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| Saints V Leeds 3rd March
Get your tickets early folks its going to sell out? Bringing the WCC home.
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| I'm washing my hair that night!
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| Sts were very good. Sadly on our trip to Melbourne we had a pretty dire team. Will be interesting to see how Sts go in the short term, as the WCC has created a bit of a hangover sometimes. However, they are so much better than the rest of SL when everyone's fit it's difficult to see them not winning the comp again.
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| Congratulations to the SL champs on becoming World champs and matching the record of the Rhinos in winning it 3 times. You will hand us our s on your return. Again.
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"Congratulations to the SL champs on becoming World champs and matching the record of the Rhinos in winning it 3 times. You will hand us our s on your return. Again.'"
Magnificent achievement, especially doing it in OZ. Exactly the kind of result IMG would have been praying for. Well done Saints!
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| Yeh, well done to Saints. Brilliant achievement.
I expect a few NRL teams will be sniffing sound some Saints players - Welsby obviously, possibly Dodd.
Hard to see them not doing 5 in a row.
They really have the right blend of home grown talent, experienced internationals and quality overseas players.
Great hit from Konnie at the end to dislodge the ball. Was a game changer.
But he looks like he missed the email about pre-season....
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| Enjoyed it this morning. I do like Welsby. He's got the bit of arrogance to wind people up.
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| Welsby is the Shaun Edwards of his generation, good player great wind up merchant.
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"Welsby is the Shaun Edwards of his generation, good player great wind up merchant.'"
I can't hear the name Shaun Edwards without automatically adding '.. is a w@nker' in my head. It's like some kind of Pavlovian conditioning drilled into me from too many years on the South Stand.
He was undeniably a class player though.
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| Brilliant Saints on the p!ss all week and put Juniors out next week at Cas as can afford a beating. Unfortunately the week after is the Homecoming and we won't spoil the MASSIVE party night. Can't wait.
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| Not sure I can stomach going to this one, not because i think we’ll get beat but don’t think the StHelens love in will be very pleasant for a non Saints supporter, having said that watching it in Sky will be worse, Wilkin might have an a trouser accident Live on air
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| Quote ="christopher"Not sure I can stomach going to this one, not because i think we’ll get beat but don’t think the StHelens love in will be very pleasant for a non Saints supporter, having said that watching it in Sky will be worse, Wilkin might have an a trouser accident Live on air'"
Perhaps he should heed his own words and not celebrate too hard, or whatever he actually accused Ryan Bailey of that one time after the grand final.
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| Had to turn the commentary down when watching the recording. Wilkins's man crush on Tex Hoy was the listening equivalent of having an oversexed poodle constantly trying to hump your leg.
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| Quote ="Clearwing"Had to turn the commentary down when watching the recording. Wilkins's man crush on Tex Hoy was the listening equivalent of having an oversexed poodle constantly trying to hump your leg.'"
Yeh it was ridiculous.
The one where Austin dropped the ball and Wilkin was crediting Hoy really was pathetic.
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| I have a bit of an issue with Handley there, he’s one of the leading wingers in SL and has a break on with plenty of space. He should have gone straight at the FB and then swerved back to the wing to go past him, a simple in and out. There’s no way Hoy would have stopped him, and there’s no need to look for Austin who was being closed down at a rate of knots by Swift from the other side.
Poor play by Handley, he should have done much better.
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"I have a bit of an issue with Handley there, he’s one of the leading wingers in SL and has a break on with plenty of space. He should have gone straight at the FB and then swerved back to the wing to go past him, a simple in and out. There’s no way Hoy would have stopped him, and there’s no need to look for Austin who was being closed down at a rate of knots by Swift from the other side.
Poor play by Handley, he should have done much better.'"
It was a brilliant break by Handley though. Give him some credit. Wrong decision at end but split second call…..
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"I have a bit of an issue with Handley there, he’s one of the leading wingers in SL and has a break on with plenty of space. He should have gone straight at the FB and then swerved back to the wing to go past him, a simple in and out. There’s no way Hoy would have stopped him, and there’s no need to look for Austin who was being closed down at a rate of knots by Swift from the other side.
Poor play by Handley, he should have done much better.'"
John Atkinson would have done Hoy as you described it. Atky once told me he never made eye contact with a full back as he came infield, the lack of eye contact made any full back slow down even more/ freeze. Atkinson then turned on the gas and went away on the outside. He had great balance though which helped.
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"I have a bit of an issue with Handley there, he’s one of the leading wingers in SL and has a break on with plenty of space. He should have gone straight at the FB and then swerved back to the wing to go past him, a simple in and out. There’s no way Hoy would have stopped him, and there’s no need to look for Austin who was being closed down at a rate of knots by Swift from the other side.
Poor play by Handley, he should have done much better.'"
Maybe giving him the centre role is causing him to overthink?
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| Won’t be many making this trip, how many do we normally get? 500-1k?
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| Quote ="Shabino"It was a brilliant break by Handley though. Give him some credit. Wrong decision at end but split second call…..'"
This will sound harsh. Whilst the break itself was good, it’s what he’s paid to do as one of the leagues premium wingers he should be doing it most weeks, perhaps more than once per game. He made a complete hash of it though, he showed no wingers instinct and has shown before that his passing is questionable. He should back his pace in acres of space against a static fullback.
Let’s put it this way, he’s our best winger, so by comparison do Bevan French, Tommy Makinson, Matty Ashton, Ryan Hall, score form there? I use those examples as they are the best wingers at their clubs.
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| Quote ="Clearwing"Maybe giving him the centre role is causing him to overthink?'"
It’s certainly not suiting him or playing to his natural strengths. He’s a good winger, and there was a big fanfare about Olpherts as a centre (I know that’s a reaction to him being a poor winger) so why not play them in their “preferred” positions?
Handley should only play on the wing. Period.
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| Quote ="batleyrhino"This will sound harsh. Whilst the break itself was good, it’s what he’s paid to do as one of the leagues premium wingers he should be doing it most weeks, perhaps more than once per game. He made a complete hash of it though, he showed no wingers instinct and has shown before that his passing is questionable. He should back his pace in acres of space against a static fullback.
Let’s put it this way, he’s our best winger, so by comparison do Bevan French, Tommy Makinson, Matty Ashton, Ryan Hall, score form there? I use those examples as they are the best wingers at their clubs.'"
Bevan French is the only one who definitely scores from that list. Hall and Makinson def don’t by themselves, as not quick enough…..
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| Quote ="Shabino"Won’t be many making this trip, how many do we normally get? 500-1k?'"
I'd hope it's be more than that. Hull brought 1500 to Headingley this week.
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| Quote ="Shabino"Bevan French is the only one who definitely scores from that list. Hall and Makinson def don’t by themselves, as not quick enough…..'"
I would say Ashton is as quick if not quicker than French. I also think Makinson is quick enough to score that try. Ryan Hall not so much. Need to remember Handley was clocked as one of the fastest players in SL last year.
More generally a couple of longer range breaks we couldn’t finish. Close to the Hull line we never looked like scoring. We could still be playing now and we wouldn’t have score any kind of attacking shape try from inside the 20. The lack of direction and quality is shown by the run and turn over plays from Leeming and the late kicks from Austin and Sezer. Awful short range kicking game, lack of structured attacking plays. Either we crash over or we do something off the cuff and hope it might come off.
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| The dissapointing thing with the Handley chance is that he didn't have go. If Hoy had have got his hands on him he could have looked to pass out of the tackle and leave Austin clear. It could well have gone wrong, but wouldn't have looked so amateurish. While Ash might be the quickest at Leeds I doubt he finishes in the top six in a sprint for fastest in the league. That in itself is a problem.
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