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The guy that ALWAYS impresses me is Puletua. Without a doubt the first player I would pick for Leeds from the Saints team if allowed to.'"
Do me a favour , as good as Puletua is , Roby by plenty  |
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| Quote: Buck Tarbrush "Do me a favour , as good as Puletua is , Roby by plenty ![]()
Yeah alright....you're right. Puletua second then. 
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| Quote: nantwichexile "The guy that ALWAYS impresses me is Puletua. Without a doubt the first player I would pick for Leeds from the Saints team if allowed to.'"
What about Meli? The guy has helped us win several GF's, the least we could do is offer him a bumper contract to end his career with.  |
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i enjoyed the game. for me it was a proper old school game rather than a 38-32 try fest
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| Quote: ThePrinter "What about Meli? The guy has helped us win several GF's, the least we could do is offer him a bumper contract to end his career with. ![]()
The bloke is slowly morphing into Paleaaesina , and we are ok for props ! 
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| Quote: tad rhino "i enjoyed the game. for me it was a proper old school game rather than a 38-32 try fest'"
Said the same elsewhere. The game was totally absorbing and could have gone either way. I enjoyed the defensive efforts shown. |
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| Quote: Buck Tarbrush "The bloke is slowly morphing into Paleaaesina , and we are ok for props ! ![]()
Amor and Griffin obviously thought so too and have moved on: they were both far too young to play first team prop for Leeds of course.
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| Quote: tad rhino "i enjoyed the game. for me it was a proper old school game rather than a 38-32 try fest'"
So did I, as I have done all the games I've seen on Sky so far this year (even Saints/Hudds, which wasn't close but very enjoyable to watch such a good Giants performance whilst intruging to see how poorly Saints played under Brown for the first time, especially considering a lot had them tipped for top spot after 27 Rounds) I've mentioned something on the VT along the lines of.....
- if teams don't score loads then it must be because the attack was rubbish (can't have been because of good defence)
- if teams do score plenty then it must be the opposition defence was terrible (can't be that the team performed well in attack)
Unfortunately this is the view that some take on SL games.
For me the only really problem with the game was how dead the Saints crowd was, even before kick-off. |
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Quote: ThePrinter " intruging to see how poorly Saints played under Brown for the first time, especially considering a lot had them tipped for top spot after 27 Rounds) '"
I wonder who would do such a crazy thing: forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php? ... 6&start=23 |
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Quote: ThePrinter " intruging to see how poorly Saints played under Brown for the first time, especially considering a lot had them tipped for top spot after 27 Rounds) '"
I wonder who would do such a crazy thing: forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php? ... 6&start=23 | |
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| Quote: tvoc "I wonder who would do such a crazy thing:
I admit I did (this is why I don't bet), I wasn't the only one, and if not first then quite a few had them 2nd. Don't believe many/if any saw them starting this poorly, infact a few thought a Huddersfield-like steaming start was on the cards after the first 10 Rounds.
Of course they'll always be those who'll come out afterwards and try and say they knew Saints would be on only 5pts after 5 games and without a win at home in 3 matches and looking fairly poor so far .......and of course we'll all 'believe' them!
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12 out of 53 entries had St Helens finishing top and it's way too early at this stage to know for sure if they were wrong to do so either - albeit they have been pretty poor so far.
(For the record it's : Backwoodsman, lionarmour87, Gotcha, Sal Paradise, Clearwing, chesterwednesday, William Eve, TrinityIHC, Mr. Zucchini Head, Damo-Leeds and BullCharge : that agree with you.)
I seem to recall Saints getting off to a six points from six games start in 2007 - that didn't prevent them finishing P1 after the regular rounds that season.
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I said Saints on another forum too. You can never right anyone off after just 1 month of the season. I mean, come on. They are 3 points off the lead, as poor as they have been.
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| Quote: tad rhino "i enjoyed the game. for me it was a proper old school game rather than a 38-32 try fest'"
I agree, I also don't think it was as boring or devoid of flair as some people have said it was. I thought it was 2 teams running hard and defending hard, and I thought there was some great, sharp short passing going on too. |
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| Quote: tvoc "12 out of 53 entries had St Helens finishing top and it's way too early at this stage to know for sure if they were wrong to do so either - albeit they have been pretty poor so far.
(For the record it's
They might turn it around. All I said was it was intriguing to see them so poor in the Hudds game (and it was), I was expecting a statement of intent start and thought Brown might go like Wane in 2012 and try storm through the regular season and target the LLS (that might still be his intentions, but hasn't happened so far). They'll pull their socks up eventually (Saints usually do), just a question of 'will they do it soon enough?' for a top 2. If not then 3rd place isn't a disaster for them (only some of us on the prediction comp.) it got them to a GF in 2011 and nearly again last year.
I didn't/don't expect to be one of the front runners in the prediction comp. BTW (as i said, never been a betting man) but after 27 rounds I'll gladly hold my hand up to the ones I've gotten wrong (thought Cas would be 8th last year!) I put my guess in with a few weeks to spare IIRC, if I did it again the night before the first game it would've probably seen a few changes (Widnes might've got bumped up a spot on getting Hock)
Regarding the 2007 start though, must be noted that Saints & Leeds were way ahead of the rest of the league around that period. They managed to finish top even with 8 losses, Wigan (1st) and Wire (2nd) last year only defeated 6 times. They've got to go away to Wire this week and that could see them with 3 losses with 21 still to play, including (AWAY - WIGAN, LEEDS, CATALANS, HUDDS, HULL) (HOME - WIGAN, CATALANS, WIRE) (MAGIC - WIRE)
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..... I'd play him at prop of course 
