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| Quote: The Yellow Giraffe "Saints have now started selling tickets for the game on Friday 26th. Wasn't this one heavily rumoured to be moving? I will probably get tickets anyway but it surprised me when they went on sale before the SKY picks had been announced.'"
Would've put good money on it being moved to Thursday, maybe the clubs have got the nod from Sky already ?
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| Quote: FearTheVee "I’m not sure what you want me to say - I have no issue with you having a view on what I write! If you think pointing out Saints having lots of players missing on edges after a defeat is arrogant so be it, I’m not going to lose any sleep about it chap.
I’ve also said Salford were tremendous and richly deserved the win.'"
And you shouldnt lose any sleep over it old chum my point is mainly other posters are very arrogant not so much you.
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| Just watching the Saints v Cas game on TV. Don’t see anything to be afraid of here!
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| Superb defensive team but if they can't bully you into submission they seem to be sorely lacking a plan b
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| Tommy Martyn rolled the entertainers line out pre game.
Still a character the bloke.
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| They were poor and a better side, or even a more disciplined Cas, would have rolled them over.
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| Was a scrappy win but they happen. Worrying part I imagine for saints is 1 point win vs Wakefield a battering by Salford and a game that should have been put to bed was allowed to be blown wide open. The miss match of Farimo to the young lad on the wing was shocking. Going off form and desire (teams fighting to survive and stay in top 6)you’d imagine all the games for saints should be difficult. Think our game and the KR game should be the break for them
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| Quote: apollosghost "Superb defensive team but if they can't bully you into submission they seem to be sorely lacking a plan b'"
The style of rugby is very Bradford Bulls under Brian Noble. Big bodies pounding you into submission. Successful but boring to watch but results are what its about and it will take a good performance in a knockout game to beat them
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| Quote: The Yellow Giraffe "Saints have now started selling tickets for the game on Friday 26th. Wasn't this one heavily rumoured to be moving? I will probably get tickets anyway but it surprised me when they went on sale before the SKY picks had been announced.'"
There was speculation that the game would be moved as the Latics are at home on the Saturday. However, unless Sky moves the match to another day it will be played on the Friday.
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| Pretty unconvinced by Saints today, they should have dismantled Cas as they were woeful for the vast majority of the game. At 20-0 Saints of old would have gone on to put another 2-3 scores on them with ease but instead they limped home by letting in three tries which thankfully for them were all unconverted.
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| Quote: MattyB "Pretty unconvinced by Saints today, they should have dismantled Cas as they were woeful for the vast majority of the game. At 20-0 Saints of old would have gone on to put another 2-3 scores on them with ease but instead they limped home by letting in three tries which thankfully for them were all unconverted.'"
I agree Saints of old would have put Cas to the sword this one however are over rated and living on the past when they were superior in my opinion.
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| Quote: WWste "Was a scrappy win but they happen. Worrying part I imagine for saints is 1 point win vs Wakefield a battering by Salford and a game that should have been put to bed was allowed to be blown wide open. The miss match of Farimo to the young lad on the wing was shocking. Going off form and desire (teams fighting to survive and stay in top 6)you’d imagine all the games for saints should be difficult. Think our game and the KR game should be the break for them'"
The young lad on the wing (Dan Hill ) hurt his shoulder early on i'm amazed Cas didn't target him more
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| Quote: MattyB "Pretty unconvinced by Saints today, they should have dismantled Cas as they were woeful for the vast majority of the game. At 20-0 Saints of old would have gone on to put another 2-3 scores on them with ease but instead they limped home by letting in three tries which thankfully for them were all unconverted.'"
We were poor in the 2nd half yesterday but that left edge of ours was all over the place. We ended up with Roby at centre and Davies on the wing at one point and our left backrower in the sin bin. Davies must be the slowest 3/4 I've ever seen. So yes we "let in" 3 tries but there were clear reasons why that edge was targeted as our entire 1st choice was missing (Dodd, Matautia, Percival and Grace) and it clearly showed. Out of those 4, Matautia is back next week and Percival hopefully not too far off so things will pick up.
Yesterday was just a case of getting the win and moving on. I think "limped home" nails it to be fair. Our performances need to improve without a doubt but I am not too worried just yet. We are going through a lull but bar the Salford game we are still winning. Hull away is a bigger test next week and then of course Wigan away on the horizon too so we need to start ramping things up again.
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| All banter aside, I wouldn’t take a bit of notice of Saints form this past few weeks. They’ve clearly targeted the Wigan and Huddersfield games and were very good in both and they’ve then had plenty of disruption since and have looked a bit short of motivation in games at Wakey, Salford and Cas. When the proper games come round and presuming they’ll have a stronger team out, they’ll be unbelievably tough to crack. I’m confident we can give it a real go but we’ll need to be better then we’ve been in the other games against them this season and I include the semi in that.
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| Agree with Nicky.
This isn't the time to get overconfident.
We've been improving all season. We no longer rely on Field to do a solo special like we did in the first half dozen games as they are all combining and contributing.
Our forwards have been building all season and we have a real point of difference in our pack now with Mago, KPP as well as the addition of Cooper who gives us ability to make more hard yards.
And, one area where we are easily better than saints is strength in depth and flexibility.
Bateman, Farrell, 2 starting hookers, starting half, two starting centres, Havard all missing this week and we didn't notice it.
What we do know is Saints will be hard to break down and compete to the last second. We just need to loo at Magic again to remember that.
I think we can beat them now and have a great chance in the GF rather than an outside chance at the start of the season, but we'll not have an easy game against them this season.
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