Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:11 pm  

From what I'd read I wasn't expecting Austin to make it (From his interview I think today would have been the first day that he'd tried running on it?). Choice for halfback is now Patton + Currie / Ratchford / Livett. I think that he'll go with Currie with Westwood and Mamo missing out.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:12 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

Inbred mouth breathers on redvee apoplectic that he’s not been named and it makes a ‘mockery’ of the system and will be ‘pathetic’ if he plays. No lads, what would be pathetic is wasting a spot in the 19 for someone who may not play! It’s win-win for us. If he’s still injured, nothing’s lost. If he plays, we’ve operated within the system, no matter how daft you may think said system is.

I just cannot stand the lot of them. Is there an oxygen deficiency in sintellins?

Agree with this. Over on Red V they do seem to spend more time discussing us than their own club. Some kind of need to criticise everything we do or don't do? it's comical really.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:15 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

No lads, what would be pathetic is wasting a spot in the 19 for someone who may not play!

But that isn't an issue. If you named him and he wasn't fit, you could just swap him out for someone else. It's a stupid system brought in as a kneejerk to Millward's lineup against Bradford that time that caused all the controversy.

Your hatred of Saints fans is irrational as well.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:24 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

But that isn't an issue. If you named him and he wasn't fit, you could just swap him out for someone else. It's a stupid system brought in as a kneejerk to Millward's lineup against Bradford that time that caused all the controversy.

Your hatred of Saints fans is irrational as well.

Not of some it isn't.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:26 pm  

It is a pathetic process. I don’t get why we bother with this masquerade, it’s a 19 man squad to account for late fitness tests illness. Just pick 19, if you’re not in it, you don’t play.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:27 pm  

moving on... wrote:

Austin won't play I don't think. Leaving him out the squad is a double bluff.

Saints will train expecting to play against him as their game plan. hopefully someone can step in and provide a style/game plan they haven't prepped for and can't get to grips with.

Surely if you want Saints to think he'll be playing you would name him in the squad and say he's playing! Then withdraw him and replace him at the last minute and implement your master plan?

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:29 pm  

I don't think you should have to name a squad prior to the game at all. What's the point? You have a squad to choose from and coaches should be able to select whoever they want.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:36 pm  

Shazbaz wrote:

:lol: Agree with this. Over on Red V they do seem to spend more time discussing us than their own club. Some kind of need to criticise everything we do or don't do? it's comical really.

But they're not bothered by us, as we are irrelevant to them and not even a rival apparently.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:41 pm  

Barbed Wire wrote:

It is a pathetic process. I don’t get why we bother with this masquerade, it’s a 19 man squad to account for late fitness tests illness. Just pick 19, if you’re not in it, you don’t play.

Agree with this if there has to be a 19 named, otherwise just scrap the naming of 19 altogether as CW8 suggests and as I raised in a post related to Ratch's inclusion earlier in the year.

Re: CC Final Squad : Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:59 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

Inbred mouth breathers on redvee apoplectic that he’s not been named and it makes a ‘mockery’ of the system and will be ‘pathetic’ if he plays. No lads, what would be pathetic is wasting a spot in the 19 for someone who may not play! It’s win-win for us. If he’s still injured, nothing’s lost. If he plays, we’ve operated within the system, no matter how daft you may think said system is.

I just cannot stand the lot of them. Is there an oxygen deficiency in sintellins?

apoplectic

Hardly.

More a case of disbelieving given how many 19 man squads have had late editions.

Its not like Austin is a new player for wire who saints have never faced. He's a known quantity and has yet to play a significant role in our matches.

To me ratchford and Clarke are the main threats they have proven against saints that they can make an impact.