Quote: Saddened! "You are being very naive over this you know. They may say nice things in the press about Royce, but that's because he's a nice man and so are they. The truth is that there must have been more going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. The fact that Rush and Cunningham made so many changes show they didn't agree with Royce's team selection. The back on the bench policy has itself been benched and the players played far, far better tonight. If they were in any way sympathetic with Royce's plight, they would have been feeling sorry for themselves today, but they weren't.'"
I know for a fact some of the senior players wasn't to disappointed when Royce got the boot and I think they showed that Sunday.
I don't think anyone in world rugby league agreed with the back on the bench that was lucky to get 8 mins at the end apart from saintsfan. It's just total utter madness to play 16 v 17 so that was a obvious change.
I didn't motive myself but I'm told by a saints lad that they changed the defensive pattern as the players felt more at ease with the one they went with on Sunday.
The was slight tweaks by rush and KC and definite change in attitude with the players and I'm pretty sure we'd have lost if Royce was in charge.
Just because we stuffed Leeds don't make it all ok now, we've still got a hell of a lot of work and more improvement if we are to be serious challengers for old Trafford.
Warrington next week is very important game, we need to play well and compete, give them a game and show we are on the mend. Sure enough I wanna go to Warrington and win but I'll be happy enough if we go there and compete and that should put us in for a great good Friday game!
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