https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... dium=email For a man trying not to sound bitter, Wellens appears to be failing quite spectacularly. Asiata appears to have mowed down the Saints team single handedly, by tackling big men round the legs. Several teams have deployed this technique against Walmsley and he goes down like a sack of spuds. Saints seem to be against anything that stops them being the dominant team in the league.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... dium=email For a man trying not to sound bitter, Wellens appears to be failing quite spectacularly. Asiata appears to have mowed down the Saints team single handedly, by tackling big men round the legs. Several teams have deployed this technique against Walmsley and he goes down like a sack of spuds. Saints seem to be against anything that stops them being the dominant team in the league.

Bongser has just run Wellens' statement through Gobbledegoogle Translate which came out as:

"I am Paul Wellens. I took over as head coach of St Helens from the perennially successful Christian Woolf. As The Saints' hegemony crumbles in front of everyone's eyes, I would like to put on record that IT IS NOT MY FAULT!. It is everyone and everything else's fault and I feel sure that very few people from this suburb of Self-Pity-City will disagree."

Wellens or Wilkin - who's the biggest W?

Aw diddums Paul. Were we physically stronger than the Saints? Are we better coached? Get over it, you were beaten by a better team in every department. We repelled everything you threw at us and then hit you with 2 tries in 10 minutes. There was nothing wrong with the tackles. Asiata was going for the lower leg because the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Taken from Twitter. He needs to stop crying along with all the saints fans.

Sky have the double-dealer whinging in the bottom right of this screen. Sound is off and will stay that way.

Admin (good evening, how are you? Well, Bongser trusts). Can we have a pernanant "Ignore" button for this loop garbage, pretty please?

The irony is that SkY try very hard to pretend that the Challenge Cup doesn't exist but as soon as this clown starts moaning about it (waving a pen as if he can form his letters), they are all over it like Hello! magazine.

Next week: Knit your own sour grapes!

Wellens should be fined for bringing the game into disrepute. Moaning Minnie he's nowt else.

https://twitter.com/sethbarnes3_/status ... 1803110401

https://twitter.com/sethbarnes3_/status ... 1803110401

Will a ban for John bring Wellens' players back? No.

Will it save Wellens' job? It shouldn't.

Have Saints got a massive extended squad? Yes, that's what it's for!

Look at his eyes. He doesn't look a full shilling haha. Looks like a real psycho

Saints won't win owt this year. They won't even get to GF and he knows he's out of a job come the end of the season. Can we play you every week, Paul haha.

Wellens wasn't calling for a change to tackling technique here was he? https://twitter.com/DevlinDaryl/status/ ... 7519563779

Wellens wasn't calling for a change to tackling technique here was he? https://twitter.com/DevlinDaryl/status/ ... 7519563779

Wellens is comparing apples and pears. Knowles got pinged for a hip drop tackle (like Nisbet) Asiata was cleared of tackling round the legs (launching himself head first at the legs).

This is bringing the game into disrepute - he is basically saying the disciplinary panel are wrong

Dummies are still being spat out.

Asiata to be head-hunted on the 8th of September.

This will just rumble on and on as teams continue to not live up to past glories

With astute timing I found this recently posted highlights clip of Asiata at Cas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFZ2r2YjIU I'm sure those with sand in their nethers can do an edit of his apparently appalling tackle technique, which has results in 100% of injuries to all on the receiving end, it's a miracle any teams who've faced him have any players left.

With astute timing I found this recently posted highlights clip of Asiata at Cas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFZ2r2YjIU I'm sure those with sand in their nethers can do an edit of his apparently appalling tackle technique, which has results in 100% of injuries to all on the receiving end, it's a miracle any teams who've faced him have any players left.

As I have said previously, Jon Wilkin is too biased to be a pundit. He has been the one who started all this off and now Asiata is receiving death threats. Totally unacceptable. As Richard Silverwood has said, Saints forget some of there players technique. They have had players either sin binned or sent off in a good few games this season.

Player Welfare, Wilkin? Death threats toward Asiata, your doing, Wilkin?

Yes he works for both SkY and the Beeb as, for a retired RL player, he is relatively telegenic. His bias towards Saints (despite him pathetically protesting otherwise) is acceptable for the first-named broadcaster which is a "shock jock" tabloid of a channel, but the BBC has a mandate of neutrality and therefore he should never be allowed to appear on there again.

Quote ="Deeeekos"With astute timing I found this recently posted highlights clip of Asiata at Cas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFZ2r2YjIU I'm sure those with sand in their nethers can do an edit of his apparently appalling tackle technique, which has results in 100% of injuries to all on the receiving end, it's a miracle any teams who've faced him have any players left.'" I think you need to visit here instead of being obsessed with Mr. Asiata. https://www.sthelensgateway.info/faqs/m ... unselling/

Quote ="Deeeekos"With astute timing I found this recently posted highlights clip of Asiata at Cas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFZ2r2YjIU I'm sure those with sand in their nethers can do an edit of his apparently appalling tackle technique, which has results in 100% of injuries to all on the receiving end, it's a miracle any teams who've faced him have any players left.'" I think you need to visit here instead of being obsessed with Mr. Asiata. https://www.sthelensgateway.info/faqs/m ... unselling/

Delicious irony, with James Bell tackling with his head against Leeds tonight. Please explain that one away Wellens.

He'll say that Bell learned it during his TWO games under Adrian Lam last season.

Whilst stating that there has been dialogue with the RFL in the interim (though he doesn't want to go into it further!) Wellens stands by what he said.

Maybe he should "USE HIS HEAD!"

Then again.....

Quote ="Septimius Severus"Delicious irony, with James Bell tackling with his head against Leeds tonight. Please explain that one away Wellens.'" Exactly seppy. Get Beaumont on C4 2moz to point this out. This is the tackle https://twitter.com/SamB__1990/status/1 ... 3647282176

Quote ="Septimius Severus"Delicious irony, with James Bell tackling with his head against Leeds tonight. Please explain that one away Wellens.'" Exactly seppy. Get Beaumont on C4 2moz to point this out. This is the tackle https://twitter.com/SamB__1990/status/1 ... 3647282176

What do you expect? The league has said in no uncertain term there is nothing wrong with the tackle.

Yet Wellens has brought the game into disrepute by accusing the RFL failing to protect player welfare.
Now there are videos showing Stain players committing similar tackles in the game against Leeds.
HTH James.

I'm sure Asiata will carry on regardless but it does put him and the refs in a bit of a bind. Some 23 or so matches into the season and suddenly one player is the focus because of one match, or rather the over reaction to the fall out of one match.

You can't change how you naturally* tackle, if you do then that means clearly you think there was something wrong with it, carry on with it and you will be scrutinising to within an inch of existence and the refs too will continually have flies buzzing around them after every attempt.

*I say naturally, in the nearly two season of watching John at Leigh I've never noticed anything wrong with it, it is the way of the tackle, sometime you go for the ball, sometimes the hips and sometimes the legs, all the while gauging who else is in the tackle and how the opponent is moving. Then you end up with posts like this, being overly analytical and removing the joy from the actual physical contest on the field.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/66430364 Wellens and Rowley need to keep their mouths shut and use the correct channels to air their grievances.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/66430364 Wellens and Rowley need to keep their mouths shut and use the correct channels to air their grievances.

I think it just needs putting to bed now. There's nothing wrong with his tackling. He goes for the shins rather than the upper leg. It's not Asiata's fault that they are tall, heavy blokes who, when they fall, may land heavily on their knees. It's rugby not tick and pass.