[Mild Rover]

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:17 am  

Dave K. wrote:

We all know the Derby will be tight, if Lunt is back that will be a huge boost, Mcgure out will really hurt you as he really makes the difference in your attacking structure. We have bee really hot and miss, hopefully Houghton will be back, as we have really missed him.

There’s a gap in quality between us and the teams i’d expect to finish in the top 6, which includes Hull. Natural enough for a newly promoted team. Our conditioning over strength and work rate over strike approach arguably makes it even tougher to bridge the gap. With a bit of luck and some complacency on the part of the opposition, we’ll hopefully pick up the odd shock result along the way. However, I doubt Radford will allow his team to fall into that trap this week, and your strengths are pretty much a perfect match for our weaknesses, sadly.

I genuinely hate to be negative but, while I expect us to have a dig and our spirit seems good, I fear you’ll roll over us.

On a more positive note, we don’t seem anywhere near as dappy and prone to calamitous collapse as in the latter years of our first spell in SL.

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:53 am  

We were better than the scoreline reads but no doubt best team won. Derby week and fans will go through every emotion between now and KO.Are we underdogs? Probably but we are at home and we haven't won a live Derby in a fair while. Who knows?

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:01 am  

Mild Rover wrote:

There’s a gap in quality between us and the teams i’d expect to finish in the top 6, which includes Hull. Natural enough for a newly promoted team. Our conditioning over strength and work rate over strike approach arguably makes it even tougher to bridge the gap. With a bit of luck and some complacency on the part of the opposition, we’ll hopefully pick up the odd shock result along the way. However, I doubt Radford will allow his team to fall into that trap this week, and your strengths are pretty much a perfect match for our weaknesses, sadly.

I genuinely hate to be negative but, while I expect us to have a dig and our spirit seems good, I fear you’ll roll over us.

On a more positive note, we don’t seem anywhere near as dappy and prone to calamitous collapse as in the latter years of our first spell in SL.

In my 40 years watching Derbys I have learned never to take them lightly and expect the unexpected its a game we need to win for the points alone I'm sure it will be a nail biter as always, I saw a picture of Lunts injury and I would be amazed if he's back over Easter unless the club av no choice speedy recovery to young George brilliant young player who deserves better luck

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:30 am  

Whats been said about the Saints game is true. The score was harsh, injuries were hard to take, but the best team won. We put plenty of effort in but blew chances when they came our way.
On to next week, and once again the half back situation rears its head and we do not have enough cover. With McGuire out who do we put in. I have made my opinions clear on this before, as much as I want all our players to succeed, in this league I fear Marsh is not the answer and too anonymous.I hope he proves me wrong but having seen plenty of minutes from the kid, in my opinion he is not the answer we need to stand a chance, I want it to work out for him but I think his long term future lies elsewhere.
What do we do, Quinlan to half back for speed and elusiveness? Dagger or Moss to full back? Whatever, this need sorting.TS is the boss and we have to trust his judgement, but its frustrating when something like this was always going to happen.
When we lost Campese and Kelly, look what happened.. here,s hoping for some luck, we are going to need it, but we must back the boys and get behind them. Plus Heffernan and Lawler, you coudn,t make it up!

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:28 am  

a fair summary of the game by all, a bit of a bruising game , competed with them for large parts, a couple of smarts got us , as long as we can field a decent squad when it matters later on we will be ok, one bonus is we wont be playing saints in the middle 8s, mulhearn and lawler until his injury continue to impress ,a lot more optimistic than last year,, 3 or 4 players away from being permenant top 8 side ,just grit your teeth for the next few weeks, we should be ok come September,

Re: Saints : Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:36 am  

rover 2000 wrote:

a fair summary of the game by all, a bit of a bruising game , competed with them for large parts, a couple of smarts got us , as long as we can field a decent squad when it matters later on we will be ok, one bonus is we wont be playing saints in the middle 8s, mulhearn and lawler until his injury continue to impress ,a lot more optimistic than last year,, 3 or 4 players away from being permenant top 8 side ,just grit your teeth for the next few weeks, we should be ok come September,

That's how I see it as well.A long road ahead but right people steering the club

Re: Saints : Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:47 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

That's how I see it as well.A long road ahead but right people steering the club

The right people who saw us relegated as they didn’t strengthen the side when needed , apart from Peacock having to eat Humble pie and lace up his boots .

Re: Saints : Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:33 am  

I suppose you could look at it that way? Kellys antics. Injuries to the 3 big earners .Chesters preseason and incompetence (which seems to be cured)Peacocks refusal to play Kelly which morally was correct looks expensive looking back.Walkers dramas.Websters appointment and finally who could ever account for those last 2 minutes in MPG? 18-10 up and job done it seemed? All these things happened under our same leadership and they felt the pain as much as any fan because at base level that's what they are.Alongside businessmen with own hard earned sunk in I'd suggest they felt it more than anyone? This topic has been done to death and no board should be beyond criticism if deserved but NH and RC are golden in every KR Fans eyes that I know

Re: Saints : Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:40 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

I suppose you could look at it that way? Kellys antics. Injuries to the 3 big earners .Chesters preseason and incompetence (which seems to be cured)Peacocks refusal to play Kelly which morally was correct looks expensive looking back.Walkers dramas.Websters appointment and finally who could ever account for those last 2 minutes in MPG? 18-10 up and job done it seemed? All these things happened under our same leadership and they felt the pain as much as any fan because at base level that's what they are.Alongside businessmen with own hard earned sunk in I'd suggest they felt it more than anyone? This topic has been done to death and no board should be beyond criticism if deserved but NH and RC are golden in every KR Fans eyes that I know

That was a decent post Craig. I never knew it was Peacock who stopped Kelly playing , thought that would be down to Tim , unless it was taken out of his hands for disciplinary reasons .

But I would have though with the importance of the game and ramifications to follow Tim as head coach would have pulled rank from a team perspective .

Not looking for a disagreement with you , I genuinely never knew it was Peacocks call . I don’t know why the club employed him in the first place ,

Re: Saints : Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:49 pm  

Sheens wasn't in situ then.Webster was caretaker as I recall it?