Well done to Saints for cracking start to the season. They came up with the best performance of the first round.
My top three are;-
Lomax
Farge
Percy
A great start.........!
Well done to Saints for cracking start to the season. They came up with the best performance of the first round.
My top three are;-
Lomax
Farge
Percy
A great start.........!
A great start all around . As expected the smaller clubs getting beat . Warrington looking like another year for them . Leigh should have a field day next week . Bring on round two
Do you think that by the end of the season we will all recognise the fact that Theo's surname is Fages, not Farge?
Really positive workman like start. All good for me. Theo played well, I think he needs to. Interesting Powell didn't pick Richo today. I do not think we have missed much with that lad.
I didn't see the Hull v Huddersfield game, but I think ours was certainly the least inspiring watch of all of the other five games. I suspect this is going to be another season when the winning v entertainment argument gets trotted out regularly, as it did throughout 2020. Despite all of the three quarters scoring from plucking kicks out of the air or feeding off a dropped ball, they were completely starved of service throughout. It was a good win, but I enjoyed all the other games so much more.
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To be honest, the Percival no try resulted from a bit of decent service (if Lomax’s pass hadn’t gone forward ). I can’t honestly remember the moves that preceded the Lomax no try. Did Salford lose the ball? I think they did.
I enjoyed the Leigh game best until Wigan won but the unsuccessful fight back by Hull KR against Catalans was pretty entertaining. I didn’t see Warrington v Castleford.
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The problem is that we over rely on Lomax coming up with a play on every set even more so when Coote is not in the side. Woolf has got Fages concentrating more on a kick pressure game and Roby doesn't scoot as much, when we lost Coote last season and Welsby played that position Wollf had him playing right behind the PTB in a narrow channel supporting the props. In the Salford game Woolf had Welsby playing with wider supprt play to dreate the extra man when going out wide but when Percival went off our structure changed.
Our opening SL fixtures are:
Salford
HKR
Wakey
Hudds
Leigh
Salford
I know fixtures are aimed at putting 'plumb' fixtures back to when fans are able to attend, but that must be the 'easiest' (on paper) start to a season ever.
What comes after is tougher - Catalans (a, but TBC), Hull (h), Leeds (a), Wire (h), HKR (a), Cas (a), scum (h). IMO we should be rotating from early on to keep players fresh and match-fit.
(apologies if someone's already made this point)
I reckon its going to be a good season. Plenty teams have made good purchases and it should be very competitive. The biggest question mark probably hangs over Wigan. I think they massively overachieved last year. They do have some good youngsters but are at a real crossroads with O’Loughlin retiring and the Hastings rumours. Anyway, i think we’re still the team to beat.
screaming in the family corner, scaring the kiddies
I do agree, but after that 2007-2011 period, I find myself just wanting to stretch ahead of 'perennial jammy b*stards' Leeds in the SL era trophies. I really don't think we get anything like the praise we deserve for dominating SL, and those 5 GF defeats play a part in that IMO (although even before that, focus was more on Bratfud, despite us amassing more trophies and beating them in every final we met in during the SL era)