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| Thought your boys were outstanding today. Carried out Price's ultra basic game plan brilliantly. It was one of those performances where Price would have been made up had you lost, as they worked their backsides off for each other and left nothing out there. I think Parton was by far the Mom, bossed you about the park and his kicking game was outstanding.
As for us it's hard to shake the bottlers tag now. I think we're still a better team than any in SL and in a FPTP system would win the league. But our inability to perform in big games has to be a mental thing. We had plenty of position and possession and made so many unforced errors and missed plenty of chances, despite our attack being so wayward. In hindsight playing Coote was a mistake, but he was fit so had to play really.
Ref was fine bar not sending the Knowles try upstairs. Inexcusable really given the technology is there and I think the game may well have been reversed if that's sent upstairs. You would have had to be more expansive and would have struggled with Austin out.
Enjoy your win and hopefully see you for round 2 at OT, if we don't bottle both home semi finals that is.
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| Ultra basic. Have a word with yourself.
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| Quote ="rubber duckie"Ultra basic. Have a word with yourself.'"
It was. Ultra basic doesn't mean it's not well thought out and superbly executed. It was essentially five drives and a bomb and it worked perfectly. It was a win for Price over Holbrook today, no question.
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| It was there to see...completely smashed in the forwards in every department. You ran with 3 forwards and players not 100%. I’ve said do many times...Wembley with it’s faster pitch will find out anyone not fit.
Wire had 4/5 big men at least on the pitch at any one time and probably 7 forwards at any time.
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| Quote ="Saddened!"Thought your boys were outstanding today. Carried out Price's ultra basic game plan brilliantly. It was one of those performances where Price would have been made up had you lost, as they worked their backsides off for each other and left nothing out there. I think Parton was by far the Mom, bossed you about the park and his kicking game was outstanding.
As for us it's hard to shake the bottlers tag now. I think we're still a better team than any in SL and in a FPTP system would win the league. But our inability to perform in big games has to be a mental thing. We had plenty of position and possession and made so many unforced errors and missed plenty of chances, despite our attack being so wayward. In hindsight playing Coote was a mistake, but he was fit so had to play really.
Ref was fine bar not sending the Knowles try upstairs. Inexcusable really given the technology is there and I think the game may well have been reversed if that's sent upstairs. You would have had to be more expansive and would have struggled with Austin out.
Enjoy your win and hopefully see you for round 2 at OT, if we don't bottle both home semi finals that is.
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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe: 'Less is more'.
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| Well done Sad one. A professional till the end.
It was a blatant Saints try and should have been given as such, but to suggest it would have had a baring on the result is crazy.
Saints have a big problem, MASSIVE. Everyone knows it. They can’t put big games to bed. This isn’t just a last couple of years thing, this goes back a long way.
But, today isn’t about that. Today is about a magnificent Wire performance, against all odds, against all the expectations of the majority of their fanbase. That was epic Wire, huge congratulations to everybody.
Wire stepped up a gear today, Saints couldn’t get near it
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| Quote ="rubber duckie"It was there to see...completely smashed in the forwards in every department. You ran with 3 forwards and players not 100%. I’ve said do many times...Wembley with it’s faster pitch will find out anyone not fit.
Wire had 4/5 big men at least on the pitch at any one time and probably 7 forwards at any time.'"
We were hardly smashed in the forwards, it's easy to make those statements when you win a game. We had more than enough field position to score enough to win the game. It was a tight, even game that you edged through respecting the ball and completing your sets while we just panicked and turned the ball over constantly. We made 17 handling errors today and probably ten of those were dropped cold with no pressure on the player at all.
If anything it was your kicking game that gave you more of an advantage than having one extra forward. Patton was sensational today.
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| This is why NO-ONE likes saints. They can't lose well and they can't win well. They were dry bummed today yet they think they can beat Australia. Laughable. Best Wembley ever. They lost to a team with Hughes and Patton as half backs. Regan Grace... Ho ho bloody ho. World's best front three got their s handed to em.
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| Quote ="ratticusfinch"This is why NO-ONE likes saints. They can't lose well and they can't win well. They were dry bummed today yet they think they can beat Australia. Laughable. Best Wembley ever. They lost to a team with Hughes and Patton as half backs. Regan Grace... Ho ho bloody ho. World's best front three got their s handed to em.'"
I congratulated you and said you were brilliant? Most wouldn't have turned back up until we beat you next time. When have I ever said we're unbeatable? I'm not one of the fans who crow about how we're going to do this and that or gloat when we do win.
Think you all owe Dec Patton a pint at the homecoming.
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| Quote ="ratticusfinch"This is why NO-ONE likes saints. They can't lose well and they can't win well. They were dry bummed today yet they think they can beat Australia. Laughable. Best Wembley ever. They lost to a team with Hughes and Patton as half backs. Regan Grace... Ho ho bloody ho. World's best front three got their s handed to em.'"
It was Patton and Currie in the halves.
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| Just seen the Knowles 'try' at full speed. Never has downward pressure, no try. Hicks made the right call.
Slow motion can be deceptive.
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| Quote ="Saddened!"I congratulated you and said you were brilliant? Most wouldn't have turned back up until we beat you next time. When have I ever said we're unbeatable? I'm not one of the fans who crow about how we're going to do this and that or gloat when we do win.
Think you all owe Dec Patton a pint at the homecoming.'"
You came on trying to vail a put down in a congratulations.
It wasn’t and ultra basic performance by any sort. The Wire pack size and numbers across the pitch smashed the hell out of Saints pack and Warmsley was gasping ten min in to the game.
The saints pack was smashed period.
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| Quote ="rubber duckie"You came on trying to vail a put down in a congratulations.
It wasn’t and ultra basic performance by any sort. The Wire pack size and numbers across the pitch smashed the hell out of Saints pack and Warmsley was gasping ten min in to the game.
The saints pack was smashed period.'"
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| Quote ="rubber duckie"You came on trying to vail a put down in a congratulations.
It wasn’t and ultra basic performance by any sort. The Wire pack size and numbers across the pitch smashed the hell out of Saints pack and Warmsley was gasping ten min in to the game.
The saints pack was smashed period.'"
Okay. 3 tries to 1 is hardly 60 point drubbing and there was 8 points in it with 3 minutes or so to go. Walmsley hasn't played in a month but I'll bet his stats are around his usual.
But in the spirit of goodwill you can have this one.
You can officially put on record that you marmelised us.
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| Can't see what all the fuss is about the disallowed try. His fingertips seemed to be on the side of the ball, no downward pressure. A bit iffy but not a definite try.
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| While I may be biased, I think there may be a point regarding the forwards. Clark seemed to run more often and with greater impact than Roby (or Grace, who is excellent from dummy half) and that is an effective barometer.
When Saints have dominated us, Walmsley and company generally make dents in the line and Roby darts out with lots of support, which just gathers momentum. Very little of that today though.
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| Never a try in a month of Sundays..ref got it right no downwards pressure..well done hicks
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| I don't know where the controversy is around the Knowles no try, even he didn't claim it.
We were amazing today, we made every ankle tap, every one-on-one, even though we were under the cosh for long periods and not making as many metres. But time and time again, as Saddened says, Patton found the grass with the kicks and got the ball far enough downfield to keep them at bay.
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| Quote ="Fourpointtry"Just seen the Knowles 'try' at full speed. Never has downward pressure, no try. Hicks made the right call.
Slow motion can be deceptive.'"
There are 3 fingers on the top of the ball with it touching the ground. If that goes up its given, they always are in that instance. Far more dodgy ones have been given this season. Hicks just got it wrong, I think they got the decision for Percival's wrong too. I can take the video ref not overruling Taia knocking on, it's a 50:50 and they are sometimes given as a strip, but it should have been Saints feed at the scrum, the first infringement is the touch onto Taia by a Warrington hand. Thaler just seems to miss that because he's focusing on the strip that happened afterwards.
But perhaps you'd have just caramelised us instead of marmelising us if it was given correctly.
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| Well played Warrie
Deserved it with that performance , it is not how you play it is about winning and you put in a game plan that worked perfectly.
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| The Knowles "no try" should have been sent to the video ref as a no try if Hicks felt it was no try. And I couldn't believe that he didn't. The Tom Lineham no try should have been sent up as a try if Hicks saw the ball touched down. The commentators said they were the two worst decision they had seen,and I agree. Despite all that we were magnificent sticking to the game plan and coming up trump. Coote had one of those days which will haunt him for a long time.
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| Would love to play Saints in a Grand Final. Biggest bottlers going.
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| Saints made a lot of yards against us & defence helped to win that game. The back room boys came up with a plan that worked & our greatly weakened go forward did the rest.
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