Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:17 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

Lomax will makes mistakes positionally, he isn't experienced in the position.

But his positives in the position outweigh the negatives.

Agreed and one of the reasons I've not brought it up in the past as it will come with experience.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:09 am  

St pete wrote:

I can't beleive we didn't kick that goal. It just shows we have no leader or brain on the pitch.

Me either. Lomax kicks on play 3/4 straight to Joel Monaghan as well and that was the game right there done.

You can't possibly start the game 22-0 down and expect to win. The fact we got close was good and showed character but Warrington parked the bus by slowing the ruck and kicking dead for a 20m tap. They were there for the taking in the second half and we had nobody to get us over the line.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:34 am  

Saints MoM for me... in defence Soliola was a beast, probably the fittest and had the quickest line speed of the lot of you. In attack Manu, dangerous every time he had the ball. But I think Sia was your best player tonight.
For us I don't think Ratchford deserved it, I thought Higham was the man that kept us on the front foot, we slowed down during Monaghans spell.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:37 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Saints MoM for me... in defence Soliola was a beast, probably the fittest and had the quickest line speed of the lot of you. In attack Manu, dangerous every time he had the ball. But I think Sia was your best player tonight.
For us I don't think Ratchford deserved it, I thought Higham was the man that kept us on the front foot, we slowed down during Monaghans spell.

Might be an unpopular view but for me Higham is front runner for MoS at the moment.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:59 am  

Lomax for MOM???????

He ran forwards valiantly at times, but some of his stints in defense and desicion making were not up to it tonight.

He can be class without being MOM each week.

Manu caused problems for them, Turner too, but Briers brain and Mickey Higham were great for them. Can see why Ratchford got some credit too. When ever we where short on numbers or there was a gap in our line he was quick to direct the play to it.

eg we had them pinned and ratchford picks out a huge gap for the forward to run through.

Makinson makes a defensive cover tackle and ratchford directs the play to makinsons side, etc etc.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:33 am  

St pete wrote:

We should have took the two points with aprox 10 mins to go with the pen under the posts. That would have made it 18-23 with a converted try winning the game. It would have also put massive pressure on the wolves. I agree with Howarth. We shouldn't have brought him back on. Lance was playing well at 9. He was causing them problems with the ball and also putting in a shift in defence. I thought we really had them, we was smashing them in defence, making breaks, the crowd was buzzing and brown took lance and Lms off and we went flat.

I agree with you on this point 100% could not understand the reason why this was not done; I still think Saints could have won with the right play at that time. The whole balance of the match would have shifted.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:21 am  

Still unsure on Lomax, one minute he dazzles me, the next minute he makes me shake my head. Still learning the postion though. I thought Jordan Turner was your best player.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:41 am  

Big Ben wrote:

Still unsure on Lomax, one minute he dazzles me, the next minute he makes me shake my head. Still learning the postion though. I thought Jordan Turner was your best player.

I thought Manu was by far our best player.

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:15 am  

I thought we had Wire on the back foot at the point of getting that penalty, their defence was creaking and that's why we went for the 6. I agreed with the decision at the time, but then I always think we should throw caution to the wind and go for the 6 points in that position .

It's less conservative, but it's more exciting

Re: Tonight: A Game of Four Quarters : Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:42 am  

Loz wrote:

Are you a touch not with it ? Lomax was the best rugby player on that pitch by a mile.

Nah he wasn't. Briers was.