Quote: runningman29 "Sorry to be blunt but its what we are esp with what must go down as the worst half back pairing in donkey’s years.'"
Saints bottled it this year.
We bottled it in 2011, played well in 2012 but just missed out due to lack of experience and really bottled it in the second half in 2013.
The other finals we’ve lost were, for me, expected.
If we have the worst half back pairing in donkey’s years how have we bottled it exactly?
Six weeks ago I was saying how I thought we are about as average a side a you can get and we’d be lucky to make the top 4 with our form. Outside a run of 8 wins in the Spring we’ve been a below mid table side.
Getting to two finals and making fourth despite having such poor stats [outside those 8 wins in a row our season has been]:
P24 W10 D1 L12
Not even won half the games we’ve played outside the 8 wins in a row. Even two of those wins were against a second string Catalans and a terrible Hull.
Bottlers is not the word for this team. I’d say overachievers and a damning indictment for the rest of this competition who couldn’t even get above us into the top 4 our beat us in cup games to get to both finals!