: Mon May 11, 2009 1:00 pm  

Thunder blasts BBC http://thunderrugby.com/news_article.php?id=134 I'd have to agree with their chairman, obviously we're favourites, but we havn't won yet.

Thunder blasts BBC http://thunderrugby.com/news_article.php?id=134 I'd have to agree with their chairman, obviously we're favourites, but we havn't won yet.

: Mon May 11, 2009 1:04 pm  

Dux wrote:

He looks like a big lad. Obviously been eating his taro root.

And his sweet potatoes?

: Mon May 11, 2009 4:16 pm  

He is a big lad - and a bl**dy good bloke.

For short, he does answer to "T" as well as other abbreviations.

N

: Mon May 11, 2009 5:29 pm  

Saint Simon wrote: Thunder blasts BBC http://thunderrugby.com/news_article.php?id=134 I'd have to agree with their chairman, obviously we're favourites, but we havn't won yet. It's not good of Dave Woods to say that kind of thing. I know we were all relieved to get Thunder instead of, say, Wigan, but that doesn't mean to say Thunder are going to be little lambs. They get at least two NRL guys joining them this week, possibly with a third fresh out of NRL comp, so if they have a meaty team and a real desire to do some giant killing (which is exactly how the draw should have been presented), then we may well find this is a banana skin for us, especially given our recent form. Remember, we are the only team so far to have been almost try-less against Celtic. Sure, they probably upped their game for us, but I think the only matches this season that have looked easy for us have been Castleford and Wakefield. All the rest have been difficult either because we've made them difficult through our poor play or the opposition has come at us all guns blazing.

Saint Simon wrote: Thunder blasts BBC http://thunderrugby.com/news_article.php?id=134 I'd have to agree with their chairman, obviously we're favourites, but we havn't won yet. It's not good of Dave Woods to say that kind of thing. I know we were all relieved to get Thunder instead of, say, Wigan, but that doesn't mean to say Thunder are going to be little lambs. They get at least two NRL guys joining them this week, possibly with a third fresh out of NRL comp, so if they have a meaty team and a real desire to do some giant killing (which is exactly how the draw should have been presented), then we may well find this is a banana skin for us, especially given our recent form. Remember, we are the only team so far to have been almost try-less against Celtic. Sure, they probably upped their game for us, but I think the only matches this season that have looked easy for us have been Castleford and Wakefield. All the rest have been difficult either because we've made them difficult through our poor play or the opposition has come at us all guns blazing.

: Mon May 11, 2009 6:12 pm  

I hope Woods doesn't end up with egg on his face! Or that the Saints team show similar disrespect on the field.

: Mon May 11, 2009 7:44 pm  

I'd like to see Eastmond and Wheeler at 6 & 7 for Gateshead

: Mon May 11, 2009 8:04 pm  

To be fair to Dave Woods he actually said that Saints "almost got a bye" but he probably shouldn't have said anything remotely like that.

: Tue May 12, 2009 8:59 am  

Silly comment by Woods, but realistically it is very close to the truth.

We will dispatch of Gateshead with minimum fuss and it in honsty we will probably rack up quite a score.

I would expect better from Dave Woods and I can understand the chairman being quite upset about the BBC comments.

: Tue May 12, 2009 9:09 am  

eddiewaringsflatcap wrote:

Silly comment by Woods, but realistically it is very close to the truth.

We will dispatch of Gateshead with minimum fuss and it in honsty we will probably rack up quite a score.

I would expect better from Dave Woods and I can understand the chairman being quite upset about the BBC comments.

That's it, its probably true but shows a bit of disrespect for all he has done in Gateshead