: Mon May 04, 2009 8:41 am  

St pete wrote:

Do you mean rest longy or drop him coz of his dire form?

Both.

: Mon May 04, 2009 8:50 am  

~ No1 Saints Fan ~ wrote:

Both.

Imo he should be dropped!

How can he need a rest when he just had 3 weeks off with a injury?

Potter should drop him and it might give him a kick up the ass he needs.

His attitude has been terrible.

: Mon May 04, 2009 8:58 am  

How can burn out be the problem, all players have had a break after the WC, Wigan had a few players there and had them in the final so played more games than the English team. Wigan have played more games in the regular season than Saints, seems a poor excuse for Saints being well beaten.

: Mon May 04, 2009 9:53 am  

the tide is now starting to change,

: Mon May 04, 2009 9:57 am  

Long has been bad, yes. But so has a hell of a lot of players, including Cunningham. His passing from dummy half the last few weeks has been shocking.

: Mon May 04, 2009 10:00 am  

Ken Barlow wrote:

the tide is now starting to change,

Didn't some guy by the name of Canute say that just before he nearly drowned.

: Mon May 04, 2009 1:51 pm  

Maybe you're missing Perellini more than you realise?

Re: Burn out? : Mon May 04, 2009 2:47 pm  

eddiewaringsflatcap wrote:

The performance against Wigan tonight should have been unacceptable to Potter. The Bradford perfromance was made to look stellar as passes were once again rolled along the floor and hured into touch.

However possibly one of the most worrying factors were how many players looked shot. With Leeds osing against Salford and Quins at home, I begin to wonder how much impact the World Cup and the extra games in the play off straight has had on some of the players. The callenge cup game at Leeds hardly did both sides any favours neither.

Saints looked slow against Wigan. They were sloppy in attack and atrocious in defence and displayed the intensity of an NL1 side. It was a horrible display of intent and we looked like a side feeling its way into the season. We were as morose as a friendly match at Batley.

I really think Potter needs to blood some youngsters to give the likes of Graham, Wilkin, Wellens and all a rest. Even Tony P was involved in the WC and looked jaded tonight.

Overall we have suceeded in making two medicore sides look like world beaters. How Saints recover from 2 maulings will be important, as we look like we need a weeks rest at the moment.

I would suggest Eastmond gets a gig at 7 next week if only to give Long a rocket up the booty, because his passing has been quite literally of the standard of a 7 year old learning the game.

Some credit has to be given to Wigan tonight who read and snuffed out most of the Saints moves, and made Potter's comments look rather silly when you have two plane crashes waiting to happen on the wing like Meli and Gardener.

Surely a 7 year old couldnt throw it that far over the touchline.

Seriously though, you should be playing Eastmond instead of Long, Long is past it, I want to see Eastmond make it for Englands future hopes of winning the world cup. Him Tomkins and Myler future half-backs and its not looking too bad. You have some great young talent so I agree you should give some of them a rest.