Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:15 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

It must be Percival, big ask though to come in after only a handful of games and be first choice centre.

I like a pacey centre like Turner and a big beast of a centre like meli. IMO it's a good combo like the Iro and newlove.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:18 pm  

St pete wrote:

I like a pacey centre like Turner and a big beast of a centre like meli. IMO it's a good combo like the Iro and newlove.

Manu, Meli and Swift down our left has been outstanding of late. We'll really miss Meli. Percival undoubtedly has the talent, as he's shown, but I don't know whether he's physically ready.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:20 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

Manu, Meli and Swift down our left has been outstanding of late. We'll really miss Meli. Percival undoubtedly has the talent, as he's shown, but I don't know whether he's physically ready.

I thought Percival was very good with the ball and his defence was top notch early on but he started to miss tackles which he should have been making.

Brown took him out at the right time as his defence was just a little off but he will learn that and get stronger as he gets older.

He's the making of a very good strike player.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:28 pm  

Josh Jones, with Percival taking up some of the slack?

FWIW, if we cannot find better, I think Hohaia could do a job alongside Walsh next season. Leave the kicking to Walsh and let Hohaia do the running.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:45 pm  

It's simply not a case of us just 'letting him go'. It's probably his last contract and he will be on £140k at Salford, would you have wanted Saints to compete with that offer to keep him?

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:46 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

It's simply not a case of us just 'letting him go'. It's probably his last contract and he will be on £140k at Salford, would you have wanted Saints to compete with that offer to keep him?

He was told before Easter that he was free to talk to clubs as we won't be giving him a new deal.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:48 pm  

St pete wrote:

He was told before Easter that he was free to talk to clubs as we won't be giving him a new deal.

Even still, we couldn't have kept him if we wanted to at that price.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:58 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Even still, we couldn't have kept him if we wanted to at that price.

Maybe we could have offered him a deal early enough we would. I'm sorry he's going and think we Will miss him but we need to shake up the squad for next year with few of the older guys going out and some new faces coming in.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:25 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Josh Jones, with Percival taking up some of the slack?

FWIW, if we cannot find better, I think Hohaia could do a job alongside Walsh next season. Leave the kicking to Walsh and let Hohaia do the running.

I reckon thats how it will go next season, Jonesy starting at centre early in the season with Percival coming in when we get the drier grounds, Jonesy has done well this season does a lot of good stuff that quite often goes unoticed.

As for Hohaia he looked as though he wanted to be very much involved and had a better vision of the game, lets hope its a turning point for him during these play offs, he,s owes us and the team quite a few good performances, lets hope he succeeds.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:56 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

I reckon thats how it will go next season, Jonesy starting at centre early in the season with Percival coming in when we get the drier grounds, Jonesy has done well this season does a lot of good stuff that quite often goes unoticed.

As for Hohaia he looked as though he wanted to be very much involved and had a better vision of the game, lets hope its a turning point for him during these play offs, he,s owes us and the team quite a few good performances, lets hope he succeeds.

I don't like the thought of Josh Jones playing inside Swift. Will Swift get a pass ? Josh doesn't like to pass.