Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:35 pm  

St pete wrote:

Our pack is good but by no means Is it a great pack. It's hard working but Imo nothing special.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are totally dominated next week.

I would. Wigan's front row is only a couple of notches above gash.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:35 pm  

St pete wrote:

Our pack is good but by no means Is it a great pack. It's hard working but Imo nothing special.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are totally dominated next week.

Who has a better pack in SL at the moment? The supposed nearest contenders were Warrington but we comfortably dealt with them last week.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:36 pm  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

Of course, the comment was directed at whomever is was that said Saints' pack is the best ever in SL

He also said we could compete with souths pack

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:38 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Who has a better pack in SL at the moment? The supposed nearest contenders were Warrington but we comfortably dealt with them last week.

I'm not saying its a bad pack but it's certainly not head and shoulders above every pack in super league.

We ain't played Wigan or leeds yet, so we will see.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:38 pm  

St pete wrote:

He also said we could compete with souths pack

By 'Souths' did he mean London?

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:42 pm  

St pete wrote:

I'm not saying its a bad pack but it's certainly not head and shoulders above every pack in super league.

We ain't played Wigan or leeds yet, so we will see.

And Wigan fans are insistent that their pack is small, and lost to hkr by the same amount in week 2 when they were still on reminding each other their names. and Leeds pack had been dominated by Warrington the week before they played us!

Are we the best pack in the world? No, of course not, are we as good as anyone in this league? Absolutely. The pack weren't the reason we lost tonight, the links were.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:50 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

And Wigan fans are insistent that their pack is small, and lost to hkr by the same amount in week 2 when they were still on reminding each other their names. and Leeds pack had been dominated by Warrington the week before they played us!

Are we the best pack in the world? No, of course not, are we as good as anyone in this league? Absolutely. The pack weren't the reason we lost tonight, the links were.

Do you not think we should have really hurt them in defence and bust them up in attack down the middle considering they had no pack ?

I agree it was the links that cost us tonight but stop making out that this pack is untouchable because it's not.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:57 pm  

St pete wrote:

Do you not think we should have really hurt them in defence and bust them up in attack down the middle considering they had no pack ?

I agree it was the links that cost us tonight but stop making out that this pack is untouchable because it's not.

They had the obvious game plan from minute 1 not to come up the middle. From the kick off they spread it. you can't hurt at them if they're not running at you! Even then they managed to clear out the links a few times. On another day and another pitch the link doesn't work and we'd of scored 50. In fact it was looking that way until Wilkin decided to give Kelly a free run. In defence, they scored 2 gifts, a poor take by swift and a terrible 1on1 attempt by Burns. What can the pack do in defence about that?

The back rowers could of helped the link create some space with some better angles of running, as the wide defence was closing us down far too quickly. And the front row seemed to try to do too much towards the end. They did bust them down the middle, we had 3 times more ball in the opposition 20 than they did! How many chances are they expected to create???

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:08 pm  

Swift as I have stated previously is grossly overrated. People have been misled by the fools in the commentary box linking his name with pace which tonight proved he suffers a lack of. His all round game is insufficient for super league and I would rather see Gardiner play before him.

The pack was not beaten by any means in fact they dominated but the halves could not capitalise on it. On the whole the players were too shallow and too close allowing the KRs defence to smother any attack with ease.

Re: Adam Swift : Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:09 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

And Wigan fans are insistent that their pack is small, and lost to hkr by the same amount in week 2 when they were still on reminding each other their names. and Leeds pack had been dominated by Warrington the week before they played us!

Are we the best pack in the world? No, of course not, are we as good as anyone in this league? Absolutely. The pack weren't the reason we lost tonight, the links were.

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