Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:43 pm  

This is brilliant IMO. If he can pick up his career the way it was going when he was attack coach at Salford, we could be in for some very exciting rugby next year.

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:16 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

Rock and roll returns to Saints

Yup. Get the fairy lights up on the cladding and we're back!

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:31 pm  

Long overdue (excuse the pun)

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:41 am  

This will either be boom or bust!

I can't see Saints tolerating his behaviour in the same way we did when he was a player, so hopefully he has grown up a bit.

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:09 am  

Do people think all this has been in the pipeline for a while? Has brown been used to fill a gap until KC\Longy ready? Seems strange how Brown has left without a job and it's known he's applied for some in Aus. It all seems to have fitted into place quite nicely.

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:15 am  

magnum_pi wrote:

Do people think all this has been in the pipeline for a while? Has brown been used to fill a gap until KC\Longy ready? Seems strange how Brown has left without a job and it's known he's applied for some in Aus. It all seems to have fitted into place quite nicely.

KC was being lined up to replace Brown at the end of next year. That was always the plan. Browns in laws have health issues and that's the reason he's gone early.

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 10:36 am  

magnum_pi wrote:

Do people think all this has been in the pipeline for a while? Has brown been used to fill a gap until KC\Longy ready? Seems strange how Brown has left without a job and it's known he's applied for some in Aus. It all seems to have fitted into place quite nicely.

Don,t think so, Browny's job was to re build the team and stay competitive for silverware, KC as Pete says was still learning his apprenticeship. Daniel Anderson told McManus that Longy would make a great coach one day.
I think its just been accelerated 1 season, to be honest I thought it could have been the other way around Longy ending up as coach with KC as asssistant.
We don,t really know how its going to work out, will it be "2 heads better than one" or "Too Many Cooks"

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:50 am  

Did Wigun sack Longy or did he walk away?

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:03 pm  

Rommel wrote:

Did Wigun sack Longy or did he walk away?

Bit of both I think. I seem to recall getting the impression they were "professionally incompatible".

Re: Sean Long returns to Saints : Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:40 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Bit of both I think. I seem to recall getting the impression they were "professionally incompatible".

Longy won't coach "Thugby".