Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:21 pm  

Uncharacteristic read from O'Connor made Mbye look a lot better than he is.

Leeds lacked a bit of composure in the second half - we had position and opportunities but a little panic crept in that we've not had so far this season.

Roberts took his try well, but in the second half didn't seem to want to back himself in a couple of half-chances. Wasn't his fault the ball was blatantly stolen. I guess these things can go against you when you don't have momentum.

Not sure how Matautia stays on the field after taking Bentley off the ball.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:28 pm  

I’ll be surprised if Frawley isn’t out of the team by the halfway point in the season.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:34 pm  

Fwiw-Thought the Matautia hit was pretty brilliant! Fraction late, so penalty sufficed. Nothing more.
Lack of pace in the team did stand out…..

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:38 pm  

The Eclipse wrote:

I’ll be surprised if Frawley isn’t out of the team by the halfway point in the season.

Don’t rate him, but to be replaced by?

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:01 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Don’t rate him, but to be replaced by?

Anyone who can catch, pass and kick as that is all he does..

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:02 pm  

Frawley made an error but other than that was ok.

We basically got beat by a better side in the night, they nullified our threat in the second half snd their defence kept them in it in the first.

First half was electric and i think any itger team bar maybe Wigan we go in with s comfortable lead.

2 things changed that game imo. Bell coming on when oledski went off

Ackers going off, that read for Mbye’s try by oconner was atrocious but he’s still learning

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:02 pm  

Talking of getting rid of players after 5 games is way premature. Even Sinfield put a few out on the full in his time at Leeds, and wasn't much of a threat with the ball either.

Who is available? Knee-jerker's favourite Brad Dwyer? Sensational Sutcliffe?

Frawley reminds me of Dunneman in some respects, although very much early days. He's no world beater but moves the team around, and has more defensive heart than Sezer and Austin put together.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:03 pm  

If we can put together this week's 1st half against saints & last weeks 2nd half against Leigh we'd look one heck of a team. For me we didn't turn our pressure into points tonight where as saints did that was the only difference

Lachie Miller is looking more electric for us each week can't wait to see him in summer on some dry tracks.

If we get Momirovski & Lisone back next week and can take our chances I'd back us to dump Saints out of cup.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:04 pm  

Thought it was a very high standard game. Credit to Saints for hanging tough when we were stretching them all over the place in the first half. I'm not normally one to bag the coach but I thought his selection of Edgell on the bench was big factor in the loss. As the game went on we needed a bit more impact off the bench and we were never going to get that with a teenage full back. Very odd. Let's see what we can learn from this next week.

Re: RD 5 | St Helens (H) : Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:08 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Thought it was a very high standard game. Credit to Saints for hanging tough when we were stretching them all over the place in the first half. I'm not normally one to bag the coach but I thought his selection of Edgell on the bench was big factor in the loss. As the game went on we needed a bit more impact off the bench and we were never going to get that with a teenage full back. Very odd. Let's see what we can learn from this next week.

Edgell was meant to be 18th man, Ruan was ill, so Donno was meant to be 17th. Croft wasn’t 100% (think there's been illness through the group) so we needed cover in the backs.