Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:21 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

I do like Ackers, he has the odd penalty in him but he tackles hard and his distribution is very good.

I don’t know, maybe Saints are a bit of a bogey side for us at the moment but we went backwards from last week despite having two first graders back.

‘Bogey side’ would suggest we are a good team, and just struggle against this one team, who we’d expect to beat at home. Not the case at all.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:09 am  

Pretty disastrous start to his Leeds career for Mom.. could be injured again. He doesn’t look to have settled yet and looks unfit

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:13 am  

Pathetic performance

Mom and Frawley terrible yet again, to be fair, not the only ones

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:51 am  

Saints two weeks running was always going to be hard games.
As last year,the manner of the defeats c/ performances is frustrating.

The bench stuff in both is stupid.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:11 am  

Momirovski on the wing was daft. I've never liked moving multiple players to sort one position. Don't rate Roberts? Fine. Pick someone else there.

But our problems start with our pack. Even our biggest players just aren't physical enough, and none of them make yards when the going is tough. We knew this last year and it looks like more of the same. Ruan has potential and a bit of oomph and would have been better than picking more microscopic forwards.
I've bit my tongue on Frawley, but he really does look as poor as I feared when we signed him.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:39 am  

And yet it'll (probably) get the paper over cracks treatment if we beat a few of the so called weaker teams until we got trounced by Wigan / Saints again in the league....

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:32 am  

We should still be a top six side this year, but on this evidence we are 3/4 players off the top sides.

More worrying for me is that three of our new signings have problems, and Frawley has been poor both games against Saints.

It’s alright RS blaming the referees but like I said last week, the difference is that Saints just don’t make the slack errors we do.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:01 am  

Someone summed it up pretty well on ‘X’ last night stating that Rohan Smith is the equivalent of Jesse Marsch at Leeds United

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:13 am  

We can argue till the cows come home about the players.
It doesn't really matter: while they're been asked to do exactly the same as last year's mob, you'd expect this year to be a carbon copy of last. Which is how it's shaping up.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:14 am  

Hmm they don’t look well coached do they..