Whilst agreeing that the players must have within them motivation & a certain level of aggression, some responsibility for creating a culture of motivation & aggression within the playing staff must fall onto the coach.

Additionally, our tactics under Brown are all over the place.

We use players like Sia & Manu driving it in up the middle as cannon fodder, when we should be seeing them hitting the fringes. If opposition teams then load up defences wider to combat this, it weakens the centre of the pitch.

Our line speed at Saints has never been great (even under IM & DA), but we're now being shown up with it and it's costing us the momentum in games.

We have a very good halfback in Walsh, but we've quickly become overly reliant on him. Its like players aren't taking responsibility to create things themselves, just thinking "Walshy'll sort us out"

Roby is being played into the ground. He's our top tackler, and putting in 80 mins a week. As a result, he looks jaded and half the attacking threat of a player he was. He needs to be used more intelligently.

Let's look at it another way.

We've had potter, Royce, rush and Brown all take charge in recent years and all have failed!

I know the squads have changed over them periods but not by much.

Could it be the players just ain't good enough?

Yep!

That's my way of thinking to. Maybe he could get that few extra % out of them but IMO you could put any coach in the world in charge of this team and wouldn't win anything.

I could name players IMHO ain't good enough but I know I'd get shot down.

Of todays team to 2006 there would only be Roby be good enough and he would only get a bench spot.

Yes your probably right. IMO the are players that have been praised so much this year that ain't all that great.