Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:15 pm  

78 points conceded through 9 games!


Is this the best defence the league has seen? Saints have the second best D (on teams playing 9) and have conceded 79 more than us! I can't ever remember a team averaging under 10 a game for so long. Obviously this will mean little with no silverwear this year but it's a great foundation to launch an attack on the elusive double.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:42 pm  

Wigan conceded 230 points in 25 games (222 in 23 regular season) in 1999. We'll have to go some to better that but, yes, we've been defending well so far.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:46 pm  

It is much improve, but you also have to take into account we have played London,Wakey and Widnes at home out of that 9 games.played Catalans when they were awful and Bradford are an easy beat at the minute.All 5 teams mentioned posed little threat on the day.Huddersfield and Warrington have not started the season anywhere near the level they played last year in their attacking pomps. and we got them nice and early on, Wire showed today what they can do on a nice dry track.

Not trying to do down our efforts this season so far, because i do think we look far more solid than recent years, i just don't believe we have yet come accross a side that has been in top form.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:04 pm  

More of the same whipping boy opposition for Leeds on Monday I suspect, particularly given the short turnaround as Salford haven't even played their first Easter fixture yet! Easter Monday SL fixtures are also notorious for being several gears undercooked in comparison to the previous round played 3 or 4 days earlier.

Leeds 48 Salford 6 is my prediction, even if they rest several players again. Awful stuff unworthy of being tagged under the banner of full time professional sport. Super it most definitely ain't. It's tragic what this sport has been reduced to.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:38 pm  

William Eve wrote:

More of the same whipping boy opposition for Leeds on Monday I suspect, particularly given the short turnaround as Salford haven't even played their first Easter fixture yet! Easter Monday SL fixtures are also notorious for being several gears undercooked in comparison to the previous round played 3 or 4 days earlier.

Leeds 48 Salford 6 is my prediction, even if they rest several players again. Awful stuff unworthy of being tagged under the banner of full time professional sport. Super it most definitely ain't. It's tragic what this sport has been reduced to.

Yawn.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:28 pm  

William Eve wrote:

More of the same whipping boy opposition for Leeds on Monday I suspect, particularly given the short turnaround as Salford haven't even played their first Easter fixture yet! Easter Monday SL fixtures are also notorious for being several gears undercooked in comparison to the previous round played 3 or 4 days earlier.

Leeds 48 Salford 6 is my prediction, even if they rest several players again. Awful stuff unworthy of being tagged under the banner of full time professional sport. Super it most definitely ain't. It's tragic what this sport has been reduced to.

Stop talking about it then.

Re: Our Defence : Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:48 pm  

William Eve wrote:

More of the same whipping boy opposition for Leeds on Monday I suspect, particularly given the short turnaround as Salford haven't even played their first Easter fixture yet! Easter Monday SL fixtures are also notorious for being several gears undercooked in comparison to the previous round played 3 or 4 days earlier.

Leeds 48 Salford 6 is my prediction, even if they rest several players again. Awful stuff unworthy of being tagged under the banner of full time professional sport. Super it most definitely ain't. It's tragic what this sport has been reduced to.

Go follow another sport then, simple.

You mock those who attend games even though they enjoy it.....yet you post on here constantly even though you have massive dissain for the sport currently......you're the biggest fool and waster of your personal time on here.

Re: Our Defence : Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:10 am  

William Eve wrote:

More of the same whipping boy opposition for Leeds on Monday I suspect, particularly given the short turnaround as Salford haven't even played their first Easter fixture yet! Easter Monday SL fixtures are also notorious for being several gears undercooked in comparison to the previous round played 3 or 4 days earlier.

Leeds 48 Salford 6 is my prediction, even if they rest several players again. Awful stuff unworthy of being tagged under the banner of full time professional sport. Super it most definitely ain't. It's tragic what this sport has been reduced to.

"no really"

Re: Our Defence : Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:27 am  

4 different posters quoting the same drivel from some sadsack WUM? I bet he's dragging himself round his bedsit in triumph!

Re: Our Defence : Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:49 am  

Its undeniable though that the standard of opposition in SL this season has been diluted to the point where, with the exception of three or four teams you just simply expect to win and not concede many - how shocked would you all have been to lose at Odsal on Thursday, how shocked will you be to lose against Salford and why is your expectation to win well and concede few ?

Thats not how professional sport should be and it will not flourish while it is so.