Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:33 pm  

verdeyen01 wrote:

Its quite amusing how confident the saints fans are for tonights game !!

Bradford will bring a big following tonight and will make it a hat-trick of defeats for the stains at Widnes !!!

COYB !!!!!

Big following, hat trick of defeats! Brilliant, this is why I love beating Northern.

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:51 am  

The bulls fans are complaining about certain decisons and the validity of some of our tries, but I felt we we're comfortably the better side.
We're still giving away yards up the middle a little cheaply, but the line seems a lot more solid and we've been through quite a bit of time on our goal line without being breached.
Lomax and Gaskell seem to compliment each other well and I think Perry's getting into his stride and looking like a real assett.

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:56 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

We're still giving away yards up the middle a little cheaply,

Do we miss Leon's defence do you think?

Lomax and Gaskell seem to compliment each other well and I think Perry's getting into his stride and looking like a real assett.

They do and he is, although it is going to take a bit of time for him.

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:06 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Do we miss Leon's defence do you think?

I don't think its that. I just don't think we're particulary quick in getting back the 10 to reset, then moving up. Better that than missing tackles, but there's room for improvement.

My only real negative was Soliola. I'm pretty sure it was him who missed the tackle on Langely for the break leading to the opening try and he let them through from the scrum base later on because he was too focused on rushing/smashing his opposite number. He was also looking a yard behind everyone else in resetting at 10m. Maybe he's a bit rusty as he's not had an awful lot of rugby since he got here, but he needs to ensure he's inposition and making the tackles before he's starts thinking about the pain train.

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:16 am  

To be fair st's were the better side, but there was some very strange dicisions by referee and linesmen!! the lines men gave a kick that went 2 yard wide!

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:17 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

I don't think its that. I just don't think we're particulary quick in getting back the 10 to reset, then moving up. Better that than missing tackles, but there's room for improvement.

My only real negative was Soliola. I'm pretty sure it was him who missed the tackle on Langely for the break leading to the opening try and he let them through from the scrum base later on because he was too focused on rushing/smashing his opposite number. He was also looking a yard behind everyone else in resetting at 10m. Maybe he's a bit rusty as he's not had an awful lot of rugby since he got here, but he needs to ensure he's inposition and making the tackles before he's starts thinking about the pain train.

It was, and it looked to me he missed it fro precisely the reason you note about the other miss. He looked to put a big hit on and missed.

Re: St Helens vs Bradford : Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:43 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Do we miss Leon's defence do you think?

They do and he is, although it is going to take a bit of time for him.

I 100% defo think we miss leon in defence. He puts in alot of work in defence that alot of fans don't notice.

Without a shadow of a doubt we miss leon in all aspects of the game.