Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 6:57 pm  

Wildmoggy wrote:

Sorry, but I can't see how you can think last night's performance would be good enough to beat any Super league team!! We created virtually nothing, Saints in the second half were as bad as I've ever seen a Saints team, their poor performance over the 80 minutes kept the score down massively.

Just thought saints played their usual game of being fast off the mark , shut us down before we had a chance , which they do on a regular basis . Thought we defended well in general and hopefully will have more time to create ... and hopefully Miller will be back . Not many teams create much or win at Saints . Like I say not pretending there are no problems .

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Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 6:59 pm  

cocker wrote:

Yep ... get all that . But if we play against HullKR /London like last night we will win . Our defence was much improved and yes Saints snuffed our our attack just like they do with most teams . I’m not pretending all is fine , far from it and yes certain players are underperforming , but changing coach etc now will do no good . Imo . Plus the constant berating of Chester will do nothing ... hope we can behind them all next week and help get that win we need . Hopefully Miller will be back ... not bothered who he replaces Brough or Hampshire .

I have to agree.
Some of the doom mongers have got to the point where they can't see anything good.
In actual fact, apart from the occasional loss, Sts haven't been restricted to 26 in hardly any games this season.

Our attack needs improvement but it's getting there slowly.
Last night we held Sts out for a long time. That's a massive improvement.

Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:13 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I have to agree.
Some of the doom mongers have got to the point where they can't see anything good.
In actual fact, apart from the occasional loss, Sts haven't been restricted to 26 in hardly any games this season.

Our attack needs improvement but it's getting there slowly.
Last night we held Sts out for a long time. That's a massive improvement.

Look at the players sts had missing PT, that’s why the score was kept down. That and saints dropped to our level of ball control in the second half.

Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:23 pm  

I get that Saints ad people missing .... different scenario to us though . They’ve played virtually a full fit squad all season ... we’ve had players missing weeks/months that’s meant we’ve been backing up , playing unfit or shattered players rather than resting them etc ....our pack is shattered .

Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:33 pm  

Tricky2309 wrote:

Look at the players sts had missing PT, that’s why the score was kept down. That and saints dropped to our level of ball control in the second half.

Bet we had more of our starting 17 out than saints did

Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:19 pm  

eastardsley wrote:

Bet we had more of our starting 17 out than saints did

Probably about the same number of those out as saints who would actually get in the first 17

Re: gets some perspective : Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:56 pm  

Injury excuse has worn very thin. Since the second London game, we’ve been getting players back. And playing worse.

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Re: gets some perspective : Sun Aug 04, 2019 12:16 am  

And clearly it takes time to gel into a team again and as Chester has pointed out, many are playing injured because there is nobody else.

Re: gets some perspective : Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:59 am  

cocker wrote:

I get that Saints ad people missing .... different scenario to us though . They’ve played virtually a full fit squad all season ... we’ve had players missing weeks/months that’s meant we’ve been backing up , playing unfit or shattered players rather than resting them etc ....our pack is shattered .

shattered my backside they’ve just had some time off and remember this is the best SQUAD we’ve had. The game Friday was awful I’ve said previously the effort was there but let’s be right sts we’re in first gear and also made a stack of errors. Excuses don’t deliver 2 points

Re: gets some perspective : Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:54 am  

I meant shattered in terms of players playing every week injured or not , and the likes of Kirmond, /Randall in the past not managing big minutes meaning more for the rest of the pack . I’m not defending everything/everybody .