You all have dodgy moustaches ?

Remember the wheels begining to fall off the season that year around the time we lost badly to Hudds away?

Although we eventually finished fourth in the league table, if it hadn't been for the Johns factor, I feel we could easily have fallen into mid table obscurity completely that season and the big mid-season run counting for nothing.

HOPEFULLY....... being the key word...

It's interesting when you hear what the players have to say.

It seems that Tony Smith has done a lot of 'little' changes to most of our players games.

No drastic overhauls.



I'd love to know more about this.

Thought the Justin Morgan insights the previous week were very good and would like to see more of them.

Slightly before that, the good run ended when we lost at Wigan (supposed to be the start of Ian Millward turning the club around

), we lost to Leeds, Saints and Hudds soon after that, like you say the wheels were coming off.



At the time we lost to Hudds there was a theory going round that the wheels had come off because the players were rebelling against us getting Johns in because they had found out how much he was being paid etc. I doubt that made a difference, I reckon the truth was on our winning run we were an OK team in great form rather than a great team.

I think that's a fair point. The way we played at that time was an expansive all out style,and it either worked or it didn't. We didn;t generally win games ugly, like we are now.



Playing such a high risk game was always going to mean we made mistakes, and we simply weren;t a good enough team to cover for these mistakes, whereas now we seem to be able to recover from them.



On our day at that time, we could be as good as anyone, but no team can maintain that style week in week out.



Plenty of people think that Saints are a high flair team, but to be fair, they play plenty of games like we did last night. I've been to a couple as a neutral where I have been bored to tears, and plenty of my Saints friends say the same.

Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't remember the sequence, but remember being at the Galpharm wondering what had gone drastically wrong in such a short space of time.

It was sort of feast or famine with the manner the team were playing.

having been to watch us at cas, i felt that a big stand out for me was that we had composure and castleford didn't throughout the game. we weren't ugly just very professional without having to get out of second gear for the whole of the match. we spent much of the opening quarter in first gear.



we played like this quite a lot in the mid 80s!!



here's hoping



York 79

Big forwards, quick playtheballs, running out of dummy half, clinical close to the opposition line. Has worked for Saints for ten years and for us for ten games

I thought you weren't going again?

I think TS has changed what matters most in our team and that is Attitude

Its a happy time to be a Wire and thats good enough for me.