Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to town.. : Sun Feb 23, 2025 10:56 am  

Looking forward to this one. Saints look a real attacking threat, hopefully we'll have a few numbers back. Here's to another top game and big crowd.

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:33 am  

On the face of it, many felt our first 4 fixtures were a killer, but I do think Saints and Warrington are coming at a good time for us.

Saints could come complacent, and Knowles is a big miss for them. Murphy too of course, which takes away that threat as Bennison looked like he was just filling in last night. Then Wire off the back of a tough game, a night out, and a flight back from Vegas. I like our chances.

Obviously it’d be nice for us to get a few players back, but with a 10 day turnaround we should get Trueman and Hall fit, possibly Atoni and Hood too. Atoni is a big addition just to lighten the load and keep that punch once Uele subs off.

Plus, a courageous defeat last week doesn’t seem to have dampened the mood whatsoever. Don’t see why this one shouldn’t sell out too. Buzzing.

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:46 am  

Getting those (or similar) out at pitch side this week is a must for some good SM clicks.

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Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:49 am  

Funnily enough I noticed Cas had similar chairs in their dug out area last night.
Shows how we have pulled away from them both on and off the field.

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:37 pm  

I suppose in many ways this is the start of the real season , what I mean is that Round One at Headingley was a local derby and our first game back in Super League .

Round Two the first home game and a real event feel to it with the floodlights , live on Sky and the fireworks .

It's down to the nitty gritty of Super League now , the long slog if you will .

Saints come with hardly a glove laid on them in two rounds whilst we've had two titanic battles and are up to speed .

Nobody's thrown anything at Saints yet and I've seen both their games , Welsby can have the dancing feet all he wants if nobody is getting him to ground .

Again in the middles , neither Salford or Cas had the physicality or ability to trouble Saints .

The usual Saints are back doing the rounds on the BBC Sport website comments section .

The days of Saints rocking up at Belle Vue and helping themselves to two easy points are long gone .

Bring it on , respect yes , fear , absolutely not .

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:04 pm  

Like it’s been stated earlier, we have 4 of the supposedly best teams on the bounce who are expected to challenge for top spot, we’ve beaten one should have beaten KR, our confidence should be sky high and never fear anyone, Saints played a toothless Cas side, Wakey will be a different proposition, hopefully I sadly won’t be at the saints game as we are in Vegas but will be keeping a close eye on my phone

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:18 pm  

Do us a favour and get them hammered on the Saturday night will you!

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:31 pm  

Butcher wrote:

Do us a favour and get them hammered on the Saturday night will you!

Not at them prices

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:10 pm  

My thoughts are that Saints have had an easy ride their first two games. We come out with the same resilience in defence and intensity and focus and there’s no reason why we can’t beat them.

As others have said, Saints haven’t been tested. They have shipped points but they’ve had to do absolutely zip other than run through the middle vs Cas. The missed tackle count from Cas was huge.

There are a couple of key danger areas we need to manage:

Wellsby is a threat and we need to be ensuring to watch him both in open back field after a kick and whether probing the line looking to draw a man and pass to the edges. We haven’t been shooting out in defence so if we continue not to do that unless it’s tactical then I’m confident we can manage that.

I noticed they are putting on Walmsley and Paasi and they bring good go forward. That needs to be stunted with good strong defence for the spells they are on together.

We should believe in ourselves though. Absolutely no reason we can’t win with a similar effort to the first two games. As many people have said, we play as we have been and we will win more than we lose.

Re: Dust off the canteen chairs, The Saints are coming to to : Sun Feb 23, 2025 6:40 pm  

HKR were sat on a row of plastic chairs at the weekend in front of the new seats in the dugout!