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| Did not get to see the match tonight or listen to it, so it's an impressive scoreline given the London resurgence.
Any feedback on the match greatly appreciated.
Always nice to nil a team.
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| We looked determined to defend, kicking the ball early quite often. Defence was good, scrambling well when necessary. The attack, despite some flash passing, was at times rusty-looking with wayward passes and several knock-ons. Luckily, London were suffering the same, so it could have been partly due to the rain.
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| It was one of the worst games I've seen. I was bored out of my mind. The best part of the night was the hooter going!
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| The best thing about the match was the hooter going at the end of the game.
I think a third of the crowd had by then already left Langtree park.
People were streaming out with 15 minutes left, as the match was utterly devoid of any invention or excitement.
All of our trys were literally one out fall over the line jobs from an an inside ball.
The only excitement was provided by Londons winger Dixon who was a real live wire.
Lomax was absolutely shocking.
Our wingers didnt get a single running chance in the entire match. Infact the only time they got the ball was on kick returns.
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| Quote: bewareshadows "Did not get to see the match tonight '"
You were so lucky.
I will never get those long hours back. They are gone for good. I so wished I'd stayed home to watch the wheelchair basketball, which has stuff like skill and pace and excitement in it, all of which were missing from that match tonight, including Saints, who couldn't attack a sandwich. The only difference between us and London this evening was that we had the better defence. London clearly suffered for their week off; they have lost their momentum, which was a great shame as I had hoped we would have a contest. Not to be.
Instead we had Silverdud blowing the pea out of his whistle, London and Saints both unable to muster any kind of attack, and London with a leaky enough defence to ensure we won the game.
No way am I paying to see that next week. I shall watch our fourth pounding by Wigan from the comfort of my living room. Unless there happens to be a wheelchair basketball match on at the same time, in which case I will watch that instead.
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| Quote: The Chair Maker "The best thing about the match was the hooter going at the end of the game.
I think a third of the crowd had by then already left Langtree park.
People were streaming out with 15 minutes left, as the match was utterly devoid of any invention or excitement'"
Agreed.
Worst game ive seen for long time.
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| Can anyone think of any home game this season where we have played with intensity, skill and entertainment.............I,m struggling to think of any.
This is probably the worst saints team, performance wise in the era of superleague, yet we are in top 4. Just shows how the standard of Superleague is riding on the bottom.
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| Quote: SaintsFan "You were so lucky.
I will never get those long hours back. They are gone for good. I so wished I'd stayed home to watch the wheelchair basketball, which has stuff like skill and pace and excitement in it, all of which were missing from that match tonight, including Saints, who couldn't attack a sandwich. The only difference between us and London this evening was that we had the better defence. London clearly suffered for their week off; they have lost their momentum, which was a great shame as I had hoped we would have a contest. Not to be.
Instead we had Silverdud blowing the pea out of his whistle, London and Saints both unable to muster any kind of attack, and London with a leaky enough defence to ensure we won the game.
No way am I paying to see that next week. I shall watch our fourth pounding by Wigan from the comfort of my living room. Unless there happens to be a wheelchair basketball match on at the same time, in which case I will watch that instead.'"
A plyer from St. Helens is in the wheelchair Basketball team. (Dan Highcock)
Regarding the game I found it dull as ditchwater tonight. spoiled in the first place by silverwood's stop start approach to the game.
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| Quote: bewareshadows "Wow'"
I had to talk myself into staying for 2nd half.
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| Quote: Judder Man "Can anyone think of any home game this season where we have played with intensity, skill and entertainment.............I,m struggling to think of any.
This is probably the worst saints team, performance wise in the era of superleague, yet we are in top 4. Just shows how the standard of Superleague is riding on the bottom.'"
In the past there have been many dull games, however the one thing that kept you watching the game was that there was always the chance of a great try to liven up an otherwise dull afternoon or evening. Quite often that would happen against poor opposition as Saints would be able to break from deep and score what looked like a cracking try, even though it was scored against paper thin defence.
Tonight however we saw a side quite happy to kick the ball on the third tackle, play for territory and penalties, force the turnover, then fall over the line from 10 yards out. It was more akin to rugby union tactics, than traditional RL.
The fact these tactics are good enough to ensure a top 4 league finish is a shocking indictment of the league at present.
Teams should have to win matches not rely on the opposition giving away penalties and dropping the ball.
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| So worse than the Warrington game??
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| Quote: Agent Mulder "A plyer from St. Helens is in the wheelchair Basketball team. (Dan Highcock) '"
I think they got a drubbing tonight but I've recorded the match and will watch tomorrow. I really enjoy the basketball. It's much better than non-wheelchair basketball, and one helluva lot better than watching Saints fail to attack a sandwich!
Quote: Agent Mulder "Regarding the game I found it dull as ditchwater tonight. spoiled in the first place by silverwood's stop start approach to the game.'"
Jeez, wasn't he so up himself tonight? He just wouldn't stop blowing the bloody whistle. It drove me and everyone around me nuts. But that aside, we were shocking with ball in hand; utterly clueless. At least London had Dixon. It got so bad at one point me and my mate were hoping Dixon would score. He certainly deserved to. But if he had then that might have livened us up a bit. Might not either since we've looked pretty much the same all season, bar the post 'kick up the backside' match against Leeds at Langtree.
No way am I spending my rare notes on a drubbing by Wigan next week. No way. If there is any of it left, it's wheelchair basketball for me!
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| Quote: bewareshadows "So worse than the Warrington game??'"
We defended OK near our own line for quite a few sets, don,t how the broncos managed to score 66 against the wire and then turn into a damp squid for this game.
We,ve had 2 games now with very little intensity, if Catalans win this Sunday, might be worth to go all out next week to finish third with some confidence for the play offs..
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| A truly horrific night. What I saw there tonight was potentially the worst game I've ever seen. It just had no intensity to it at all. London, away from the Sky cameras and their few home fans were appalling and the result was both teams going through the motions for 80 minutes.
I know there are still a few deluded fans on here who believe we have a chance in the Play Offs, but after that surely they would struggle to see any positives in our short term future. Simply awful tonight. We just have no direction at all, no leadership on the field at all. Wellens is an absolute joke of a captain, he was very nearly sent off tonight after yet another stupid, childish rant at an official who got the decision against him right. The halfbacks were simply terrible. Lance tries hard, but he has no experience of playing in the halves and everything seems so off the cuff, and not in a good way. He's crying out to be playing fullback, again tonight it's him chasing back and tackling their breaking players and his pace from deep would be a useful option. Poor J-Lo had his worst ever game tonight. Again, he simply isn't a halfback, none of it comes naturally, it's all forced. Neither have a kicking game and we're crying out for Lee Gaskell's controlling influence. Where is he? He got us to a Grand Final last season and now he's not good enough? Why????
Another frustrating aspect of the game was the goalkicking. Why? Just why? Are we going to mess about like that all year next season? FFS get Foster back and stick him on the wing, he'll do no worse than Makinson, who again contributes nothing tonight.
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