Re: Potter : Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:20 am  

POTTER RIP. and good riddance

Re: Potter : Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:38 am  

This season I have seen some of the most boring rugby I can recall in all the years I have watched Saints.Take your style of play over the Pennines to Bradford Potter-I am sure they will appreciate you.I desparately hope Simmons does not follow the same mantra,He also needs to teach them how to tackle and goal line defence

Re: Potter : Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:11 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

That's strange.
I could have swore Joel & Sam Tomkins played last night along with Goulding, McIlorum, Prescott, Hansen and Farrell.
And there's more to come.

Which of ALL those young players that Wigan let go do you think would get into the Wigan team?

On Potter,
I was talking to a current Saints players dad pre-match and he believes that Potter has concentrated too much on size and strength, saying that they do not do a lot of running or speed training.

you forgot Lockers

Re: Potter : Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:48 pm  

Era of the Biff wrote:

He's done the job he was appointed to do.

Yes. I said so. He has integrated the young players. That was his job and that's all he has done.

Re: Potter : Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:50 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I was talking to a current Saints players dad pre-match and he believes that Potter has concentrated too much on size and strength, saying that they do not do a lot of running or speed training.

You don't need to talk to anyone to realise that. It's bloody obvious.

Re: Potter : Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:12 am  

It hasn't been the greatest two years but I think some fans don't see the bigger picture.

We have been concentrating hard on getting a new ground for obvious reason's so maybe recruitment hasn't been what we wanted. We lost a good few 'Legends' and very good players over the past couple of years - the end of an era you might say.

Potter came in at a very difficult time; he inherited an aging squad with gaps in the ranks and not the best recruitment funds or policy. He has got us to two GF's the second of which by everything just we shouldn’t have got to with the injuries we've had this year.

So all-in-all, although I wouldn't have extended his contract he hasn't done a bad job in difficult times.

Re: Potter : Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:18 pm  

Potter has done well in bringing the younger ones through but frankly he's had no other options. With the amoung of injuries weve suffered he has had to play youngsters. It appears to me as well that he has picked older players when possible. When player who comes to mind was when Tom Armstrong was introduced. He showed great potential and made a good impression of himself when given his opportunity, however as soon as Meli returned from injury he was dropped and has been seldom seen since. Despite Meli's reccuring bad form (apart from his odd good game) he has not been given another opportunity.

Re: Potter : Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:07 pm  

Oh come on people lets be honest! Hehas totally changed the team into a snoring one out play and kick. We have lost our flair and our panache. Yes there have been times when we have reverted to type but most of our play has been in the image of our coach boring lifeless and flat. The youngsters are local talent and have come through the ranks playing traditional St Helens style, I know, ive watched most of them.

Potters exit is timely and much needed. Lets move on and hope the next coach has the pazazz of Millward, the savvy of Anderson, the playing experience of Coslett and the vocal dexterity of McRae.

Re: Potter : Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:19 pm  

I have to say in Potters favour he brought in some very good kids but his style of play was awful and I personally hated it.

Re: Potter : Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:06 pm  

A very difficult job that Potter inherited with the likes of Longy leaving and the stadium draining the finances, especially coupled with the injury list.
Mick brought some great kids through, some may argue not totally by choice given the injury situation but he's got to take some credit for the meteoric development of Foster, Lomax, Emmitt etc.

Potter's style of play wasn't the greatest and judging by the Simmons interview entertaining rugby was a major requirement for Eammon. Hopefully a fresh approach will bring a new hunger to the team that seemed sadly lacking on occassions last year.

Tactically Potter IMO was inept and some of his selections baffling, with the iceing on the cake Lomax at left centre for the first time in our biggest game of the year.