Flanno's New Signings

[Old Timer]

I think there is a Sack Flanno thread. But this isn't it.

You’re delusional I never said or even eluded to sacking S F.

Now how about you just answer the questions I posed to you seeing as you thought my post was laughable.

 

[Slippery Morris]

I think Saints wins were very impressive this year but their losses were scary as hell and showed that as good as they looked winning, they looked atrocious losing. It showed Saints have something and that is on their day they can beat the good sides like Melbourne in Melbourne. Flanno really just needs to work extra hard on defence in the offseason and make Saints an extremely hard team to break down not one that once they concede a try buckles. I would not look at the big name players to bring in but ones that can defend and have a tackle efficiency % that is higher that what the players Saints have now. Saints had guys like Cam McInness, Vaughn and Tariq Sims who I would love to have kept instead of McCullough, Maguire, Woods, Burgess etc. Griffin really did screw up Saints. Cam McInness and Tariq are true leaders and you just don't get rid of guys like that. They are the ones you should keep not replace.

 

[Illusion]

Agree they played well and did what others couldn't , but then couldn't beat teams below us on our home ground so that for me nullified the good wins , that was a disappointing and I for one knew it was coming ....... But overall we did see improvement in some areas let's now hope , and I think it will improve next year ........ So no I'm not underplaying those wins , just disappointed they couldn't go on with it ..........

I hate it when people underplay what the team achieved in both those games. They were both very good wins. Yes Penrith had 5 out, but we had 3 out, we were playing at their home ground, and Panthers were favoured to win by a big margin. They still had a formidable forward pack, but we muscled up and held them. Marschke and Flanno totally outplayed their halves, both kicked well, and we got a good win 4 tries to 2. The Melbourne game was a cracker, edge of the seat, another game we were totally expected to lose. Everyone played out of their skin. We totally deserved to be on the cusp of the 8, despite the nay sayers.

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[since77]

I hate it when people underplay what the team achieved in both those games. They were both very good wins. Yes Penrith had 5 out, but we had 3 out, we were playing at their home ground, and Panthers were favoured to win by a big margin. They still had a formidable forward pack, but we muscled up and held them. Marschke and Flanno totally outplayed their halves, both kicked well, and we got a good win 4 tries to 2. The Melbourne game was a cracker, edge of the seat, another game we were totally expected to lose. Everyone played out of their skin. We totally deserved to be on the cusp of the 8, despite the nay sayers.

Well said. I went to the Penrith game and had to wait outside the ground for a good half hour waiting for my son to arrive. I watched both sets of fans walking into the ground. I can tell you that there were zero nervous Penrith fans walking into the ground that day. They were all 100% confident their team was going to easily deal with the Dragons. Very smug, like they were turning up to watch a formality. Dragons fans - they were already used to the ups and downs of the '24 season and looked like they had no idea what Dragons team was going to show up.
Standing on the hill we were with some of my son's friends who were Penrith supporters. None of them were vaguely worried until there was about 5 minutes to go. They totally expected to win.
We played well and won. For every win we had this year there are the usual clowns on the forum who will tell you that we only won because the other team played badly or throw up some other pathetic excuse. It really makes me wonder how well some people know their footy.

 

[Slippery Morris]

And they won against Penrith without Ben Hunt.

 

[SBD82]

And they won against Penrith without Ben Hunt.

That was a massive advantage. But I still think the Dragons deserve credit.

 

[Jubilee]

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[Saints Forever]

The reason we were there abouts was because we managed somehow to beat Penrith on their turf ( yes I know they were under strength ) Think we had a couple out also , then we beat the Storm at their ground also and they were close to full strength ....... So 4 points that we picked up that we weren't backing on , take them away and we would have been further down the ladder ........ 4 points that most of the teams fighting for the 8 would not have picked up .........

True but we also lost games that defied logic

 

[Gomarchin]

Beating the Storm (at full strength) in Melbourne for the first time in 25 years was a great achievement. I'm hoping that we see more of that next year than the horror blowout losses we saw this year.

 

[rasaint]

Lots of good posts. At the end of the day we need a better roster if we are going to be in the mix of chances for finals and win more next season. Val Homes is a good buy. Stating the obvious we need fast wingers, a quality big prop and some ‘up and comers’ from lower grades who really step up. Love to have Cody Ramsey at fullback but unfortunately that ship has sailed.

Not overly fussed about coaches. Great players make great coaches.

Cleary had a sub 50% record before going back to the Panthers ( was sacked then went to Tigs for poor record) thereafter a ‘world beater again‘. Kev Walters went to grand final with Broncos 2023 ( 10 secs off victory) but 2024 lost the game’s best centre and top second rower to Dolphins and class 5/8 injured early and champ half on one leg, the rest is history. Madge is new ‘great best coach’.( great reference from the games chosen one) He won a premiership with powerful South’s team full of young Burgess boys and Greg Inglis and tanked with Tigers ( poor roster).

 

[mattw5]

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