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comets wrote:newcastle's left wing side is weak on defence, saints will attack that wing all day, i'm pissed that falcons pass so close on the run, chances of ball's getting dropped and more chance of opposition easily being able to read the play, speed to the breakdown has been poor for falcons, i'm sure saints will win this by 21.

Oxbow wrote:Finished 46-31, Saints shipped seven tries. Mallinder can't hold onto his job much longer surely.

JM2K6 wrote:Yikes.

Newcastle are a proper side these days, and I was wrong about Deano losing his mojo. But still... Christ.

Chuckles1188 wrote:They've got some great players up there. Sinoti^2, Goneva, Wilson, Fonua. Good to see them in decent form. A spot in Europe isn't a total pipedream

comets wrote:

Chuckles1188 wrote:They've got some great players up there. Sinoti^2, Goneva, Wilson, Fonua. Good to see them in decent form. A spot in Europe isn't a total pipedream

hard to believe that former england winger, Marcus Watson has to be on the bench for falcons..they should start him on the wing and move sinoti^ or goneva to centre, their attack will increase two folds.

Chuckles1188 wrote:

Oxbow wrote:Finished 46-31, Saints shipped seven tries. Mallinder can't hold onto his job much longer surely.

Think his goose is cooked but they won't want to bin him during the season

JM2K6 wrote:

comets wrote:

Chuckles1188 wrote:They've got some great players up there. Sinoti^2, Goneva, Wilson, Fonua. Good to see them in decent form. A spot in Europe isn't a total pipedream

hard to believe that former england winger, Marcus Watson has to be on the bench for falcons..they should start him on the wing and move sinoti^ or goneva to centre, their attack will increase two folds.

Marcus Watson has never played for England in this sport.

OhNo wrote:Watson is rumoured off and watching today I think he may be injured again.

First 10 minutes I thought oh f**k here we go again, rest of the half happier as the Falcons showed a lot of fight. Second half was ecstasy, I have had a season ticket for over a decade and I have watched a lot of twattings being dished out at KP, first time I've seen the Falcons doing the twatting.

Edit I mean against good solid teams and despite their problems I think saints will end up above the Falcons as usual.

Saint wrote:

Chuckles1188 wrote:

Oxbow wrote:Finished 46-31, Saints shipped seven tries. Mallinder can't hold onto his job much longer surely.

Think his goose is cooked but they won't want to bin him during the season

My reading of the tea-leaves is that Dorian West is on the way out

SaintK wrote:

Saint wrote:

Chuckles1188 wrote:

Oxbow wrote:Finished 46-31, Saints shipped seven tries. Mallinder can't hold onto his job much longer surely.

Think his goose is cooked but they won't want to bin him during the season

My reading of the tea-leaves is that Dorian West is on the way out

Bloody well hope so. Way past his sell by date

Saint wrote:

SaintK wrote:

Saint wrote:

Chuckles1188 wrote:

Oxbow wrote:Finished 46-31, Saints shipped seven tries. Mallinder can't hold onto his job much longer surely.

Think his goose is cooked but they won't want to bin him during the season

My reading of the tea-leaves is that Dorian West is on the way out

Bloody well hope so. Way past his sell by date

Got that wrong didn't I?

Dprian appears to have been demoted from head coach to forwards coach only but is staying alongside the existing coaching team, with Phil Dowson added to the group

Northampton Saints has today confirmed the club’s new coaching structure for the 2017/18 season onwards.
The structure both builds on the stability which established the club as one of the most consistently successful in the Aviva Premiership over the past decade and sees the return of one of the most popular and respected figures in the Saints’ recent past.

Phil Dowson wrote his name into the club’s history by being the first player to lift a major domestic trophy in black, green and gold, the 2010 LV= Cup, just one of his 187 first team appearances in a six-year playing career at Franklin’s Gardens. Dowson – who also helped lift the Aviva Premiership and European Rugby Challenge Cup trophies in 2014 – was one of the senior leaders throughout his time at the club, driving standards on and off the pitch, and this summer he will be back in the East Midlands in a new role of assistant coach.

Dowson completes a coaching quartet also including Alan Dickens, Mark Hopley and Dorian West. Dickens will build on his work leading an attack which has seen the Saints team average three-and-a-half tries per game since the turn of the year, while Hopley steps up from his role as Senior Academy coach to run the first team’s defence. West continues as forwards coach.

Director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that he has full confidence in the coaches’ abilities to bring the best out of the players and get the team back to the top of English rugby

JM2K6 wrote:So no actual head coach?

Oxbow wrote:That is all very

Has Dowson been doing a bit of coaching down at Worcester or is this just a stab in the dark please God hope it works out kind of thing?

SaintK wrote:

Oxbow wrote:That is all very

Has Dowson been doing a bit of coaching down at Worcester or is this just a stab in the dark please God hope it works out kind of thing?

Don't think so, but who knows?
He is also the MD of a company called Nth Degree Imaging. A specialist supplier of wide format printing solutions
Should imagine he spreads himself quite thinly!!!

fisgard792 wrote:Don't get all this 'deckchairs' stuff.

it all comes across as a bit of 'entitlement'.

They are still in the top 2 clubs in the east midlands (sorry) and no where near bottom of EPL.

Saints have had their time, and it will probably come again.