Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:29 pm  

Pies totally dominant. And we now look utterly knackered. Hard to see who on the saints team is going to be able to reverse this momentum.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:31 pm  

Well done Wilkin and Roby. Senior pros doing a shift. Need more.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:38 pm  

Richards has now cost us two sets in the Wigan ten, on first tackle both times.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:44 pm  

Mose knockers, take note : without Walmsley, Mose is our ONLY go forward, despite the fact that we don't seem to be able to give him a decent pass

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:46 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

Richards has now cost us two sets in the Wigan ten, on first tackle both times.

I always defend Richards but he really doesn't help himself with daft errors like he's made.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:52 pm  

Our passing is just off. Not just the ones which are not going to hand, but also the timing of those which do : too many balls going behind them man or to him, rather than in front so he can run on to it. Which partly explains our lack of go forward.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:57 pm  

Great play by Saints we've helped Wigan but they have already lost discipline as they are not getting their own way.

Can see a Wigan forward walking second half at this rate. Lots of high shots

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:00 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

Mose knockers, take note : without Walmsley, Mose is our ONLY go forward, despite the fact that we don't seem to be able to give him a decent pass

Mose has done that for the last two years, just some one eyed speccies would prefer to have an 80 minute plodder who grafts. Mose is an impact player, and he has done exactly that while he has been here. We will be a lot worse without him

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:01 pm  

This team is showing a great deal of guts. They've been tremendously resilient, physically and mentally, to be going in at HT 6-6.

But what they've got in guts they seriously lack in smarts. The usual penalties are there, often for the most pointless things (e.g. Jones pushing the man over at the PTB on tackle 4 when we already had our line set). The two best attacking territorial sets we've had have been squandered on tackle 1. And where we've had chances to break away we've bombed the pass.

We're still in the game, but we don't half make it difficult for ourselves.

Re: 19 man squad v Wigan : Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:19 pm  

There's a real difference in defence. Wig and line is much faster to get up. Saints are walking three forward then standing. We seem to be gifting them yards, perhaps because we think it'll keep our defensive line more organised.