Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:59 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Well, most of us have advocated him doing a bit at hooker at some point or the other, so I won't complain about that.

Looking at some of the plays he came up with, it seems he's picked up a few tricks for use in the middle, other than his classic early dummy which we could all see coming. He got pace, he's fairly hard to pull down, he supports well and he can do the odd bit of genius. If he improves on his core playmaking (which many say he has in the recent games) then he'll be a good option at 6. I can't see him coming up with a top kicking game, but hopefully we've got Walsh fit for the playoffs to do that.

Lance has more of a kicking game than Wheeler has!

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:01 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Lance has more of a kicking game than Wheeler has!

You mean his foot won't fall off when he kicks it?

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:32 pm  

Boom and tish.

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:26 pm  

Like Walsh has just been withdrawn from the Widnes game! FFS!
Dislocated ankle being speculated by the commentators on Wish FM.

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:29 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Like Walsh has just been withdrawn from the Widnes game! FFS!
Dislocated ankle being speculated by the commentators on Wish FM.

Broken leg - absolutely no doubt is the message I got

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:32 pm  

Compound fracture of the ankle - Awful, awful injury.

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:30 am  

I've been looking at the fixture list for all the top teams and without Luke, Lance & Lomax I can only see you deffo winning 1 of your remaining fixtures.

Hull FC vs St Helens Hull win
St Helens vs Wakefield Saints win
Leeds vs St Helens Leeds
St Helens vs Warrington I'm not saying a word, I was at all those games in that run you had against us
Huddersfield vs St Helens Depends on which Giants team turns up, but should be a Giants win

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:33 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

I've been looking at the fixture list for all the top teams and without Luke, Lance & Lomax I can only see you deffo winning 1 of your remaining fixtures.

Hull FC vs St Helens Hull win
St Helens vs Wakefield Saints win
Leeds vs St Helens Leeds
St Helens vs Warrington I'm not saying a word, I was at all those games in that run you had against us
Huddersfield vs St Helens Depends on which Giants team turns up, but should be a Giants win

Hull Win ?????? I don't think so.

Leeds will depend on what happens in the CC.

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:59 am  

I had us down for four potential losses in remaining games.

I think those are now 4 definite losses.

to lose your first choice 1,6, 7 and 13 for the season completely wrecks the teams structure.

It looks like we will be reliant on Wheeler for kicking which means teams will just target him and take him out of the game.

Playing Wello at halfback just offers nothing. At least at fullback he offers the support play in attack

I think we will need to go with Turner and Wheeler in the halves.

Jones will need to move out to centre.

Re: Lance out for 8 weeks : Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:05 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

I've been looking at the fixture list for all the top teams and without Luke, Lance & Lomax I can only see you deffo winning 1 of your remaining fixtures.

Hull FC vs St Helens Hull win
St Helens vs Wakefield Saints win
Leeds vs St Helens Leeds
St Helens vs Warrington I'm not saying a word, I was at all those games in that run you had against us
Huddersfield vs St Helens Depends on which Giants team turns up, but should be a Giants win

I'd agree with that but sometimes adversity brings out the best in players like when we beat Leeds with 8 first team players out. Sometimes players sit back and expect the likes of Walsh and lomax to do a little magic but with them not there they might stand up.

We might have scrapped a few wins if we had Wilkin and lance in the halves but that doesn't look like likely as only prob lance will play again this year.