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18821_1298880800.jpg [quote='Fishsta"']I've always thought of McGuire as a good player, and I wouldn't normally wish injury on any player, but there was a certain hint of poetic justice to that.
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Another classic:
[quote='Fishsta']You forgot to take off the "Saints Reduction Factor" when calculating the ban.
Standard suspension / Saints Reduction Factor = Actual ban for Saints player.
Therefore (2 / 3) = 0.666
0.666 < 1 therefore actual ban equals "less than 1 match".
Therefore ZERO.[/quote]
Give the girl her dummy back.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_18821.jpg |
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| Quote: Lord Tony Smith "Where was your fans last night?
"Is there a fire drill?"'"
Enjoy It while It lasts. Next season we'll p1ss all over you attendances.
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| Quote: chris_joynt's_barber "my stobart experience:
parking: got there an hr before k.o hoping to park on the college carpark... not a chance. ended up in a side street. seen some parking on asda(did anybody park on there? and did you get a ticket??) even saw some parking on the police station carpark!
the stadium: we sat in the 1st row in the north stand and got drenched! shades of twickers... it brought a whole new meaning to 'grass roots rugby' !! in between the camera man,the microphone man,the linesman,the ball boys and the stewards we saw some of the game
Parked on Asda with no issues.
The fans from the scaff can't/won't sit in the North stand because many will have 'standing' season tickets. Unfortunately in any large groups of singing fans will be separated throughout the East stand due to the seating too. How this will compare in the new gaff concerns me & is another reason I'd have preferred a Halliwell Jones style seating/standing layout.
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| Quote: Don Brennan "Enjoy It while It lasts. Next season we'll p1ss all over you attendances.'"
Believe that when I see it. What do you reckon your attendance will be on Friday? 6-7k?
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18821_1298880800.jpg [quote='Fishsta"']I've always thought of McGuire as a good player, and I wouldn't normally wish injury on any player, but there was a certain hint of poetic justice to that.
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Another classic:
[quote='Fishsta']You forgot to take off the "Saints Reduction Factor" when calculating the ban.
Standard suspension / Saints Reduction Factor = Actual ban for Saints player.
Therefore (2 / 3) = 0.666
0.666 < 1 therefore actual ban equals "less than 1 match".
Therefore ZERO.[/quote]
Give the girl her dummy back.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_18821.jpg |
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| Quote: Lord Tony Smith "Believe that when I see it. What do you reckon your attendance will be on Friday? 6-7k?'"
On Friday? probably at lot less than that.
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| Something interesting to bare in mind when Wigan were forced to move a home playoff game to the Stobart in september 2008 the attendance was just 6806. This was against Bradford.
Saints attendance therefore holds up well. Especially when you consider Wigans far larger fan base.
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| Quote: chris_joynt's_barber "my stobart experiencewe will get out sung by every away teams fans that visit'"
You mean by the 20 harlequin fans?
My take is that the dire fans are always good value and also that we got off to a s*it start and the game had gone by 18 mins so the fans were a bit confused and depressed.
Lets see what we are like for the next game.
Strangely when I watched the game from 7 rows up in the North Stand, I thought we were very very poor, but when I watched the recording on sky, we looked pretty good against a side that defended really well and managed to score on each of the not many occasions they came down our end. Our forwards did OK and were definately not "owned" by dire.
It seemed we had a lot of territory and I would like to see the stats on metres and territory etc.
Where we went wrong was an awful attack and a brilliant dire defence.
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| as a wire fan, i dont really think the hoodoo has broken, for one there isnt a hoodoo any more as KR was the hoodoo not any other stadium ( this in itself surprises me as we couldnt beat you home or away except for that one game the week before the CC where we beat you at wilderspool, so if the is a hoodoo it is against saints completely)
however i dont think moving to the new ground will make many big differences to at widnes, both have 4 seating stands and the crowd will not be as naturally vocal, it happened when we moved from the zoo to the HJ. singing fans become split up and theres nowt you can do about it. i think you will miss KR for at least 5-10 years, i dont think you would have beat cas in the last league game anywhere other than KR, the fans will to get the team to score ensured the win, end of.
i just hope that the new ground does retain the old saints/wire atmosphere with brilliant entertaining spectacles for the sport but with maybe a few more wire wins than KR provided lol.
good luck this year at your foster home and for many years to come at the new place (except against wire lol)
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| Quote: saint at wire "You mean by the 20 harlequin fans?
Stats from League Express have confirmed my thoughts and show that our forwards were NOT owned in any shape or form!
Total metres
Saints - 1380
Dire - 1260
Tackles
Saints - 315
Dire - 355
Most Metres Made
Robes - 161
2nd Most Metres Made
Jammer - 148
So called Man of the Match Carvell:
7th most metres at 107 (even Ade made 124)
All other stats between the two teams are similar.
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| Of course we weren't owned. We just lacked the halfbacks to turn our field position into tries. No good continually running into a brick wall. We needed the equipment to get over the wall but one halfback was too inexperienced and the other had his mind elsewhere.
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10123_1554736671.jpg "I've not come 'alfway round t'world fot watch us lose. And I've come halfway round t'world, an' av watched um lose":d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_10123.jpg |
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Aaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
You should be on stage.
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7978_1347877546.jpg living in cornwall (result) not watching the saints (very very bad!):d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_7978.jpg |
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| Quote: Tony Stark "Parked on Asda with no issues.
GOOD TO KNOW.
The fans from the scaff can't/won't sit in the North stand because many will have 'standing' season tickets. '"
ah right. cheers for that. goint to be a looong old season at the stobart then
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| Reading this thread just reminds me of when we first moved to the JJB - the transistion from great old rugby ground to crappy seated dullness is a massaive shock to the system.
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| Quote: ROBINSON "Aaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
You should be on stage.'"
Who is then? Is it Wigan, who couldn't sell their allocation in there first CC semi final against local rivals in how many years, we had to sell them for you. Or is it Wigan, who Catalan picked to play in Barcalona after coming out and saying they take easily the most every year.
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| Quote: Lord Tony Smith "Who is then? Is it Wigan, who couldn't sell their allocation in there first CC semi final against local rivals in how many years, we had to sell them for you. Or is it Wigan, who Catalan picked to play in Barcalona after coming out and saying they take easily the most every year.'"
Fail!
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| Quote: chris_joynt's_barber "ah right. cheers for that. goint to be a looong old season at the stobart then
Can't promise it will always be that way on the Asda but there's plenty of other parking nearby on the new retail park I think its M&S and/or Next.
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