Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:56 pm  

I can't understand why hes rotating early, he says Hudds and Wire did it last season.... yeah a fat load of good that did to them. He should be coming up with his own ideas rather than using failed methods from coaches the previous season who won nout! But I do like Royce and i think he will turn it round, but for me it's the team on the pitch the fault has to lie with. Foster being the major factor tonight he was poor, and I agree with the LMS attempted tackle which was a crap attempt. Plus we all know what referees do, it worried me getting so many penalties in the 1st half, 9 times out of 10 it gets evened up, which it did, and unfortunatly for us it didn't work out. Defence pathetic. Did he bother with defence this week?

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:02 am  

I said it last year he wasn't up to the job so it's no knee jerk reaction from me before all the Saints fans that see thru red v glasses chip in.

My concerns are as follows :

Tactics - the guy has none, I wonder what we've done in pre season as he's not brought in anything new and gets out thought by smart coaches.

Substitutions - I just can't work out this back on the bench that plays ten mins if he lucky. He takes players off with no thought. Today he brought laffranchci back on only 2 mins after halftime! The players just had 15 mins rest so why take someone off after 2 mins? It's waste of sub.

Rotation - IMO it's unreal! He moaned last year he can't play the sane team weeks on the bounce and now he's resting wingers! WTF was resting makinson last week all about? He's 20, fit as a fiddle and one of our best players!

Recruitment - we lose jammer who IMO is the best prop in the world and he replaces him with a 31 year old backrow who's a stranger to the prop postion. He had to replace him with the best prop he could get his hands on, not a old mate of his that ain't played prop. We lose eastmond and replace him with a world cup winning kiwi international FULLBACK who's hardly played halfback for past 10 years!

Defence - worst I've seen for long long time . Simple!

Attack - same old crap move which is totally predictable. If the players don't pull off the cuff rugby we don't score.

Motivation - for me this is the big one, he can't get us up for games, the players don't react to him and for me that's the bullet.

I like Royce as a guy and I know for fact he gives his all and puts every ounce off effort in to the job but he's not good enough. Let's get this idiot out before he ruins the club for years to come.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:17 am  

You guys are Spoilt

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:21 am  

Snoopy wrote:

You guys are Spoilt

The reaction from some of our fans at times is embarrasing.

Yes there certainly are things wrong with the level of performance that do need to be sorted from the last two games but the overeaction at times to a defeat is unreal.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:24 am  

Murphys Magic wrote:

The reaction from some of our fans at times is embarrasing.

Yes there certainly are things wrong with the level of performance that do need to be sorted from the last two games but the overeaction at times to a defeat is unreal.

We are all over the place mate, the defence is shocking, the attack is off the cuff rugby.

We look like a poor coached team and I'm wiling to put my neck on the line to say hudds will put 30+ on us and Wigan and Warrington will score 50+

It's totally awful and this guys recruitment is shocking.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:28 am  

St pete wrote:

We are all over the place mate, the defence is shocking, the attack is off the cuff rugby.

We look like a poor coached team and I'm wiling to put my neck on the line to say hudds will put 30+ on us and Wigan and Warrington will score 50+

It's totally awful and this guys recruitment is shocking.

I'm not disagreeing with you that there are problems but calling for for some people to be calling for the sack after two games is a bit OTT.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:31 am  

Murphys Magic wrote:

The reaction from some of our fans at times is embarrasing.

Yes there certainly are things wrong with the level of performance that do need to be sorted from the last two games but the overeaction at times to a defeat is unreal.

The fact that we have been poor in every game this season inc Widnes in friendly. Holding healthy leads, losing them, p1ss poor tactics with the same shower of s h 1 t getting the games. Drop Foster, hes pants. Wello is past it lets be honest. Our signings are hardly exciting. I know teams need to gel but lets get real, after this seasons showing so far we look like we are going to have another trophyless season. I am going to Hudds and hope for a massive defensive improvement..I just can't see it! I hope I am wrong though.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:33 am  

Murphys Magic wrote:

I'm not disagreeing with you that there are problems but calling for for some people to be calling for the sack after two games is a bit OTT.

I said it all last year but his dire coaching got brushed under the carpet from a grand final appearance but I remember the shocking performances we'd put in before that like kicking goals in last mind to win against poor poor teams

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:46 am  

I wouldn't renew his contract. He's tactically naive and we've not got enough attacking moves and look very predictable in attack and our defense is a mess. But I wouldn't sack him, I don't see the point. Royce had a poisoned chalice when he took over, just as Potter did. The stadium development has taken so much of the club's time, effort and though that the playing side has been neglected for the best part of 10 years. Senior, legendary players leaving and not being replaced and an annual net export of players.

Our recruitment has been horrific for years and questions need to be asked about who is making the decisions on this score? Is it all being done by Eamon? Or is Kel Koslett involved, or Mike Rush, or Keiron Purtill, or the incumbent coach? We need to get back to buying the best young English players, why didn't we bid for Ratchford, Hill, Hardaker etc? Those are the kind of players we would have signed previously and we wouldn't have wasted our overseas spots like we are doing now. Laffranchi, Hohaia, Meli (If he still is on any quota), Flannery, Perry? Would any of them be missed if they went home tomorrow? I doubt it.

Re: Is Simmons the right man? : Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:15 am  

Royce needs to add another move to his other one you know the drop off? Were so predictable were becoming boring?

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