Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:37 pm  

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C+ ...

But, I'll take a win, even against poor opposition .

Hopefully we can bring our A game to KR next week.

Re: Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:56 pm  

Thought it was the kind of game we needed going into next week and can be no excuses from Saints that was pretty much a full strength team so even nicer to get the 4th win over them

Re: Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:09 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Thought it was the kind of game we needed going into next week and can be no excuses from Saints that was pretty much a full strength team so even nicer to get the 4th win over them

It was absolutely the game we needed. And we don't have off-days very often, so hopefully that was the last off-day this year!

Re: Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:20 pm  

Crazy to say I think Dufty had a quiet game considering he ran rings around them at least three times. Guess I'm just used to him finishing them. Williams, King and Currie were incredible. Didn't see Musgrove or Vaughan much tonight actually, did they play many minutes?

Re: Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:52 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Crazy to say I think Dufty had a quiet game considering he ran rings around them at least three times. Guess I'm just used to him finishing them?

I almost certain his break would have led to a try if Welsby had been correctly penalised for that ridiculous lie-on. A sin-bin if ever there was one.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Must do better... : Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:53 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Crazy to say I think Dufty had a quiet game considering he ran rings around them at least three times. Guess I'm just used to him finishing them. Williams, King and Currie were incredible. Didn't see Musgrove or Vaughan much tonight actually, did they play many minutes?

Musgrove didn't come back on

Re: Must do better... : Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:28 am  

easyWire wrote:

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C+ ...

But, I'll take a win, even against poor opposition .

Hopefully we can bring our A game to KR next week.

If golden point had gone the other way, this forum would have been full of post mortem threads saying "Wire will never win a Grand Final until we sort out X, Y and Z" with lists of players to be booted out.

And also "Saints fans would never accept this situation - why do we?"

Re: Must do better... : Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:15 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

If golden point had gone the other way, this forum would have been full of post mortem threads saying "Wire will never win a Grand Final until we sort out X, Y and Z" with lists of players to be booted out.

And also "Saints fans would never accept this situation - why do we?"

But it didn’t

Re: Must do better... : Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:31 am  

Wire can be better. But Saints have considerable power (that has missed lots of games this season) so to expect us to win easily is plain unrealistic. The side that Saints put out last night would not have finished sixth in the league & would be hard to handle by any side. Saints were red hot in the first half & we did well to claw back the ten point lead. They showed a bit more power than us & we showed a bit more skill.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Must do better... : Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:43 am  

Whilst I nurse my postgame hangover I have to to admit that I gave my eyes a bit of rub reading a couple of posts on here this morning.

Criticism is fine but credit where it's due as Smithy said this Saints team isn't a sixth placed team and to beat them four times in a season is an achievement that should be applauded. To win a knockout game where the whole season is on the line coming from a two score deficit (three for the win) in forty minutes of rugby is brilliant to be pegged back in the last minute but to win in Golden Point shows that this team is full of the Right Stuff.

Sure we can look to improve in areas and will need our A Game against KR but really what's no to like?