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: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:11 pm  
manoa thompsons knees wrote:
Agree, that extra friendly could have made a big difference with some of the team hardly playing for so long. I think i may be on my own here but after friday and the performance where we totaly dominated Saints for most of the game, im really looking forward to Warrington having there best season for a long time.


Must admit, the silver lining part of me did think along those lines, i didn't see the kr game but all the reports were terrible, so the first half friday must have been an improvement of a zillion fold.


i don't know about best season ever, that may be going a bit far, theres a few things that need sorting out but fingers crossed.

The glass is half full i suppose after friday, for me.
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: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:16 pm  
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Again I refer you to the table after about 8 or 10 games last season.


I'm not particularly bothered about the table early on, if the necessary improvement is shown it will take care of itself. We have a run of games coming up that will give us a much better indicator of how we compare to last year than Friday's game, as disappointing as it was to lose it.

For example, starting Saturday night, can we show that the defence on Friday (for the first 60 minutes anyway) was no 'one off'.
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: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:41 pm  
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I'm not particularly bothered about the table early on, if the necessary improvement is shown it will take care of itself. We have a run of games coming up that will give us a much better indicator of how we compare to last year than Friday's game, as disappointing as it was to lose it.

For example, starting Saturday night, can we show that the defence on Friday (for the first 60 minutes anyway) was no 'one off'.


That's not early on. That is the time you are telling us to wait til this season.
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: Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:12 pm  
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That is a good point. He has brought in two honest players who will work hard for our team.

He wasn't responsible for bringing in dead weight like King (although I wonder sometimes if Cullen was either).


I know rumours isn't really for here, but I think King wasn't Cullen's signing, I think Cullen would have had a new full back instead.
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:58 am  
Carvell was a Cullen signing.
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:56 pm  
Coming out of the ground on Friday I thought Wire played pretty well and dominated in every facet of the game for the first 50 minutes.

Despite the negativity on here I don't think they are that far off. They need to learn the mentality required to win games like that. Saints have been to the trenches many times so didn't panic. Wire did.
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:52 pm  
Some of you lot really are drama queens.

First 50 mins we were superb and then a couple of handling errors, poor positioning and a few god awful refereeing decisions meant we were on the backfoot for the final 30 minutes:

Johnson let his concentration slip when Gilmour went in unopposed, it was clear to me that he was expecting the ball to go open from the scrum. Criminal to let a player score unopposed from a scrum that far from the try line.

Did Briers play for the ball when he went in to tackle Long??
Was Morley off side when he picked up the loose ball after it had touched a Saints player?

In the first half was the ball reefed from Benny when he was over the line and therefore a penalty/penalty try and not a drop out?

One comment on here claims the Props won't score tries - who was it that got the second?

I'm not blaming the referee before anyone starts but without the ball you have to defend and anyone who plays/has played the game knows full well that having to defend continuosly drains the batteries. Lowes wanted an extra friendly so maybe we're not fully match fit yet?

Quite possibly our hardest game of the season is out of the way and in the eyes of some we came out of it with some credit based on our first half showing. Why not try seeing how we go over the next 3 or 4 weeks before getting on the teams back. I mean, it could be worse, we could support Wigan!!

As for player bashing - PMSL, one game in and it has started. I can't name a single player who was particularly poor, some unspectacular performances on show perhaps but could that be down to the tactics? The halves have been slatted but until Saints got their roll on did their halves have much influence? No.

One final point - the idiotic commentary on Sky. They talked for 10 minutes about the dodgy play the ball for Highams try but not once did they mention the fact that the whole of the Saints team were in fact off side at the time... Saints chuck the ball around and it's 'brilliant stuff', we do it and all you get is 'they got away with that'! When are we going to replace them with ex-players who know the game like they have in the NRL?
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:09 pm  
Dave T wrote:
Our props were excellent, they really were, but they will not score the points.


Southstander05 wrote:
Just one question....did we ever look like scoring in he 2nd half ??


love me I just give up. Do people comment on the game based on hearing the result on the radio news & not watching it.

Anyone else not spot the small flaw in the above ??
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:27 pm  
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love me I just give up. Do people comment on the game based on hearing the result on the radio news & not watching it.

Anyone else not spot the small flaw in the above ??


Obviously I did as it is referenced in my message (the one about the props scoring that is!)
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: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:40 pm  
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love me I just give up. Do people comment on the game based on hearing the result on the radio news & not watching it.

Anyone else not spot the small flaw in the above ??
Okay I wasn't clear enough. The forwards will not score the points required to win things. They didn't. You need backs to bring in the points, if you can get a few tries from forwards then they can be great bonus tries, but you can't rely on them to bring in the points. The forwards did an excellent job, Higham and Rah scoring, and Westwood and Anderson not getting the ball down over the line, but the fact is that is not enough. You need the backs to bring the points in.
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