Mon 26 Oct: SL: Salford Red Devils v St Helens KO 5.30pm (Sky)

[Exiled Wiganer]

8 minutes ago, johnh1 said:

I don’t doubt it was a young side. But do we really need to be told a hundred times?

If the St Helens Reporter ever gets its own TV station, they can simply pipe in the Sky commentary. Come to think of it, North Korea TV could do worse than draw from their phrase book of awestruck one eyed praise for their Glorious Leader’s next walk about. 

Enjoyable game. One exhausted team against a v youthful line up (with lots of potential stars by the looks of it) made for a good contest. Sarginson is such a good full back, he always gives everything. If only he had played at Wembley, things could have ended very differently. 

[Davo5]

6 games in 24 days including a Wembley final,outstanding effort from Salford,but we really shouldn’t be asking players to do it even in these unprecedented times.

[Wanderer]

47 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

6 games in 24 days including a Wembley final,outstanding effort from Salford,but we really shouldn’t be asking players to do it even in these unprecedented times.

especially in these unprecedented times!

[Rupert Prince]

13 hours ago, johnh1 said:

I don’t doubt it was a young side. But do we really need to be told a hundred times?

To be fair, all commentators everywhere are like that.   They need a narrative...

[Saint Toppy]

13 hours ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

If the St Helens Reporter ever gets its own TV station, they can simply pipe in the Sky commentary. Come to think of it, North Korea TV could do worse than draw from their phrase book of awestruck one eyed praise for their Glorious Leader’s next walk about. 

 

You mean the lone Saints fan working for Pie Sports. Clarke, Carney & O'Connor might as well just wear their " I  Wigan"  badges front & centre every week !

[Hela Wigmen]

3 minutes ago, Saint Toppy said:

You mean the lone Saints fan working for Pie Sports. Clarke, Carney & O'Connor might as well just wear their " I  Wigan"  badges front & centre every week !

It’s an absolutely bizarre stance from Wiganers to think Sky is some sort of Fingerpost production when you’ve had years of Clarke’s bias. 

[WSRD]

On the rugby side I thought that the younger saints players were excellent and showed what a good system they must have in place.

I thought that the game was played at a very fast pace and both sides made more errors than they should have done.

On the other hand the commentary team on the whole were awful, with each member coming up with stupid comments, what had the fact that Terry O’Connors  son is on the Leeds Rhinos books got to do with a Salford v Saints match, we already knew that the Saints team had some  youngsters in, why keep repeating it lots of times?

When the young Saints player knocked on they were saying quite rightly that he shouldn’t dwell on it but they then kept bringing it up time after time all through the remainder of the match.

Why do they continually do re-runs of incidents such as knock ons , the miss actual play?

Terry O’Connor should realise by now that every player on the field should potentially be a “Go to player” as he usually gets it wrong each match.

And the least said about John Wells the better.

 

 

[Wanderer]

6 hours ago, Wanderer said:

especially in these unprecedented times!

to expand upon this, given these unprecedented times my view is that the players should be playing fewer games not more

[DG70]

Salford have been a breath of fresh air to the league in all honesty last year or so, whats probably more frustrating for the club has a whole at the moment though is no fans being allowed in, they would be bringing in 5000+ easily just now.

[Exiled Wiganer]

8 hours ago, Saint Toppy said:

You mean the lone Saints fan working for Pie Sports. Clarke, Carney & O'Connor might as well just wear their " I  Wigan"  badges front & centre every week !

 

8 hours ago, Hela Wigmen said:

It’s an absolutely bizarre stance from Wiganers to think Sky is some sort of Fingerpost production when you’ve had years of Clarke’s bias. 

That went well. 

[Hela Wigmen]

5 minutes ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

 

That went well. 

As well as Walmsley’s case at Red Hall a few weeks ago