Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:35 pm  

Quick question - Would we have been any worse under Andy Last?

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:43 pm  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

Quick question - Would we have been any worse under Andy Last?

That's like saying should Radford still be the coach

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:48 pm  

Keiron Purtill should be in charge for the rest of the season IMO. Did well at Leigh (us) & Widnes until their well documented money problems.

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:50 pm  

mwindass wrote:

That's like saying should Radford still be the coach

Would never say that (should have gone in 2018), but can’t see it being any worse under Last.

I know Hodgson has been tasked with sorting out a long standing mess, but you can’t see any improvements in performance.

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:51 pm  

Hodgson was appointed on a 2 year contract. As far as I'm aware they haven't announced an extension. So no need for a pay off.

Hope AP has learned his lesson with Radford given him to long before he was sacked.

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:55 pm  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

Would never say that (should have gone in 2018), but can’t see it being any worse under Last.

I know Hodgson has been tasked with sorting out a long standing mess, but you can’t see any improvements in performance.

We needed a clean break from the Radford era, for me. Employing Last wouldn't have done that. We still had big scores put on us in 2020 after the COVID break

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:56 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

Hodgson was appointed on a 2 year contract. As far as I'm aware they haven't announced an extension. So no need for a pay off.

Hope AP has learned his lesson with Radford given him to long before he was sacked.

He's on a 3 year deal

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:05 pm  

Sounds like Walker has a broken foot and Mcintosh has an ankle injury. Both probably out of Fridays game

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:06 pm  

mwindass wrote:

He's on a 3 year deal

And 2/3rds of the way through his tenure he's taken us from GF semi finalists to failing to make the 6 twice.

Re: On to Saints : Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:07 pm  

mwindass wrote:

We needed a clean break from the Radford era, for me. Employing Last wouldn't have done that. We still had big scores put on us in 2020 after the COVID break

Fair point. I agree about a clean break being needed. Lasty might have done okay, but was probably too closely linked to Radford.

Still think BH would be better suited as a DOR, putting systems and pathways in place , but leaving the coaching to someone else.

Finances wouldn’t allow for that anyway. It’s not the defeats, it’s the manner of them. Really don’t know what can turn this around.