest. You have nothing left to achieve and that's hard to keep standards up as it is without the change in coach also to someone that doesn't seem as intense as Woolf. Very similar to us when Wane left in that regard.

I still wouldn't want to play your best side in a knockout game though.

We did that last year Egg

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sun Apr 16, 2023 1:04 pm  

Not good news for the Saints https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/australi ... ove-73169/

Not good news for the Saints https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/australi ... ove-73169/

Re: Wigan v Sts discussion - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE : Sun Apr 16, 2023 1:22 pm  

Dodd's currently a million miles off a NRL contract, real second season syndrome at the moment, by no means writing him off but he looks like Harry Smith did when he had that 'mare period and look at Harry now.