Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:20 am  

Against Cas I’d be tempted to consider McCormack for Mom, Sinfield for Frawley and Ruan or Goudemand for O’Connor.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:29 am  

I wouldn't be changing the spine unless we have injuries. They need game time together. We definitely need some extra pace and athleticism in the team, though.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:47 am  

christopher wrote:

That's not what I said, I said comparing the two was daft.

Have a listen to Ash on the BBC podcast he's full of praise for Momirosvki and how he has helped Ash with his game.

Thanks had a listen really gushing stuff but to be honest I'm not that bothered how good he is at coaching more worried about his playing credentials looks like another can't be ar%!d journey man but still better than Frawley.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:51 am  

I don’t think RS will drop Frawley. Apart from anything else it would be an admission of failure on his part. Matt can play better to be fair and he’s decent in D too - I just think he’s been poor for 2 consecutive weeks.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:53 am  

I think with the quality in our team, we can play better than we are showing.

I’m sorry but I just don’t think Rohan is capable of getting the best out of our team. I will give him until 12 weeks but can’t see anything changing than win one week, lose the next.

For mine, we must win at least 8 of the first 12 for him to remain in the job and even then unless there is a vast improvement, I suspect I will likely remain unconvinced.

I wish we played with the intensity of the first 30 minutes last week, albeit that seems a rarity.

No doubt Leeds will put 50 past an awful Cas side and all will be forgiven. Then the following week there will be another awful performance.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:04 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

I don’t think RS will drop Frawley. Apart from anything else it would be an admission of failure on his part. Matt can play better to be fair and he’s decent in D too - I just think he’s been poor for 2 consecutive weeks.

I would not be surprised if O'Connor was dropped with young Sinfield on the bench next week. Frawley could spot Ackers at nine when he goes off with Jack at half.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:19 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

I don’t think RS will drop Frawley. Apart from anything else it would be an admission of failure on his part. Matt can play better to be fair and he’s decent in D too - I just think he’s been poor for 2 consecutive weeks.

Just ask the Midget fans if Frawley can play better

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

I actually thought Bentley played well last night despite a couple of needless penalties.
If the other forwards put in as much effort in tackling we would look so much better defensively at least.
Like I said last night poor team selection, not replacing Momorovski when he couldn`t walk and not having Ruan or Goudemand on the bench was a mistake.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:37 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

I would not be surprised if O'Connor was dropped with young Sinfield on the bench next week. Frawley could spot Ackers at nine when he goes off with Jack at half.

Well it’s either make some changes or accept this is the best version of Leeds we can have this year until Fus comes back on the right wing.

We should comfortably beat Cas but it’s another potential banana skin. I’d pick a big side and go straight down the middle on them.

Also if Jason QareQare isn’t contracted up for next year, in the absence of Davies or Johnstone is he a potential target? Given that we have his brother at the club?

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:52 pm  

Quote from the BBC website:
“ Leeds head coach Rohan Smith:
"It's very disappointing. There are a lot of hurt people in that dressing room.
"You could feel that aspect of what we wanted to accomplish this year has slipped away. It's disappointing that our focus now is on one competition so we'll dust off and go again next week.
"In the end it's a couple of deflections and a shocking miss on a barge that cost us the game.
"There's plenty for us to take out of it as far as hanging in there and keeping connected, but I thought we were not where we needed to be and the better team clearly won."

Not sure what there is to take out of that game and if he thinks a couple of deflections and a missed barge are the reasons we lost then he has lost the plot.