You have to start by saying a big thank you to Richard Marshall.
The Club has some solid foundations and has uncovered some great young talent and nurtured them into fine players with bags of potential.
Well done Richard

On the negative side, his inability to solve the halves has perhaps been his his undoing. These spots should have been handed to. Ben White and JWH from the start of the season, at least.. we persisted with Muzza, being the pivot for the side for too long, his legs are gone, and while his influence and leadership are unquestionable, his ability to break a line or finish are limited to a point where the side hit its ceiling years ago.

Also, while the squad is fairly strong, the pack seems to have got weaker for the past few years, you need grunt and horse power at our level, size matters. I can reel off a list of big uns weve lost.

I sensed talking to him at the back end of last season, his enthusiasm was decreasing, it was almost ‘one more year and i am off,’ i think even he knew he couldn’t get to the next level with us and his style.

Sadly it maybe is for the best, and someone more ruthless can salvage something, or regalvanise us. His loyalty and faith in Muzza and Johnno was his Achilles heal, we had the same short falls every year. I wish he had been braver.

It’s certainly not a good day for Fax, or Richard, and we are definitely not better off, its a sad day, but there is now opportunity for someone to get us going, with some decent players at their disposal.

This situation all started under RM's reign. We were going backwards under him, be it his fault or not.

Totally agree Jensen, he looked comfy sat with Justin Holbrook on FRiday night, must be like losing a quid and finding 100,000 quid. Lol.

Are you Richard Marshall??

No just pointing out the obvious. Marshall has done very well out of the adversity. He looks happy and content. Fax look to be missing him. The club is drifting to destination unknown with no game plan imo

RM was always going to get another job in the game and by having one at Saints he has landed on his feet, good luck to him. My thinking is that it was time to part, for both sides, and an assistant position is what he is suited to. I wouldn't have replaced him with SG but we have, so we all need to pull together and as Donald would say, Make Fax great again. Up The Fax!