Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:05 pm  

Luppylad wrote:

I would say we had more players out than saints to be honest.i havent been today due to working so cant comment on game, what i will say its dissappointing to throw a decent lead away in those conditions,also hope jorge is ok i hear he took bad injury

Saints had Dodd, Hopoate, Makinson, Percival, Matautia and Knowles, all regulars when not injured or suspended. Saints played their worst performance of the season; the weather was the same for both sides. Ref equally bad for both sides. Fair play to Wakefield, a goal kicker would have been a winner.. They deserved to win in 80 minutes.

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Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:16 pm  

C K Watt wrote:

Saints had Dodd, Hopoate, Makinson, Percival, Matautia and Knowles, all regulars when not injured or suspended. Saints played their worst performance of the season; the weather was the same for both sides. Ref equally bad for both sides. Fair play to Wakefield, a goal kicker would have been a winner.. They deserved to win in 80 minutes.

He's still right. We had more missing and you had Hurrel as a replacement so hardly a step down.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:29 pm  

Centre as a position is killing is. Poor read from the scrum by Gaskill and and a dropped ball from Croft were game changers and lead to the 2 tries.

So frustrating when on paper with everyone available it’s a fairly strong area.

Got to start Batch there moving forward.

We have plenty of middle forwards who can play 13 but the lack of quality at centre is killing us.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:30 pm  

Luppylad wrote:

I would say we had more players out than saints to be honest.i havent been today due to working so cant comment on game, what i will say its dissappointing to throw a decent lead away in those conditions,also hope jorge is ok i hear he took bad injury

But what i can say for deffo the saints players one was lees should look at NFL for the block for drop goal made worse by the fact they dropped the ball

I'd be amazed if Taufua's injury is anything other than a broken arm. If so with 6 weeks left i'd guess thats his season done.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:32 pm  

PopTart wrote:

He's still right. We had more missing and you had Hurrel as a replacement so hardly a step down.

Hurrell on a cheap contract has been our buy of the season. But that doesn’t negate that we are missing 6 regulars, and with both Dodd and Hopoate out, we’re short in the spine. Bennison was second behind Welsby (who got the plaudits for the winning DG) in the Saints MoM vote on Twitter, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t miss Makinson etc. I don’t know who Wakefield were missing but I said from the offset it wasn’t going to be an easy game. My only disappointment is we didn’t get to see Pemberton, but Bell played his part.

Also to clear up the attitude thing - Saints whole first team had 3 days off following Huddersfield (Paasi mentioned it in his MoM interview vs Huddersfield). There were definitely some dropped balls and miscommunications as a result of that. That was Saints choice though and Wakefield can only play what was put in front of them on the day.

None of that takes away from a competitive performance from Wakefield, and as fans it should rightly be applauded. A draw on 80 minutes was a fair result for the performances on the day. Thems the rules unfortunately and its worked in our favour today.

One note of caution though. The Warrington fans were very pleased with their efforts against us as well, only losing by 2 and full of hope moving forwards. They then lost the next 5 I think. Put in that performance again and you’ll get some results, but actually putting that performance in again is the key.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:38 pm  

C K Watt wrote:

Saints had Dodd, Hopoate, Makinson, Percival, Matautia and Knowles, all regulars when not injured or suspended. Saints played their worst performance of the season; the weather was the same for both sides. Ref equally bad for both sides. Fair play to Wakefield, a goal kicker would have been a winner.. They deserved to win in 80 minutes.

Although i would say not as good as yours we had 1st choice FB, 1st and 2nd choice wingers, 1st 2nd 3rd choice centres 2nd and 3rd choice hookers and 1st choice back rower out, plus others so yeah more out

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:39 pm  

Luppylad wrote:

Although i would say not as good as yours we had 1st choice FB, 1st and 2nd choice wingers, 1st 2nd 3rd choice centres 2nd and 3rd choice hookers and 1st choice back rower out, plus others so yeah more out

That equates to 15 out??

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:47 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

That equates to 15 out??

Nah realistically we were missing 7 I’d say who would most likely be in the 17 today.

Jowitt, TJ, Tupou, Lyne, Hall, Pitts, Kay.

Was some effort considering we practically had a starting back line out and a few more. Saints have more quality in depth.

It was a cruel way to lose a game but a very enjoyable game.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:51 pm  

With regards golden points we are actually no worse off this season even if it was one point each.

Re: Saints up next : Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:51 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

That equates to 15 out??

Jowitt
Johnstone
Lyne
Hall
Kaye
Pitts

These are the main absentees in my view.