Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:23 pm  

What a game! Obviously I wish we'd have won but that's a proper advert for the game and I for one are proud of all the saints players for that effort.
With that level of determination and our new players next year we'll do very well,

COYS!!!!!

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:26 pm  

Great game was hoping Saints would win, missed opportunity with the Turner kick and the attempted drop goal.

Hope Hudds do it now

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:36 pm  

Excellent. worthy of a final.
I have high hopes for next season now.
Some of the young talent has come on leaps and bounds and a couple of decent signings.

The most proud of a loss I've ever been
Be interesting to see what Leeds have got left on the tank.

4 worthy teams in the semis.
Lets hope for more of the same.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:43 pm  

With Luke Walsh next year we will close out games like that

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:13 pm  

Luke Walsh and who else in the halves then??
be interesting to know our strongest, or first choice lineup next year.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:24 pm  

saintcj wrote:

Luke Walsh and who else in the halves then??
be interesting to know our strongest, or first choice lineup next year.

On his recent form I wouldn't move Hohaia away from 6 he's shown some of what we wanted from him of late IMO.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:21 am  

TheVee wrote:

On his recent form I wouldn't move Hohaia away from 6 he's shown some of what we wanted from him of late IMO.

I thought that was a tremendously brave performance all round, but Lance didn't look anything like a 6 to me tonight. I thought he was much better when he went to hooker, though.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:23 am  

I'm going to ignore the Lance question as I'm sure a whole new thread will start about the difference in his play from last week to this.

However as a team we defended amazingly last night.

I know people are looking at kicks as a let down, but actually I feel it was our respect for the ball that lost us the game. We gave over so much ball in our own half or just over the halfway it was difficult for us to put pressure on the Leeds line.

I'm not sure we had a set of six in the Leeds half that we completed in the first half last night. We had opportunities to build pressure and I think if we had done that it would have been our day.

But rightly it was a great playoff game, not sure what it was like for the TV audience with so much defense on display. But to run Leeds so close, with no halves is a credit to the effort the Saints lads put in.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:51 am  

Glad to see you are proud of your teams efforts they defended with venom ,quality and desperation worthy of any final.
For me Roby is still the best 9 around over here and with Lomax fit you have a real quality threat from FB.
Also great turn out by your fans and it will be interesting to see the 2014 version of ST's with the new 7 and co.

Re: Now that was a playoff game! : Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:58 am  

Saints looking very good for next season IMO with a decent 7.