Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:28 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Agree with this. Seymour does OK for me but needs a decent foil and I don't think R Horne is it.

Someone in our block was moaning that Seymour is the worst scrum half we've had since some bloke I'd never heard of (ie 20 + years ago). Is he really worse than Thorman?

People clearly watch a different game to me, Seymour was far from his best today, but his kicking was good IMO, he repeatedly forced drop-outs from Saints with good kicks. He can't do everything on his own and not having a good partner in the halves limits his effectiveness.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:31 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Agree with this. Seymour does OK for me but needs a decent foil and I don't think R Horne is it.

Someone in our block was moaning that Seymour is the worst scrum half we've had since some bloke I'd never heard of (ie 20 + years ago). Is he really worse than Thorman?

Thought seymour was decent today

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:33 pm  

Seymour is a good player, not great but good.

Certainly our best halfback signing for many years.

Needs a partner.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:35 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Seymour is a good player, not great but good.

Certainly our best halfback signing for many years.

Needs a partner.

I agree, however with the right 6 he could be a great player imo.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:37 pm  

I'm not even that sure about Horne for FB.

I'd try and sign a Fb as well (Kearney) and use Horne as a utility back.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:38 pm  

I hope Gentle sees this as well and goes all out to sign a new 6 for the 2013 season. Horne has been way off the pace for a good three or more seasons now and he's become slow and stale at stand off. I don't think Seymour Can operate to his full potential without a quick thinking pacey 6 alongside him.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:40 pm  

not only horne, i thought houghton had his first poor game for a while, constantly passing the ball right when we had all that possesion in the second half, the majority of our plays easily handled by the saints defence, soon as it came left we scored!

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:42 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I'm not even that sure about Horne for FB.

I'd try and sign a Fb as well (Kearney) and use Horne as a utility back.

We need a recognised fullback and not Horney. It's a specialised position and it needs filling with an out and out FB. Horne should be used as a utility back if a place on the bench could be found for him.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:42 pm  

Monko wrote:

We need a recognised fullback and not Horney. It's a specialised position and it needs filling with an out and out FB. Horne should be used as a utility back if a place on the bench could be found for him.

Spot on.

Re: New No6 Desperately Needed : Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:43 pm  

horne was shocking today. Epitomised our whole performance with his lack of speed and ideas. As has already been said, I can't remember a half back being caught in posession so many times before. Having said that, much of the ball he received was absolute cack. Ball out of dummy half is pretty poor from us all of the time and as much as I like houghton, it is his biggest weakness