Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 4:18 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

To be fair, I don't think Brough is 100% yet. It was clearly a gamble playing him so soon.

If he can’t tackle yet, he shouldn’t have played. That first try pretty much set the afternoon up for Saints.

And now our dismal run in this competition continues.

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 4:26 pm  

Willzay wrote:

If he can’t tackle yet, he shouldn’t have played. That first try pretty much set the afternoon up for Saints.

And now our dismal run in this competition continues.

My question isn’t about Brough being ready or Chester’s decision to play him when he clearly couldn’t tackle using his injured hand.

My question is that if a clearly undercooked and unfit Brough is still viewed as better than our other halfback options then why have we signed those players?

For the last 4 or 5 Trinity have desperately needed QUALITY halfback cover yet we continue to sign back rowers. If we want to kick on and challenge the latter stages of the competitions then we need to bite the bullet and pay the price for a top quality halfback.
Anything else is playing at it and giving lip service, nothing more!

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 4:38 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

My question isn’t about Brough being ready or Chester’s decision to play him when he clearly couldn’t tackle using his injured hand.

My question is that if a clearly undercooked and unfit Brough is still viewed as better than our other halfback options then why have we signed those players?

For the last 4 or 5 Trinity have desperately needed QUALITY halfback cover yet we continue to sign back rowers. If we want to kick on and challenge the latter stages of the competitions then we need to bite the bullet and pay the price for a top quality halfback.
Anything else is playing at it and giving lip service, nothing more!

Totally agree with you there avenger.


The only person on the field today that looked like creating anything was a bloke in his very late 30's and not fully fit. I think we are taking a massive risk if we are going to rely totally on him for one more season. Because other than Fifita its hard to think who will create anything.

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:07 pm  

It was obvious we'd probably get well beaten today. Already people are reading more into it than necessary.

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:28 pm  

Bulls would have beaten Saints today.

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:45 pm  

Bulls4Champs wrote:

Bulls would have beaten Saints today.

Good one.

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:27 pm  

Yes agree

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:24 pm  

I know Saints were the better side and deserved their win but watching it back on BBC it was a right Saints love fest from the pundits , sickly

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:39 pm  

Big lads mate wrote:

I know Saints were the better side and deserved their win but watching it back on BBC it was a right Saints love fest from the pundits , sickly

Don’t matter the broadcaster they are always up the Aris’ of the big clubs but fair enough today I suppose

Re: Mission impossible ? Saints (A) Challenge Cup : Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:42 pm  

Big lads mate wrote:

I know Saints were the better side and deserved their win but watching it back on BBC it was a right Saints love fest from the pundits , sickly

BBCstarted with a Saints montage, nothing about Wakefield. Build up was 90% Saints. Got sick of listening to Dave Woods and Davies constant drooling over Saints. Kear was the only one really coming up with some positive comments for us. Amor on tv panel, no one from Wakey. Don't want special treatment, just a balance.