Ben Flower reception : Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:24 pm  

Is Bad Ben going to get a fitting reception from the majority of Saints fans?

Re: Ben Flower reception : Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:35 pm  

Rommel wrote:

Is Bad Ben going to get a fitting reception from the majority of Saints fans?

It's a tough one, because he's got a decent chance of being on the winning side. If the Saints fans go with booing, they will probably be silent after 20 minutes when Wigan are two scores in front. A better bet would be to chant about Lance rather than giving that scum the pleasure of the attention being on him? As with that other tool Newton, he'll probably enjoy it. But it might be the first time there has ever been any noise from the Saints fans at Langtree so who knows? Fingers crossed the boys can make a game of it.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:29 pm  

Surely an ironic cheer and applause for him gifting us the final would be more likely to get in his head.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:45 am  

The thing is, he's not a comedy villan like tomkins, Newton or Bailey. He's a decent player who had a moment of absolute madness. It's not generally part of his game, and as Backrow says, he did basically gift us a GF win

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:58 am  

We could just make fun of him, pity the club couldn,t play The Eye of the Tiger" when he comes off the bench, so we will just have to chant champions when he takes the ball up.
Wonder if he will pick on the smaller guys in the team or will he front up to Walmsley and Mose.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 6:38 am  

My reaction to flower is "meh"

Average enough player that let his teammates down. Couldn't care less tbh.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:06 am  

I personally think he should be given a standing ovation. If it wasn't for him we'd still be smarting from a record grand final defeat.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:25 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

The thing is, he's not a comedy villan like tomkins, Newton or Bailey. He's a decent player who had a moment of absolute madness. It's not generally part of his game, and as Backrow says, he did basically gift us a GF win

Summed up nicely for me.

He's a good bloke by all accounts and it was totally out of character. A lot of the fuss seems to have blown over because I've seen very little in the press about this being his first game against Saints. I didn't give it a thought until the other day.

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:31 am  

it would make a change from the usual chants of 'FFFFFFFOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRWWWWWAAAAARRRRDDDDDD'



In all seriousness though, I expect you lot to give him some right stick and fair enough. However, pretty sure that there is nothing you can do/say that will make him feel any worse than he does already about letting his team mates down

Re: Ben Flower reception : Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:15 am  

We just need to let it go........