ComeOnYouUll wrote:Round one and Saints look nailed on for the title. They have an awesome squad.
Completely agree. It is not difficult to predict what every Fc fan was thinking about next weeks game if they were watching last nights Sky opener. Talk about pressurising rugby. No slow start and building into the season for the Saints. Very impressive ....... and scary.
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Evans and Napa know enough about each other to exploit any weakness, they were together at the Roosters as young players and neither took a backward step, so they should be an interesting match up. Saints are relentless from minute 1 to 80 and they must have that culture, as a club, running through them because even the inexperienced players they introduce buy into that from game one. That intensity must be the same at training, it isn't something you can just turn on, I'd imagine. It would be interesting to see what it would be like should they suffer an injury crisis though, as beyond the first 17, like us, they don't have a lot of SL tested depth.
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GrahamBray wrote:Evans and Napa know enough about each other to exploit any weakness, they were together at the Roosters as young players and neither took a backward step, so they should be an interesting match up. Saints are relentless from minute 1 to 80 and they must have that culture, as a club, running through them because even the inexperienced players they introduce buy into that from game one. That intensity must be the same at training, it isn't something you can just turn on, I'd imagine. It would be interesting to see what it would be like should they suffer an injury crisis though, as beyond the first 17, like us, they don't have a lot of SL tested depth.
Whilst St's have a very good squad what impresses me the most about them is that they play with such intensity from 0 mins to 80mins. Their line speed particularly in defence was outstanding and they never gave Catalan any time or space after the first 20-25mins. When we play with that level of intensity we also look a much different team the problem is it only lasts for about 10-15 minutes in a game. I am hoping our line speed is one of the area's that BH has worked on and drilled in to the players especially when defending and we close down the 10M quickly as as the oppostion ptb instead of standing still allowing teams to make easy metres.
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The Dentist Wilf wrote:Completely agree. It is not difficult to predict what every Fc fan was thinking about next weeks game if they were watching last nights Sky opener. Talk about pressurising rugby. No slow start and building into the season for the Saints. Very impressive ....... and scary.
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Think Adam will realise just how far away we are from being a top side when we play Saints next week especially if Wakefield do a number on us
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