Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:28 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

The attack was a bit slap dash at times. ... Thought Walsh was a bit slap dash with some of his passes..

Are those two linked or where more people than Walsh 'slap dash'? And what actually do you mean by 'slap dash'? In the context of the game I mean (I do know what the phrase means!).

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:33 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Are those two linked or where more people than Walsh 'slap dash'? And what actually do you mean by 'slap dash'? In the context of the game I mean (I do know what the phrase means!).

Well the first half our attack did not seem to structured. I think the 3rd try was when we actually put on a play. The first try was due to a good break from Dawson from deep and Bradford let him waltz through.

Sometimes the passing just did not seem very slick. Passes to above head height, passes to knees. It was not poor, just not slick, which may have been a reflection of who we where up against.

But the defense more than made up for it for me.

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:37 pm  

Albion wrote:

Greenwood's been having a good season too so a lengthy absence would be annoying

So I think we might have Sav coming into the 17 next week against Warrington, increased firepower.

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:39 pm  

I'd imagine Laffranchi is due to be back soon.

It's not just greenwoods hard yards, he was pretty reliable defensively and I think until the injury was doing a full 80.

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:40 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Sometimes the passing just did not seem very slick. Passes to above head height, passes to knees. It was not poor, just not slick, which may have been a reflection of who we where up against.

Ah right. We've been like that pretty much all season to be fair, in parts at any rate. It's not especially good but, as you said, defence was the key although did Bradford seriously challenge us defensively? I hope we aren't going to be in for a shock next weekend!

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:41 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I'd imagine Laffranchi is due to be back soon.

In the update, Saints said they didn't know when he would be back as he has suffered nerve damage.

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 6:41 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Saints have said on Twitter that Lomax (who apparently got a knock) and Swift are both ok. They didn't say anything about Greenwood though, which IMO is ominous.

I listened to the game on Wish FM. Sounds like Walsh, Hohaia, Robes, Lomax all had good games though, as has been said, the game sounded more like an opposed training session than a match. However, that could be good for us in some ways as it gives us chance to get our attack back in order just in time for us to work on our defence!

How did we play? Were we any more cohesive in attack than against London?

Hard to tell how we played really as the bulls was very very bad. We didn't get out of 2nd gear. Like someone said, it was like a training session.

I can see how Wigan put 86 on them!

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 7:13 pm  

I think I over used slap dash in the same post.

Need to get my thesaurus out

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 7:19 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I think I over used slap dash in the same post.

Need to get my thesaurus out

You made it sound like we were throwing the ball all over the place, chaotically like. I was worried that Walsh and the team had lost the plot.

Re: 19 man Squad v Bradford : Sun May 11, 2014 9:09 pm  

No I meant more it was hit and miss. It was not chaotic just not very slick.