As did Saints start to the game against Leeds Last week. On both fronts Stevo blamed lack of opposition's defence as opposed to Saint's cutting edge offence. I think we are seeing the start of a comprehensive game plan under Mike and Kieron,

Rush is clearly not a genius and by his own admission has not done anything startlingly radical in the last 2 weeks. However, I posit that he is probably extremely good at man-management.

Our squad has bags of ability in some places a lot of experience. I reckon Rush and KC stood in front of them (esp the senior players) and told it like it is - they weren't earning their money and had effectively got 2 good men sacked because of their poor performance. What are you going to do about it?

I also reckon they train them pretty hard! I can imagine KC being a pretty uncompromising taskmaster.

Got to agree with Saints Fan about the bradford game - I thought it was much improved quite a bit over the Hull game where we were really awful.
Even against the Cats, we were pretty good for the first 60 mins and should have killed the game at the end. I didn't go to the Hudds game but from what I read and was told, we were very unlucky not to win that one and it was only brough's unbelievable good fortune that won it for them.

We had the ability to grunt out wins in those games that we lost, but grunting out wins was not very effective.

I went to the Huddersfield game and although it was close and so we could have won it, we offered very little attacking threat from any part of the field, we got lucky with the Lomax try had it been on TV it may not have been given.

But we went from [uawful [/uin the hull game to [uquite average[/u in the Bradford game - not really the improvement that should be praised IMO.

At Huddersfield we may have been unlucky, but IMO they were just as bad as us in that game so it's hardly (again) something to point out etc.

Big difference since Royce left? Summed up by Rushy:

"it's hard to be critical when you are asking them to push the ball and take chances"

Playing in the Saints way again, and about time.

I think rush is playing his part in the way we are playing since he and KC took over. I'm good friends with some saints lads and asked them what had changed.

Rush had changed the defensive pattern and gone with one that the players feel much more comfortable.

Also, he's give them a more free role and introduced more options for the halfbacks in the form of runners.

Notice how we not standing quite do deep either ,