Re: back to earlier in the season. : Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:37 pm  

Is there no news on lomax yet didnt look to good for me the game changed once we changed the pack around flangan flannery lms and clough did not have anywhere near the impact tp laffranchi Perry and sia had once the four went off that's when the hull kr forwards got on top allowing Dobson and green to play gaskell played well for me when our forwards were on top after that he struggle like any half back would behind a pack getting batyered

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:38 pm  

Webbo wrote:

Yet when the props were Perry & Laffanchi, we mullered HKR, building a 26-0 lead that had an awful lot to do with forward momentum. I though LMS had his worst game in while tonight, Clough & Flanagan were anonymous, and Flannery completely ineffective. Roby had a bit of a stinker by his standards, too.

Perry's first spell was very decent, whilst LaFrank was rock solid throughout.

Agree.Perry and Laffranchi were very good tonight and led us back into it in the last 10.The penalty Perry gained near the end was crucial and led to Laffranchi's try.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:39 pm  

Catalan and Warrington may actually put our destiny in our own hands. But it will be tough.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:47 pm  

Strange game tonight. The pack started the game on fire, we had almost all the ball for the first half hour. Puletua was unplayable, Perry was having a stormer, Gaskell's kicking was superb and Lomax was looking dangerous. Some of the moves in that first 30 were the Saints of old romping up the field. Then something just switched, suddenly Hull KR had all the ball and scored a couple of really soft tries. From the 30 minute mark to the 65 minute mark they absolutely destroyed us. Their pack was on top, their halves creating chances. When they hit the front I though it was over, no way back.

Jon Wilkin was my MOM tonight. There are a lot who criticise him for not stepping up when it matters, but I thought he was sensational tonight. He put in so many tackles, most of them very dominant. He was also superb with the ball and caused trouble with his kicking. He really stepped up the intensity with 20 to go and led the team home.

Is there any news on J-Lo? Looked a very serious injury given the way they took 15 minutes to walk him off the pitch, hopefully he won't be out too long.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:02 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

Did she not mean he did not look good, ie injured??

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. He was carrying his arm and looked in a lot of pain.

So far as the halfback performances were concerned, the coach made a mistake in taking all our more aggressive (relatively speaking) men off the pitch at the same time but even when they were on they were beaten by the HKR forwards, as they were in the away fixture. We don't have big aggressive props. We seem to have an inadequate prop in Perry (he was atrocious during the first half) and LMS (who fires up inconsistently) and then second rowers trying to play at prop and doing so inconsistently. Without hard running, aggressive props our halfbacks can't do their thing. That's just a fact of rugby league. IMO that's what happened tonight when HKR recovered from their last minute arrival at the stadium and started to play.

However, that's a different issue from defence. That was just a recurring problem of the season. I think we just miss Jammer and all the work he did, especially in the middle.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:03 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Perry was having a stormer,

He most certainly didn't. He was terrible in the first half. He was a penalty/error machine.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:18 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Strange game tonight. The pack started the game on fire, we had almost all the ball for the first half hour. Puletua was unplayable, Perry was having a stormer, Gaskell's kicking was superb and Lomax was looking dangerous. Some of the moves in that first 30 were the Saints of old romping up the field.
Then something just switched, suddenly Hull KR had all the ball and scored a couple of really soft tries. From the 30 minute mark to the 65 minute mark they absolutely destroyed us. Their pack was on top, their halves creating chances. When they hit the front I though it was over, no way back.

Jon Wilkin was my MOM tonight. There are a lot who criticise him for not stepping up when it matters, but I thought he was sensational tonight. He put in so many tackles, most of them very dominant. He was also superb with the ball and caused trouble with his kicking. He really stepped up the intensity with 20 to go and led the team home.

Is there any news on J-Lo? Looked a very serious injury given the way they took 15 minutes to walk him off the pitch, hopefully he won't be out too long.

Yes. It started raining!

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:52 am  

The last two games have been important for saints as a team. To come back from 10-0 down against Salford and then to win a game after giving away a big lead show real character. We have lost the never write saints off mentality, and I can hardly remember a game in tge last couple of years whwn we have come from behind. In 96 we made a habit of playing games like that, and those wins have saints the confidence that carried us through for our successes in super league. Winning easily is great, but having the mentality to win games like last night is more important.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:06 am  

Webbo wrote:

Yet when the props were Perry & Laffanchi, we mullered HKR, building a 26-0 lead that had an awful lot to do with forward momentum. I though LMS had his worst game in while tonight, Clough & Flanagan were anonymous, and Flannery completely ineffective. Roby had a bit of a stinker by his standards, too.

Perry's first spell was very decent, whilst LaFrank was rock solid throughout.

Perry was terrible in his first 20 min stint, they hammered him, he's flat on his back soon as the defence hit him. The field postion came from some very good good kicks from lee Gaskell. Perrys second spell was much better.

Flannery was ineffective but I'm starting to think flanaghan will be the new flannery, he's totally invisable when he's on.

TP is wasted outwide, it's pretty rare he touches the ball.

Re: back to earlier in the season. : Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:39 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

And Wigan.

Shush! You will only get accused off SaintsFan of derailling this thread