Quote St pete="St pete"We are now in may. I'm sure he'd be match fit by now. I don't think he's happy at the moment.'" Doesn't sound like it? (Sketchy source I know!) www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby-league ... -St-Helens Fitness is a major problem at the moment, if Thompson is fit, a few weeks off could be the solution for a mini pre season on his own

Quote St pete="St pete"We are now in may. I'm sure he'd be match fit by now. I don't think he's happy at the moment.'" Doesn't sound like it? (Sketchy source I know!) www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby-league ... -St-Helens Fitness is a major problem at the moment, if Thompson is fit, a few weeks off could be the solution for a mini pre season on his own

I'm sure being fit is likely.
(I'm not a training expert)

But I'd have thought you build up muscle mass in preseason etc which can be caught up during the season.

I recall when I used to go to friendlies that the players always looked bigger due to lots of weight training in pre season.

Players who miss pre season due to injury or internationals do tend to struggle more the following season, but maybe that's just my mind fooling me.

Quote bewareshadows="bewareshadows"I'm sure being fit is likely. (I'm not a training expert) But I'd have thought you build up muscle mass in preseason etc which can be caught up during the season. I recall when I used to go to friendlies that the players always looked bigger due to lots of weight training in pre season. Players who miss pre season due to injury or internationals do tend to struggle more the following season, but maybe that's just my mind fooling me.'" It's very very difficult to gain mass and strength during the season, because you can't really train as hard with the weights if your first 1-2 days of the week are recovering for a game and then you can't do much towards the end of the week because of the game coming up. There's also a study that has come out recently on Super League players (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27075963) which shows for every additional 10 pre-season sessions participated in, the chance of injury is 17% lower. Missing a pre-season can be huge for a player.

Quote bewareshadows="bewareshadows"I'm sure being fit is likely. (I'm not a training expert) But I'd have thought you build up muscle mass in preseason etc which can be caught up during the season. I recall when I used to go to friendlies that the players always looked bigger due to lots of weight training in pre season. Players who miss pre season due to injury or internationals do tend to struggle more the following season, but maybe that's just my mind fooling me.'" It's very very difficult to gain mass and strength during the season, because you can't really train as hard with the weights if your first 1-2 days of the week are recovering for a game and then you can't do much towards the end of the week because of the game coming up. There's also a study that has come out recently on Super League players (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27075963) which shows for every additional 10 pre-season sessions participated in, the chance of injury is 17% lower. Missing a pre-season can be huge for a player.

Sorry typing on my phone should have been can't rather than can.

Defenses on top. Tries just from kicks.

Some good interplay between Walsh/Fages/Lomax, are we going to see some more creative game plan from now on. Walsh has has stepped up his game pro Easter period.

Two wins and the boards fall silent.

Need another loss quickly to enthuse the fans.

Is everyone on holiday who used to post on here?

Or have most people migrated to RedVee?

Hardly anything has been posted about yesterday's winning match or much else.
I know for example that Widnes supporters don't really use the RL Fans site and they have their own fan site. Is this just a general drift way to fan sites? Is it to avoid trolls?

Quiet day on redvee too.
Combination of it being a win, small away game, low expectations of cas, it's a bank holiday weekend,
People just got better things to do, and it runs against the current online narrative of all is bad, we will struggle to make top 8 never mind top 4 and everything Cunningham does must be wrong.

Just wait till we lose then people will have the motivation.

Maybe people are just bored of saints and bored of super league in general. I'm finding it very hard to watch full 80 min games on sky and as I've said on here before I've lost interest in watching saints due to being very bored.

Been a season ticket holder for God knows how many years and this year is first year I've not gone a home game. I don't go any away games these days which I usually go 80% of away games.

I don't know if it's just me falling out of love with super league or the game is as poor as it's coming across to me but I'm definitely bored at our games.

I can't comment on non-TV games, which rather restricts my contributions. Sorry.

I think its a combination of other sources of social media and super league being a bit stale these days, also nearly every team has loads of first choice players missing through injury so there isn't much excitement to write home about.
Warrington are the most active forum for obvious reasons, for us we are just ticking over until something exciting happens which might only happen until the business end of the season.