Re: Broncos v Saints update : Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:47 am  

jaybs wrote:

It was annoying listening to the coverage on BBC Five Live Sports Xtra at the Etihad in Manchester, it is wrong when they put on amateur presenters such as the one from BBC Radio Merseyside, but even worse still when the co-commentator is someone from the St Helens Club who is such a die hard he would never see anything if it hit him in the face other than Saints!

Rooney is employed by the BBC and therefore is not amateur. Mike Appleton is indeed the Saints media manager but I thought he did a good job given that he had an uncomfortable tightrope to walk. Employed by the Saints, he wouldn't have been able to criticise the Saints in the way that a neutral could do. The problem lay with 5Live deciding to use Radio Merseyside's coverage rather than cover the game themselves as obviously Radio Merseyside is going to be biased towards Saints, who are after all your home town team.

London won. Why moan?

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:11 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Rooney is employed by the BBC and therefore is not amateur. Mike Appleton is indeed the Saints media manager but I thought he did a good job given that he had an uncomfortable tightrope to walk. Employed by the Saints, he wouldn't have been able to criticise the Saints in the way that a neutral could do. The problem lay with 5Live deciding to use Radio Merseyside's coverage rather than cover the game themselves as obviously Radio Merseyside is going to be biased towards Saints, who are after all your home town team.

London won. Why moan?

He's a Northern (judging by bio) RL fan!

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:44 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Rooney is employed by the BBC and therefore is not amateur. Mike Appleton is indeed the Saints media manager but I thought he did a good job given that he had an uncomfortable tightrope to walk. Employed by the Saints, he wouldn't have been able to criticise the Saints in the way that a neutral could do. The problem lay with 5Live deciding to use Radio Merseyside's coverage rather than cover the game themselves as obviously Radio Merseyside is going to be biased towards Saints, who are after all your home town team.

London won. Why moan?

I moan because Rooney like French are amateur! & they do the image of the game of RL no good! I do not doubt Alan Rooney's commitment, but I stand by they are amateur. When the game was being broadcast on national radio, it should have at least been considered to have someone neutral and informed BBC Radio Merseyside of this, there must have been journalists at the game.

Yes we did win! so no way am I moaning about that, just a shame I was at the West Ham game, not seen enough matches when we have beaten or drawn with!

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:35 pm  

Great game, well worth the even longer than usual journey into London (cheers South Eastern) even if we hadn't won.

Nothing flashy just solid rugby league. Attack with a deep line, work hard in defence, no silly errors, 100% effort for the full 80 minutes- simples.

Can't really fault any of the individual performances for once, certainly didn't notice anyone have a shocker. Gower played as well as I've seen him for us, Witt pretty lively. Forwards all solid, Bailey especially I thought was outstanding in defence, noticed him make big tackles a few times and straight up to make another from the marker. Seeing some improvements come into Dixon's game the last couple of weeks as well, better under the high ball and in defence.

Good to see Sts fans down in number and appreciating their depleted team's efforts yesterday at the final whistle, was half expecting them to be a bit more hostile given their recent run of results and given some of the comments from their threads on here.

Bring on Hull Friday, it's winnable if we play sensible rugby for 80 minutes again for sure.

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:47 pm  

I don't want to get too carried away about a win against a severely under-strength Saints side but it was a pleasing performance certainly. Witt was excellent - tackled really well, which was noticeable. We certainly didn't look anywhere near as defensively porous and didn't make the same level of errors as in previous games.

As it is, it's just nice to finally chalk up a home win.

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:30 am  

2,839 according to the BBC. Is that the highest gate this season?

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:52 am  

Blazingsmoke Blue wrote:

2,839 according to the BBC. Is that the highest gate this season?

Not a lot to shout about if it was

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:56 am  

Blazingsmoke Blue wrote:

2,839 according to the BBC. Is that the highest gate this season?

No, it's the second biggest after the opening day loss to Widnes....it is however, the lowest EVER gate for the visit of St Helens to the capital to take on London in the SL era, is down 43% on last years gate which was out biggest of 2012, is the first St H game in the capital v London that has a crowd that starts with a "2" and is, in my honest opinion, another example of how far the club have fallen under its current management.

7 games into the season and we are averaging 1,980 a game!

At least we won eh

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:37 am  

BUT it wasn't the lowest gate in SL this weekend!!!! Take a bow, Salford.

Re: Broncos v Saints update : Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:44 am  

wire quin wrote:

Great win
The new guy is poor. I dont think we will see him again

He played right centre?

If so, who next on that merry-go-round?