Re: Saints player of the year : Sat Apr 16, 2016 11:29 am  

You know you are having a terrible season when Matty Dawson is your best player!

Re: Saints player of the year : Sat Apr 16, 2016 12:51 pm  

Matty Dawson was almost a under the radar, uninspiring signing but Brown saw something in him. He's never got the respect or adulation from the Saints fans, there's the sense that we just carry him or he's there to just make the numbers up. Fact is, he's a solid, honest player and with the restrictions of the salary cap we badly need him. We need to get behind him instead of using him as an example of poor, underwhelming recruitment.

Re: Saints player of the year : Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:20 pm  

Can't believe that nobody has mentioned Roby

Re: Saints player of the year : Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:46 pm  

Twentyman wrote:

Matty Dawson was almost a under the radar, uninspiring signing but Brown saw something in him. He's never got the respect or adulation from the Saints fans, there's the sense that we just carry him or he's there to just make the numbers up. Fact is, he's a solid, honest player and with the restrictions of the salary cap we badly need him. We need to get behind him instead of using him as an example of poor, underwhelming recruitment.

He's a "confidence player" for him it was wasn't doing him any good playing the odd game whether it was wing or centre. So far because of injuries he has got a run of games in one settled position which means he's able to put in a solid performance rather than a spectacular one, think KC will put him before JT at the moment, don't know what will happen when Peyroux returns most likely Matty will be shipped back to the wing.

Re: Saints player of the year : Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:06 pm  

I cannot answer this question at the moment. Everyone has been underwhelming.

Re: Saints player of the year : Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:16 pm  

Harry Pinner wrote:

Can't believe that nobody has mentioned Roby

Why? He's been poor all season. He's a big part of why our pack is getting demolished most weeks. Too slow from dummy half, dropping off tackles all the time and not making any real contribution with the ball either.

Re: Saints player of the year : Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:38 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Why? He's been poor all season. He's a big part of why our pack is getting demolished most weeks. Too slow from dummy half, dropping off tackles all the time and not making any real contribution with the ball either.

The only difference for Roby this year is the amount of offloads which is pretty poor, which is probably down to our style of rugby for most of the season. Roby still only misses 1 tackle in 20 same as last year and his metres per carry is more or less the same as well, when he does the occasional scoot, most of the time there is no support player backing him up. Walmsley is very similar as well, we don't promote the ball with smart play thats why we are so predictable.

Re: Saints player of the year : Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:18 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Why? He's been poor all season. He's a big part of why our pack is getting demolished most weeks. Too slow from dummy half, dropping off tackles all the time and not making any real contribution with the ball either.

He may not be at his best but Roby at half throttle is still better than most players in the league. The fact that he's not as good as usual doesn't mean he's worse than Matty Dawson.