The early kicking was working brilliantly in the second half and got us complete territorial advantage for the first 20 minutes - the try just wouldn't come off it that's all. It was an inspired tactic and well done to the coaching team for putting it in and turning an at that point hopelessly lost game right back in our favour. I must admit I nearly jumped out of my seat when we were still doing it 14 points down with 10 minutes to go though....

That's possibly the difference between having 2 experienced players at halfback, and having an experienced halfback. The coaching team at half time can change the gameplan and offer a solution, but they cannont continually change it through out the 2nd half. Lance being an experienced player could employ that tactic for the 2nd half. If he was an experienced half he may have recognised that it needed changing towards the end of that half.

Indeed - I think it called Hohaia's suitability to be the longer term "brain" in the halves heavily into question that he was still mindlessly carrying out the coach's H/T instructions way past the point at which basic common sense dictated that they needed to be ditched and more immediate tactics pursued instead. This is why we need a genuine #7 going forward as I don't think we have anyone in the squad at the moment really capable of making and directing the team through those kinds of on-the-fly decisions.

To be fair, St Helen's have not been the entertainers for some years now.



Forum name change needed.

Thought i'd help you out with your forum re-branding.........

To be fair I thought that was quite funny. It's always better when a bit of efforts been put in.

agreed-we haven't been entertainers for a long time.

Well, not since last week against Warrington. Oh and the week before against Leeds which was as entertaining as I can remember.

Three pages for this? Seriously?

No....You've just made it 4!

Can this PLEASE be the new Voluntary Tackle Thread?