A balanced view. For the saints fans who are blaming a poor squad and problem players- brown had arguably the best squad in paper at st George and won nothing- he was particularly unlucky with injuries over two of those seasons. Those players were seasoned professionals and in the top echelons of the game worldwide - he lost the dressing room to the point of assaulting a player.
At hudds we all thought hed learn by his mistakes. When he came he showed he had a great eye for players- was able to spot untapped talent and make them into better players- think that's why he's signed turner.
He brought some ideas from aus which worked really well- he brought on those players but wasn't able to motivate them positively for the important games.
At the start of this season we had a forward crisis- players had to be utilised out of position, players were fresh and eager and the opposition weren't familiar with our new playing system and it went well.
Teams got wise realised we had a low weight pack and dealt with it. NB had no real plan b, started tinkering.
At widnes we had a centre injured and our captain LF missing- 2 players were drafted into the squad who could/should have been straight replacements. Instead he put our international centre to LF - a position he has NEVER played, moved winger to centre, fb to wing, new player at FB, and switched between 2 player whod played prop and second row for the start of the season in the other centre.
This tinkering continued- it was like musical chairs. We went from having the best defence in the league to shipping close to 40 a game because the defensive structure was a mess- players weren't sure what they were meant to be doing from from week to the next.
NB has had us playing some of our best rugby for a long time, I hope he's learnt from this mistake.
