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| doing a good job - if at the start of the season you had offered me the current position: top of the league, in the cup semi (after destroying Leeds), only 4 defeats and brought in 5 or 6 young lads; I would have been delighted.
Admittedly, we havent played well every week - and some of the performances have been as bad as I can remember, but on the whole its going well.
We have to remember that we are a club in transition on and off the field, and Potter probably has had the hardest coaching task at Saints since Eric Hughes. He has 3 years to completely rebuild the team, and the signs so far are good.
If Roguey is right (which I doubt), and some fo the senior players are not happy - i'm not too bothered, the young lads are the ones that need to be kept happy not the likes of Sean Long.
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Didn't the same thing happen years ago with Briers and Goulding, which ultimately led to Briers going to Wire?'"
at the time though, it was a no brainer decision. Goulding was the best scrum half in the game having almost single handedly won us the league in '96 - there was no way that we would release him to keep Briers.
Nobody knew that a few weeks after Briers leaving that Goulding would go into meltdown and end up getting sacked. Still we ended up with Long, so we didnt exactly lose out.
The Long / Eastmond situation is completely different to the Goulding / Briers.
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| Quote: FearTheVee "Long got selected in front of Smith because he was, and still is, several classes above him. It was a no brainer.
Kyle has his chance now, let's see what he does with it.'"
Fair point but when we was on such unbeaten run it was obvious at that time smith was doing pretty good.
What's to say smith wouldn't be our 7 today if he hadn't been dropped for longy.
IMO smith took his chance and was still dropped.
That sends out a message to kids that if you take your chance you will play.
If eastmond plays well then he should stay there.
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| Quote: Tony Stark "In a strange way I won't be upset if we don't win anything this season, if it means people lower their expectation level a bit, ease off with the uber-confidence some seem to have that is often seen as arrogance by others, and realise that we can't reign supreme all of the time but that by supporting our team week in week out in numbers, showing dedication and determination and a will to win we can enforce those same principles on the players.'"
That's all well and good, but can we please play some decent rugby in the process? It's been really difficult to watch Saints sometimes this season and while I appreciate - and am really glad - that our young guys are being actively integrated into the team, fundamentally we have the same set of players we did last season and yet with the exception of the two Leeds matches and away at Wakey, we really haven't played much like the team of last year. I'm not talking about ultra high standards or anything; just enjoyable to watch rugby league. I don't quite understand why we have to play poorly (and sometimes terribly) while we are integrating young players?
As for my own thoughts on Potter ... the jury is still very much out for me.
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| I think Mick Potter is doing a decent job considering this is his first season and the team is in partial transition, still top of the league and in the challenge cup.
Most of the games have been boring this season but you can't cast blame on Mick Potters style of coaching. The game has slowed down in the ruck areas and we probably have had some of the worst referee performance ever this year in superleague.
If Mick Potters gets Eastmond, Moore, Wheeler, Lomax, Foster etc up another level then I think the future is bright.........A Potters Dynasty.
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| Im not gonna compain tbh, he`s doing alright, yes the style has changed a bit, but I think first in the league and still in the cup will do for me
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