Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:05 pm  

A few victories and the Scousers are getting gobby again... lol

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:12 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

So you think Wigan are lucky and saints arent

I didn't comment on luck specifically, though wigan are currently on a run of very favourable CC draws. Just because saints won by a point in a game high on controversy, doesn't automatically mean they were lucky. I thought on the balance of play the game was fairly equal, but saints did a better job of taking their chances and thus deserved to win IMO.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:14 pm  

Wigan Peer wrote:

A few victories and the Scousers are getting gobby again... lol

The OP is a Leeds fan you clown.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:51 pm  

is the same team, players and coaches that most saints wanted shut of last year because they weren't winning regularly?
must admit i have been very impressed with saints so far this season but the fickleness of some saints fans is unbelievable

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:00 pm  

meast wrote:

is the same team, players and coaches that most saints wanted shut of last year because they weren't winning regularly?
must admit i have been very impressed with saints so far this season but the fickleness of some saints fans is unbelievable

I'd say it was a 50/50 split rather than most. A lot of us realised Brown needed time to put his own structures into place and assemble the team he wanted. Not only that, we were massively injury struck and threw out numerous debuts last year, some were too stupid to realise that but certainly not 'most'.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:13 pm  

fair enough, as in 'most' i meant most that i had seen post things.
i don't mind saints if im honest and hope browny does a good job, you certainly have some cracking young players coming through,which can surely only benefit the national team.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:25 pm  

meast wrote:

fair enough, as in 'most' i meant most that i had seen post things.
i don't mind saints if im honest and hope browny does a good job, you certainly have some cracking young players coming through,which can surely only benefit the national team.

There's about 50 regular posters on RLFANS who are Saints fans. We have 10k fans who go the game. Go figure.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:31 pm  

meast wrote:

fair enough, as in 'most' i meant most that i had seen post things.
i don't mind saints if im honest and hope browny does a good job, you certainly have some cracking young players coming through,which can surely only benefit the national team.

I will openly admit that midway through last year I was questioning browns appointment. We had injuries yes, but we were playing some truly dire rugby. In the second half of the year, I am happy to eat humble pie on the matter, and were playing some truly fabulous rugby. He still has his moments (in retrospect it probably would of been wiser to stick with the more experienced players in lms and laffranchi over greenwood and walker on a wider pitch, but equally I was very happy to see greenwood play, as I'm a big fan)

Never doubted the players we had/ have - but our recruitment this year has to be up with some of the best

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:39 am  

meast wrote:

is the same team, players and coaches that most saints wanted shut of last year because they weren't winning regularly?
must admit i have been very impressed with saints so far this season but the fickleness of some saints fans is unbelievable

God, we were awful at times last year. Not just losing, but looking completely clueless and toothless.

The hope was, as I alluded to at times, that Brown had written the season off before it began and assigned it to experimenting with his players and moving away from an old, ineffective playbook in order to establish a whole new approach - essentially breaking us right down to build us up from scratch in a better mould.

Fingers crossed, it looks like that could have been what's happened, but god, it was hard to take at times.

Re: This Sintellins team..... : Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:04 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

God, we were awful at times last year. Not just losing, but looking completely clueless and toothless.

The hope was, as I alluded to at times, that Brown had written the season off before it began and assigned it to experimenting with his players and moving away from an old, ineffective playbook in order to establish a whole new approach - essentially breaking us right down to build us up from scratch in a better mould.

Fingers crossed, it looks like that could have been what's happened, but god, it was hard to take at times.

We looked dire but only because (and I said this at the time) Brown was in the process of trying to have the squad playing his brand of rugby after years of stale up-the-jumper stuff. It was more apparent as the year went on that the team was growing into Brown's methods and structures. I was embarrassed by the fans (a large number of them) calling for his head like fickle soccer fans.