Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:30 am  

Re Walmsley, we need to do to him what he's done so successfully to us. He's a big man and a strong man. Pain-wise, he feels it. We need to do a (legal) number on him. He's hard but he's no JP.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:08 am  

Clearwing wrote:

Re Walmsley, we need to do to him what he's done so successfully to us. He's a big man and a strong man. Pain-wise, he feels it. We need to do a (legal) number on him. He's hard but he's no JP.

He won’t have it all his own way next time.

We will have to reduce unforced errors and create more through the spine players to trouble Saints. I feel we’ll have to score more points than we did against Wigan to have a chance.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:14 am  

Loved seeing the Warrington faces almost as much as the Wigan faces the night before.
They totally underestimated HKR.
Abdull is a class act.

I don't think there's too much between away at Saints and away at Cats tbh.
We need to get the big guys in their faces early on and match them down the middle.
Tetevano has to start, but has to keep it legal!

What worries me is disciplinary.
Oledski and Newman could cop a ban and that would be disastrous.
We need our strongest team possible.
If they play, and Gale is fit, we have a chance.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:54 am  

Still fancy us win next week, overdue a win against saints, just wish we had two fit halves rather than one half fit.

Not going to be the easy win it was a few weeks ago, this will be close.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:04 am  

rollin thunder wrote:

Still fancy us win next week, overdue a win against saints, just wish we had two fit halves rather than one half fit.

Not going to be the easy win it was a few weeks ago, this will be close.

An overdue win is not what happens though is it , next year maybe but we are still miles off Saints at the moment . A half full Old Trafford is on its way

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:08 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

An overdue win is not what happens though is it , next year maybe but we are still miles off Saints at the moment . A half full Old Trafford is on its way

I really don’t think we are miles off, our full strength pack is better than theirs, we gave no halves at the moment and ate still a bit lacking out wide. We will need some luck and the rub of the green, but people handing this game to saints far too easily, see Warrington last night.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:11 am  

A lot will depend on the disciplinary. If Mik and Newman are banned, then we will struggle.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:55 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

An overdue win is not what happens though is it , next year maybe but we are still miles off Saints at the moment :

Yep, just like hull kr are miles off Warrington.
It's a playoff.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:05 pm  

I’d like to think neither Mik nor Newman will get banned. I know we need to protect players but these are play-off games. I think most of us feel the judiciary is being too over-zealous, we need a more common sense approach.

We certainly have a chance against Saints but will be underdogs. I’m not sure their week off is a positive, this time of year momentum is a great thing.

Re: SL GF E | St Helens (A) : Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:26 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

A lot will depend on the disciplinary. If Mik and Newman are banned, then we will struggle.

Saints fan in peace

Which incident was the Newman one? Just gonna have a look now out of interest. Would be a huge boost for Saints if either of those two are out, I’m a big fan of both of them.

Interesting to hear another poster say your pack is better than ours. Not sure I’d go that far but I do like Prior, Dwyer, Oledzki and Martin. However I’m confident Walmsley, Roby, Matautia and Knowles would all be in a combined pack of our sides.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t confident going into next Friday but it won’t be easy and I’m taking nothing for granted. If we play like we can then we should be fine. Really looking forward to it.