St pete wrote:
I don't blame Brown one little bit. We pointed the finger at potter, Simmons and rush but now its Browns turn! The blame at some point has to fall at the players feet as well as McManus.
Brown has come to this club having to deal with McManus and past coaches poor recruitment and retention. He's got over the hill rubbish props in Laffranchi and perry, he's got a poor second row trying to play scrum half in Jon wilkin and anyone the cap fits to play stand off.
You could put the best coach in the world in charge of this team and he would fail. Its a very very poor team and a very very poor squad.
He's had it tough with Roby, Lomax, Manu, TP, Ade, Wheeler and Perry missing most the season. I think we would have won our last two games with those players on the pitch.
So IMO the blame falls at the feet of McManus for allowing ex coaches recruit rubbish and retain players on longer deals like wilkin getting 5 year deal, lance hohaia being signed as a halfback on a 4 year deal etc
Bang on IMO
The only thing that you can hold against brown is Gaskell, but if they don't rate him currently...well that's what he's paid to judge.
Howarth in at 6 was bizarre, but he's having to try anything to get us through. We need a half. I said last week that if we are going to stick with Wilkin (which I think is pretty much a guarantee) then the club are writing off this season and it's clear that they lack ambition.
I'm glad McManus dragged us out the poop when he came on board, and I'm over the moon that he delivered a stadium, but if he isn't going to invest in the team then what's the point of him keeping saints? We could have had Koukash!
