: Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:25 am  

Saint_Jen wrote:

I think you're missing my point.
I'm in no way blaming Ade soley for our loss last night. The whole team was a shambes, but we did see Ade's weaknesses exposed and that needs addressing, along with the weakenesses of the whole squad.

I don't think you are blaming him solely for the loss, but whilst he does have weaknesses, as all players do, I think you're missing my point that it's not solely down to him that tries were scored down that side tonight. They were down to the defensive team down that side failing, whilst he is part of that team he is certainly not on his own.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:09 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

I don't think you are blaming him solely for the loss, but whilst he does have weaknesses, as all players do, I think you're missing my point that it's not solely down to him that tries were scored down that side tonight. They were down to the defensive team down that side failing, whilst he is part of that team he is certainly not on his own.

All this point missing is too much!!!!

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:14 pm  

Bill_Barlow wrote:

Idiot.

better that than the village one.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:48 pm  

Jesus... 4 pages of utter garbage.

He was left exposed by a 2nd rower and a centre that weren't there. I'd like to see some of the people calling Ade on here go 1-on-3 and see how they do.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:58 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

He was left exposed by a 2nd rower and a centre that weren't there. I'd like to see some of the people calling Ade on here go 1-on-3 and see how they do.

Well, I for one would be running as fast as my little legs could take me in the opposite direction!

(Mind you, that would kind of fit in with that bizarre backwards move we did at some point during the first half so maybe I wouldn't have looked too out of place on Friday. )

Our defence isn't as good as it was under Daniel Anderson but apart from Ade wandering away from his spot sometimes this season and letting in the odd try as a result, I can't see how he was any more or less responsible than anyone else on the pitch for our naff defensive performance on Friday night.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:00 pm  

Our defence, on the whole, under Potter has been excellent.

One dodgy display and suddenly we cannot catch, we cannot kick, we cannot tackle, we give too many penalties away and the players are all impotent with buck teeth and 4 eyes.

This thread is ridiculous and the amount of people jumping on some badly informed band wagon is fuggin' ridonkulous.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:05 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Our defence, on the whole, under Potter has been excellent.

One dodgy display and suddenly we cannot catch, we cannot kick, we cannot tackle, we give too many penalties away and the players are all impotent with buck teeth and 4 eyes.

This thread is ridiculous and the amount of people jumping on some badly informed band wagon is fuggin' ridonkulous.

I second that!

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:30 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Our defence, on the whole, under Potter has been excellent.

One dodgy display and suddenly we cannot catch, we cannot kick, we cannot tackle, we give too many penalties away and the players are all impotent with buck teeth and 4 eyes.

This thread is ridiculous and the amount of people jumping on some badly informed band wagon is fuggin' ridonkulous.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:32 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Our defence, on the whole, under Potter has been excellent..

Our goal line/scramble defence has been pretty much but not further in. That's been more haphazard (in matches other than on Friday I mean - Friday was just pretty dismal all round).

Our discipline generally has been noticeably poorer all season. That might not matter to you but it does to me because we give away pentalties and we make our job ten times harder than it needs to be and puts us at risk of losing more games. Damn shame really.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:26 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Our goal line/scramble defence has been pretty much but not further in. That's been more haphazard (in matches other than on Friday I mean - Friday was just pretty dismal all round).

Our discipline generally has been noticeably poorer all season. That might not matter to you but it does to me because we give away pentalties and we make our job ten times harder than it needs to be and puts us at risk of losing more games. Damn shame really.

The idea that we were angels under Anderson is a fallacy, look at the number of penalties we gave away under his stewardship.