[Chris71]

Re: On to Saints in the League : Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:34 pm  

Hullrealist wrote:

My mate around the club has said that as far as he’s aware griffin said he felt that that saint fans were influencing Kendall too much and when he got yellow he said something around “loving joke”

If the charge is questioning Kendal’s integrity and he was called a cheat or bent I’d tend to agree. However if Griffin has said along the of ‘lovin joke’ about the decision then my word the MRP are going to doing overtime from now on. Nearly every player when a decision goes against them utters the same sort of response.

Kendal is there to officiate by carrying out the rules and keep things from getting out of hand. In the first 40 mins his performance was certainly questionable as the Fash decision alone shows with the MRP proving both Kendal and the official to have got it wrong.
Kendals has an arrogance about him and for someone who apparently played the game has little respect himself for players and seems power goes to his head.
Yes Griffin should have known better and kept quiet but Kendal should have also have the ability to speak with a player to defuse rather escalate situations. I think Kendal arrogance got the better of him with the speed of the red less than 4 seconds after the yellow when the player in question is walking away.
For me Kendal shows he has t the personality or ability to handle this sort of situation or occasion.

Re: On to Saints in the League : Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:48 pm  

Meant F****ing joke but it got corrected lol

Re: On to Saints in the League : Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:05 pm  

I went to me first game at KC for 13 years and the atmosphere was excellent
The fans really got behind the team !!!

Griffin - what a clown and lost us the game simple as that

This week v Saints - this time I see a
massive loss

2nd half defence - I watched the Saints player 10m out run at Savelio and it was as plain as day he’d score - Savelio was like soft cheese
It was beyond easy

Litten has no defence ability head on - the Saints player literally walked over and through him

the other 2 tries were almost the same - it’s not tired players but low intensity as only scored these tries 10-15 mins into 2nd half

That defence would scare the hell out of me as a coach and Saints must be licking their lips for Thursday when the atmosphere drops off and FC feel
sorry for themselves

COYH but not convinced on this one

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:52 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

I went to me first game at KC for 13 years and the atmosphere was excellent
The fans really got behind the team !!!

Griffin - what a clown and lost us the game simple as that

This week v Saints - this time I see a
massive loss

2nd half defence - I watched the Saints player 10m out run at Savelio and it was as plain as day he’d score - Savelio was like soft cheese
It was beyond easy

Litten has no defence ability head on - the Saints player literally walked over and through him

the other 2 tries were almost the same - it’s not tired players but low intensity as only scored these tries 10-15 mins into 2nd half

That defence would scare the hell out of me as a coach and Saints must be licking their lips for Thursday when the atmosphere drops off and FC feel
sorry for themselves

COYH but not convinced on this one

They only scored 1 try in the first 15 minutes of the second half.

Dodd scored the second one around the hour mark?

Whilst some players need to work on tackling, a current work in progress, some of them were shattered by the time Dodd scored. That was a result of tackling a team much bigger than them and the fact that some haven’t played a lot of rugby lately and are still improving their fitness.

We desperately need some big forwards.

[Chris71]

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:37 am  

Losing Taylor early on was a big factor that is getting over looked due to the cards issued. Unfortunately with releasing Evans and not bringing in a suitable replacement when we then lose someone like Taylor the way he's been playing this season we are going to struggle in a game whether we have 12 or 13 on the field.

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:46 am  

We all think certain referees have a bias to certain teams,but a player is the last person to tell the referee what he thinks.
Its a pity really because griffin is probably playing the best rugby of his life.

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:15 am  

Be interesting to see who gets rested when the squad gets announced later.

Low on troops, but TS alluded to bringing some fresh players in

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:21 am  

I don't understand the reasoning for bringing in Lovodua. He is 99% likely to be leaving, so why bring him in? Balmforth should be in, give him a chance. Or, do we think he may start with McNamara at 9, with Lovodua on the bench for the 'Dwyer' spark

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:26 am  

I’d start playing Balmforth now. Unless they’ve decided he won’t be here next year?

[Chris71]

Re: On to Saints in the League : Tue Jun 20, 2023 10:49 am  

Irregs#16 wrote:

I don't understand the reasoning for bringing in Lovodua. He is 99% likely to be leaving, so why bring him in? Balmforth should be in, give him a chance. Or, do we think he may start with McNamara at 9, with Lovodua on the bench for the 'Dwyer' spark

It would seem the lack of seeing Balmforth indicates he’s not going to be at the club post season or TS just doesn’t think he’s ready. If Dwyer doesn’t feature from now until the end of season I wouldn’t be unhappy. Really don’t see why Warrington have re signed him tbh.

Would rather go with giving McNamara a run at 9 over Dwyer if Balmforth isn’t going to feature this season.