Re: Saints Home : Sat Jul 31, 2021 2:50 pm
Sat quiet after the Hudds and Leeds game, read alot of the posts on here and alot of common sense has been spoken. To me we have a number of problems but no quick fix to resolve any of them. It's obvious Hodgson doesn't trust certain players so is persevering with players out of form hoping they play their way into it.What is obvious is without Connor, creativity is missing he is the missing link in attack. Take him or Reynolds out it falls flat.
We must be the slowest team in super league we have absolutely no pace across the team, except a few.
The hooking department is stuck in the early 2000's, the hooking roles changed, we haven't evolved, the speed around the ruck from Leeming/Dywer showed a huge defiency in our team.
Houghton a 20 minute backup hooker nothing more
Johnstone isn't trusted. New hooker needed, short term fix is Shaul or Wynne.
Bowden, what's happened? Looks disinterested has he been told to find another club? Brown has to play why doesn't Hodgson trust him? New prop needed, hopefully the rumours are true.
Fonua needs to be moved on, plays with too much ego, 3 brainfarts against Leeds all fuelled by bravado hunts the Hollywood highlight reel at the expense of his coach's instructions, huge waste of cap and no pace.
Drop Faraimo for Vulikajapani, the lad was our best player in his last two games, scored 3 tries, then dropped for a guy who's leaving, nobody's mentioned Faraimo break where he had swift and Carlos either side, guaranteed try he bombed due to his selfishness, his heads in Cass I'm afraid.
The attack was clunky I thought we were terrible in getting players set for the attack, no runners near the line like myler and Newman.
Think Hodgson needs to be brave now and realise some players arnt being professional and have the wrong attitudes, and play the likes of Vulikajapani, Brown instead.
Big squad transition needed but then how much are Brett's hands tied regarding finances, we really need to offload some over paid earners and find some shrewd signings.
I'd be trying to move Bowden, Fonua, Mau, Johnstone, Matongo on and using the quota spots/wages to upgrade hooker/prop and second row.
Obviously not as easy as that though.
On the plus side Connor, Taylor, Shaul (hooker), Savelio will make a big difference shortly.