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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: J Scott
Date: January 1, 2023, 10:52 am
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As Austin said, get on the bus crack a beer watch a film take
tomorrow off then go again.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: FatQuin
Date: January 1, 2023, 10:55 am
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Half of that team can’t catch so doubt they’d make it home.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: A222Quin
Date: January 1, 2023, 10:56 am
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Not much good at all about today and you kind of feel it has
been coming. The massive break during the AIs didn’t do us any
favours and the injuries and now a suspension have stacked up
since then. Too many fringe players look way off the pace.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: January 1, 2023, 10:57 am
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--- Quote from: MaidstoneQuin link ---
>
> Matson is the new EJ.
>
> Even the most twinkled eyed fans will admit we are awful
>
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You desperately want us to be the worst team in the league,
don't you?
Top four, still in the hunt in Europe. Got thumped by a team
playing at home having had two weeks off, with our best players
either broken, banned, or knackered from playing with a short
turnaround, and a heap of 2nd/3rd/4th choice players vs a nearly
full strength side.
Eddie Jones was awful because he made good players bad, made
awful selection decisions, made players hate playing for
England, and made fans hate watching them. He wasn't dealing
with a huge injury list, there was never a clear plan on the
pitch or off it, and on top of it all he made the entire setup
as unlikable as he is.
Very little of that applies to Quins. I don't know why you are
working so hard to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. It's a
cliche but it genuinely does seem to be the case that you'd be
far happier supporting a team that can somehow afford to stack
the entire squad with seasoned internationals and a sprinkling
of the best youngsters from other sides - I'm sure you can find
one.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: January 1, 2023, 10:59 am
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--- Quote from: JammyGit link ---
>
> You desperately want us to be the worst team in the league,
don't you?
>
> Top four, still in the hunt in Europe. Got thumped by a team
playing at home having had two weeks off, with our best players
either broken, banned, or knackered from playing with a short
turnaround, and a heap of 2nd/3rd/4th choice players vs a nearly
full strength side.
>
> Eddie Jones was awful because he made good players bad, made
awful selection decisions, made players hate playing for
England, and made fans hate watching them. He wasn't dealing
with a huge injury list, there was never a clear plan on the
pitch or off it, and on top of it all he made the entire setup
as unlikable as he is.
>
> Very little of that applies to Quins. I don't know why you are
working so hard to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. It's a
cliche but it genuinely does seem to be the case that you'd be
far happier supporting a team that can somehow afford to stack
the entire squad with seasoned internationals and a sprinkling
of the best youngsters from other sides - I'm sure you can find
one.
>
--- End Quote ---
Positives from today?
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: Banstead Quin
Date: January 1, 2023, 11:04 am
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Well that truly was toilet, out physicalled at every collision
and really no clue if Andre doesn't break the line. All the
excuses already given above but the gamble of resting starters
didn't pay off.
Saints showing what can be achieved if you try and what the
he'll has happened in the line-out? Can't keep this going with 3
big games coming up.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: January 1, 2023, 11:09 am
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--- Quote from: MaidstoneQuin link ---
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> Positives from today?
>
--- End Quote ---
Dombrandt was superb. David largely made a good fist of things
again. Baxter came through well in the scrum over time and put
in a huge shift in attack and defence.
That's about it.
The difference between you and me is that every week you are
positively giddy with excitement at the prospect that Quins
might lose so you can start putting the boot in. Today we were
rubbish - but there's a lot of reasons why we were rubbish and
it's absurd to start making grand claims about us being trash
without acknowledging the disadvantages we had on the day.
We have not been anywhere close to being this bad this season,
and in fact on many occasions we've been excellent, so let's not
pretend this is our standard. Four days between matches for an
already heavily weakened team playing against a fit and fresh
near full strength side? Any reasonable person would accept that
it was always going to be hard.
Unreasonable people think it's an excuse to put the boot into
the management and claim everything is dreadful and we're doomed
to being relegated or something, because they like to think
they've made a name for themselves as a Cassandra rather than
just a tedious troll who's right once every six weeks or so
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: KentQuin
Date: January 1, 2023, 11:12 am
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Horror show today, but that's what happens when you lose the
gain line battle. Saints battered us in that department and
that's a real worry with Sale next weekend.
Only Andre, Dommers and Wilco when he came on gave us any go
forward. The pack needs to step up.
It might be a case of needs must given the injury list, but I'd
like to see a few changes for the Sale game. That's two stinkers
on the bounce from Hammond and White has been anonymous. Surely
the likes of Jurevicius and Taulani deserve a crack.
Only positives from today were the performances of Dommers and
Nick David.
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: January 1, 2023, 11:29 am
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--- Quote from: JammyGit link ---
>
> Dombrandt was superb. David largely made a good fist of things
again. Baxter came through well in the scrum over time and put
in a huge shift in attack and defence.
>
> That's about it.
>
> The difference between you and me is that every week you are
positively giddy with excitement at the prospect that Quins
might lose so you can start putting the boot in. Today we were
rubbish - but there's a lot of reasons why we were rubbish and
it's absurd to start making grand claims about us being trash
without acknowledging the disadvantages we had on the day.
>
> We have not been anywhere close to being this bad this season,
and in fact on many occasions we've been excellent, so let's not
pretend this is our standard. Four days between matches for an
already heavily weakened team playing against a fit and fresh
near full strength side? Any reasonable person would accept that
it was always going to be hard.
>
> Unreasonable people think it's an excuse to put the boot into
the management and claim everything is dreadful and we're doomed
to being relegated or something, because they like to think
they've made a name for themselves as a Cassandra rather than
just a tedious troll who's right once every six weeks or so
>
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At least you accept I get it right.
If you read back games we’ve won, I do praise the team.
Watching today, and combining it with the results lately,
suggests we aren’t very good. All the best
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Re: Saints Game
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: January 1, 2023, 11:49 am
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--- Quote from: MaidstoneQuin link ---
>
> At least you accept I get it right.
>
> If you read back games we’ve won, I do praise the team.
Watching today, and combining it with the results lately,
suggests we aren’t very good. All the best
>
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Haha, don't kid yourself - how often have you been mocked on
here for proclaiming we're terrible and definitely going to lose
early on in matches only to have to backtrack when we've won
again? A magic 8 ball has a better track record.
You're so keen on being The Oracle there's never any room for
reality to intrude on your world. Sport is messy, thankfully.
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