This isn't true at all. There's a completely different atmosphere in pre match than there is training, especially when there's a crowd watching you warm up.

If Savelio gets called up he now knows the routine on gameday and what is expected of him.

You do know we were playing Huddersfield dont you?

Well, sort of a crowd.

It's funny isn't it, that if there was a team at saints playing as Hudds are at the moment, we would have a full house every week.

I assume you are being sarcastic?

Well, I think I understood what was being said i.e. if we were as good as hudds are at present, would we fill our ground?
Who knows, we haven't been as good as hudds are now since we moved to the new ground?

Well, we didn't fill Knowsley Road when we were winning everything there was on offer so I can't see us filling Langtree Park if we played like Hudds tbh. (That we didn't fill KR when winning everything on offer was why I thought he was being sarcastic)

Agreed, but we would certainly be getting more than 5,203 against a "big name" club.
In fact when did we last have a crowd as low as that?

I would imagine in a Challenge Cup game? Not sure how we do in play offs, attendance wise. Other than that, probably the 1980s!

To go back to the Savelio comments.

I think it was good man management to introduce him to the first team.

He wont be familiar with the first team players, nor they of he. Not to mention the atmosphere, banter etc.

Essentially it would have been like your first day of work , with the added tension of being in the same room as players you grew up idolising from the TV couch or terrace.
That can make a kid very nervous, shy and affect their performance.

Far better to introduce him so he becomes one of the gang and doesn't feel out of place. That way he should perform in a more relaxed state when on the pitch, when the time comes for him to make his debut. I suspect this may be against Salford.

salford

That was only because of a blizzard really.