Quote ="fartown since 1961"Firstly I agree with the Stone sentiment however;
In over 50 years of watching some great St Helens teams thats one of the worst I've seen and a weaker one than the one we put almost 50 points on at Newcastle.
Since then we've strengthened so stop this no expectation rot as Saints were there for the taking yesterday, we had the field position, opportunities and strongest team this season on parade we had enough territory to win two games just once again we don't convert our chances.
At 18-22 we were on top and looking like we could go on to win until we tried a miracle play and gave Saints a 90 metre 'freebie.'
We had two disallowed tries and a stupid obstruction when likely to score and generally didn't play too badly.
All we had to do was build pressure our pack was playing well but we had a brain explosion as we have in almost every close match this season and 'blew it.'
With all due respect to Leigh et all if we play like that in the middle 8's cut out the stupid mistakes and build pressure with good sensible kicking then we have nothing to fear.
I agree Stone is new but if he's any good then he should realise we have the basics of a decent team and the time is right when on top to grind out a result if he does nothing but install a basic game plan and stop the silly mistakes,kicking off twice out on the full for example, then we ain't got too much to fear and I expect to see improvement in the small areas in the short term otherwise why is he here ??'"
I agree with much of what you say - but how DOES stone stop players kicking out on the full, throwing the ball forwards or dropping it? Unless he has a magic spell he's as unable to prevent errors any more than PA was!
The players are making the errors it's down to them to do better.
