Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:48 pm  

For me in the basis of tonight Thornley has dropped further down the pecking order.

We should be blooding Eckersley if we are missing our starting centres.

Thornley really was horrible tonight.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:48 pm  

From what ive seen French at stand off is not working French was more of a threat on the wing given space. Peet has a dilemma what to do about this.Look back to last season with French on the wing tries galore .Miski has given MP a headache playing as he is where to play Field and French to me better on the wing its a situation where we have too many players plying for positions Field not good enough for stand off neither is French Miski playing well so not to be dropped ??

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:51 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Not sure it's anything to do with the semi final. Felt like a standard Wakey away performance.

Not sure if we change our preparations because of the "facilities" but for some reason we seem to really struggle there in pretty much every aspect of the game.

Yep sorry. For some reason I thought the semi was next week.

It has 0 consequence on the performance today given it’s over 2 weeks away, which makes the performance even worse!

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:52 pm  

jonh wrote:

For me in the basis of tonight Thornley has dropped further down the pecking order.

We should be blooding Eckersley if we are missing our starting centres.

Thornley really was horrible tonight.

It's a shame as from his form in the reserves it looked like Thornley would be a great back up option but he's let Peet down badly in his last couple of games.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:55 pm  

We have a stand off on our books why do we not play him Rocky?

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:10 pm  

cadoo wrote:

Lee Briers is a huge miss. He is doing very well down under by all reports. I hope Wane brings him into the England setup. I think our coaching staff could use that fresh set of eyes again from outside the club. What are Peet, Lockers and Leuluai going to bring new to the club… as much as we all love them! Briers transformed our attack last season.

Biggest test of Peet these next few weeks. A few bad results and we are out the cup and languishing outside the play offs…

job for the boys

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:12 pm  

Peet needs to mix them up. Bevan to start at 6 then 2nd half Jai goes there with French at 1. See if that can produce the results we need. It would give the opposition something to face they wouldn't expect.

Listening to Milko tonight the difference between winning and losing was discipline, or the lack of it. Hitting the kicker with seconds to go on the clock sounded dreadful and ultimately lost us the game.

Looks like we could be missing Havard for the next couple of weeks too.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:23 pm  

Pie_Eyter wrote:

Glad iv'e got WW69 on ignore. He will be knocking about when Cbeebies goes off tomorrow.

As fellow Saints fan I agree about him blokes a idiot

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:34 pm  

Maybe French on the wing and Miski in the centres is not out of the question?

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:36 pm  

That was hard to watch. Attack is not a bit fluent. Wakefield through shape at us all night and we couldn’t respond in the same vein. Our line speed was woefully slow for most of the game. Thornley and Smith had a mare and whoever put in the late hit with a minute to go owes his team mates a big apology. I hate going to Wakefield - the facilities for away fans (like Headingley) are abysmal. Only a win there can sweeten the pill but on tonight’s performance we look like we couldn’t be bothered.