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sergeant pepper "Quote: sergeant pepper "Here's the thing - no matter what they say, that Saints side isn't as good as it used to be. Same goes for Leeds, same goes for us, plus add in Bradford and it's reasonable to think what's the point? Is it to see Hudds, Cats or another team who offers nothing get given a place at the top table? All those home grown players. All those away fans adding to the general wealth of all clubs ...
I used to watch Newton Vs KFC, Scully Vs Faz, Long Vs Lam etc - all for a cheaper price than what I do now. We've not stagnated as a sport - we've gone back.'"
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I get what you are saying. The Saints team under Woolf is the greatest defensive Saints team I've ever seen in nearly 40 years of watching us however when you think back to the early 2000s we had a prime Wellens, Long, Cunningham, Sculthorpe etc plus the likes of Newlove and Joynt.
Its different eras now though with Sports Science and GPS trackers etc, players take better care of their diets and there's much less players with real flair. Thats for a whole other conversation though so I'll try and get back on topic.
The reason I thought we were a hard watch at times last season is more to do with the standard of the opposition and the fact that some games were won by HT. That coupled with the non-existent away support often made a second half meaningless.
However it does seem sometimes that we are misty eyed and nostalgic but only remember the good times. Some Saints fans seem to recall that Knowsley Road was packed out every week and with a great atmosphere. That wasn't the case at all, many weeks I was there with it half full and like a library. The problem of course is that given we have only been in the new stadium since 2012 then clearly there aren't many great memories and occasions to have been created as yet so all the great memories come from the old days.
