Re: Next up... St Helens. : Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:10 pm  

Stevosfalseteeth wrote:

Singo in for Mullally, but Cuthbertson at prop. Definitely drop Galloway. Won't happen though.

We need to give Galloway a bit more time. I agree he hasn't ripped up any trees yet, but he has got through some big minutes and plenty of graft through a period where we have struggled for any consistency or patterns of play.Hopefully with more direction and distribution from a real hooker in Falloon , and McGuire's experience leading the way he will step up a level. I will give him at least until the summer has passed and we have fielded stronger sides for a period before writing him off as a dud.

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:21 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

We need to give Galloway a bit more time. I agree he hasn't ripped up any trees yet, but he has got through some big minutes and plenty of graft through a period where we have struggled for any consistency or patterns of play.Hopefully with more direction and distribution from a real hooker in Falloon , and McGuire's experience leading the way he will step up a level. I will give him at least until the summer has passed and we have fielded stronger sides for a period before writing him off as a dud.

That's fair. For me he ls more dud than quality at the moment but hopefully will prove me wrong. He isn't really bad just average plodder
At the moment

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:39 pm  

If everyone in the 19 is fit I'd go with

Hardaker
Handley
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sutcliffe
Mcguire
Galloway
Falloon
Cuthbertson
Ablett
Ferres
Singleton

Subs

Burrow
JJB
Delaney
Garbutt

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Wed Mar 16, 2016 11:03 pm  

Be surprised if more than 2 of the 4 come back in on Friday but fingers crossed and hamstrings lengthened.

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:27 am  

Biff Tannen wrote:

We need to give Galloway a bit more time. I agree he hasn't ripped up any trees yet, but he has got through some big minutes and plenty of graft through a period where we have struggled for any consistency or patterns of play.Hopefully with more direction and distribution from a real hooker in Falloon , and McGuire's experience leading the way he will step up a level. I will give him at least until the summer has passed and we have fielded stronger sides for a period before writing him off as a dud.

He drops too much ball, can't break a tackle, and struggles to bend his back in defence. At least Mullally looked decent when he came on. But as we know, it's not Mac's way to play the younger players (unless he's forced)

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:59 am  

Galloway is simply a scapegoat due to being new.
He's playing better than some if not most of our forwards. Most of our players are getting an easy ride due to past achievements.

It's pretty poor going from our 'supporters' imo

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:22 pm  

Les Norton wrote:

Galloway is simply a scapegoat due to being new.
He's playing better than some if not most of our forwards. Most of our players are getting an easy ride due to past achievements.

It's pretty poor going from our 'supporters' imo

No he isn't. He is slow in defence and he doesn't make the impact in attack his size and experience should. Just because you have an opinion about a players performance, that doesn't bring into question how good of a supporter you are. IMHO anyway. Lets hope he improves.

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 1:01 pm  

So the Cowboys (who thrashed us) beat the Roosters (who thrashed St Helens) 40-0 today. Gives us an idea of how good Saints are this season. Anything other than a home win would be a big underperformance.

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 1:20 pm  

craigizzard wrote:

So the Cowboys (who thrashed us) beat the Roosters (who thrashed St Helens) 40-0 today. Gives us an idea of how good Saints are this season. Anything other than a home win would be a big underperformance.

But surely, surely, that kind of scoreline just underlines how uncompetitive the NRL is doesn't it? With such a huge yawning skills gap between the sides?

Re: Next up... St Helens. : Thu Mar 17, 2016 1:23 pm  

Thaler will be the referee.