Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 8:18 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Mcrae said last night on HullFc live that "Manu had gone and Turner is most likely to leave"

Untill Saints actually release a statement saying ' Saints sign Manu and Turner from Hull FC ' I won't believe it.

Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 10:21 am  

Saddened! wrote:

You won the game so of course everyone in our team got battered. You and your Goon mates have singled out Perry, Laffranchi, Roby, Soliola, Wilkin and Flanagan as being 'battered'. That's great if you ignore the fact that our pack made more metres than Wigan's and had the better territory. If we had a Sam Tomkins and a reasonable halfback we'd have converted the endless sets we had in your 20. The teams were very, very similar at the weekend, the higher quality of your halves and fullback was the difference, the rest cancelled each other out.

You really don't have a clue, do you?

Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 10:28 am  

walter bishop wrote:

You really don't have a clue, do you?

Well our pack made more metres than yours:

Wigan 415m Saints 450m.

Although Wigan averaged 5.6m from 74 carries and Saints averaged 4.8m from 93 carries. We had far greater territory than you did, but I'd put that down to your poor completion rate.

Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 10:55 am  

Albion wrote:

Well our pack made more metres than yours:

Wigan 415m Saints 450m.

Although Wigan averaged 5.6m from 74 carries and Saints averaged 4.8m from 93 carries. We had far greater territory than you did, but I'd put that down to your poor completion rate.

you hit the nail on the head, we had less carries because we made errors and didnt complete sets, but of the carries we made each play gained more ground. There is no point in making 80m from your own try line if you do nothing with the ball in the last 20m. It was the defense by Wigan in their own 20m being able to stop the Saints attack and their ability to create gaps in your 20m that made the difference.

Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 11:08 am  

pie.warrior wrote:

you hit the nail on the head, we had less carries because we made errors and didnt complete sets, but of the carries we made each play gained more ground. There is no point in making 80m from your own try line if you do nothing with the ball in the last 20m. It was the defense by Wigan in their own 20m being able to stop the Saints attack and their ability to create gaps in your 20m that made the difference.

Your goal D was good, there's no questioning that, but I think our poor attack was a big factor too. The game reminded me a lot of the semi last year when we had ample territory and ball yet couldn't do anything with it.

I don't think this is the thread to be discussing this though! We have gone a little off topic; I apologise.

Re: Rumours thread. : Thu May 17, 2012 12:10 pm  

I like thr "finch" rumour, we need a half back and it'll wind up our neighbours something cronic. All the posts about how amazing he is will count for nothing if he signs for us!

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri May 18, 2012 9:20 am  

Shenton has now agreed a deal to go to Hull Kr.

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri May 18, 2012 5:28 pm  

Dettoriman wrote:

Shenton has now agreed a deal to go to Hull Kr.

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri May 18, 2012 8:09 pm  

Hopefully for full price!!!

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri May 18, 2012 10:47 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

I like thr "finch" rumour, we need a half back and it'll wind up our neighbours something cronic. All the posts about how amazing he is will count for nothing if he signs for us!

And we can look at it this way , worst case it will be driving up his contract value in goon land