Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:35 pm  

A good coach is someone who gets the best out of his players and gets them playing as a team, Brown does neither.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:37 pm  

The Eclipse wrote:

A good coach is someone who gets the best out of his players and gets them playing as a team, Brown does neither.

Agreed. And he sends our one remaining halfback off to Salford after three games so that we can enjoy Salford's third choice hooker.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:37 pm  

I was bob on about Ashe. What an average player.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:39 pm  

Gerry Mander wrote:

Shockingly bad Saints side but this has been coming for 3/4 years.

However all of a sudden opinion seems to have turned against Brown after tonight.

The senior players didn't like Potter , the senior players saw for Royce in the end , the senior players ....(pattern emerging).

The only coach in 5 years brave enough to move wellens. He is giving the kids a chance (unlike rush & Cunningham).
Injuries have been difficult , but the bigger problem is that most of the senior pros at Saints have had it too good for too long and need moving on. Given the circumstances I think he could still lead Saints out
of this dark period.

The young guns are showing excellent commitment and potential but making some mistakes.

The senior pros are having a laugh.



Sacking Brown at this stage would just paper over the cracks again.
Brown needs to be judged but not at this stage.

People have sympathy with him because of injuries and poor recruitment choice over a couple of years but his team selection tonight was baffling to say the least.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:42 pm  

That was really, really bad, the absentees do not excuse the gaping holes in defence, falling off tackles and having no shape at all. I'm eating my words on Brown more every week and I don't like it.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:45 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

That was really, really bad, the absentees do not excuse the gaping holes in defence, falling off tackles and having no shape at all. I'm eating my words on Brown more every week and I don't like it.

The falling off tackles is nothing new, we have been horrible all season. We seem to have forgotten the basics of defence at times, we wait for players rather than moving in and then we play grab the shirt and let them roll forward another 10 meters. Its crap stuff and wouldnt be acceptable in an amateur team never mind SL.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:46 pm  

Shocking attitude by the players, we can blame the coach as much as we want but at the end of the day that performance was the most inept show of professionalism shown by any players in a saints shirt.
Cant pass, can,t tackle, cant support a player.........we have no urgency or energy in the side whatsover.
One of the worse things was our snail pace walk to shape up for the scrum as though they couldn,t be bothered, another incident was Walmsley made a braak and did a great offload to Lance who couldn,t be bothered to watch the ball because he was half a sleep.
If the players can,t be bothered to show any desire then shortly I can,t be bothered to watch and support them.......this is not a saints side.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:49 pm  

Ashe was awful, could not believe how poor his passing was. It just looked like he didnt want the ball and was merely chucking it away.

Think the writing is on the wall for Lance considering Brown preferred Howarth to him.

I get the impression that the Saints players and club have written this season off and are merely using it to blood a few kids and wind down the playing days of the old guard.

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:53 pm  

I missed the game tonight, glad I did too. Any standout players for us?

Re: Match Reaction : Fri May 03, 2013 9:54 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

I missed the game tonight, glad I did too. Any standout players for us?

Thompson and Walmsley