Heard a strong rumour that Potter asked Big Mac for some backing as to the senior pro's are not working for him.

IMO Potter will be gone before half way through next season.

People laughed at Saddened's despondency, but he has been proved right - fortunate scappings against lesser teams has been punished at the latter end of the season wherby our luck has well and truly run out.

The attack has looked attrocious this year, going through varying degrees of predicatbility, dourness and chuckle brother esque mistakes.

If it is true that Potter has lost the dressing room, and lets face it there were rumours on here of the bust up with Graham, then we need a miracle for the play offs no matter how hard you try to convince yourself to the contrary.

I think the fans are starting to question Potter now. I think only a good performance in the Play Offs will convince fans otherwise. At the moment, the coach and players simply aren't cutting the mustard.

Personally, I'm still unsure on him.

The season isn't over. I seem to remember Leeds fans questioning McClennan after they'd lost their way and look what happened to their season. They have even finished top this year which is an improvement.

Id be tempted to suggest the players leaving are the most unhappy in the dressing room! No matter what people think, there is an ego problem at Saints, Graham last week, Long last night. Its partly down to the success you guys have had, no matter how grounded people are, success breeds egos.

Once Potter has put these egos in check, and a little bit of reality has hit home that they aren't invincible, then there are some top senior players and quality youngsters in the squad that he has to put on the paddock and play an exciting brand of footy.

Have a little faith, i mean its a bad year and you reached a semi-final and finished second in the league table with an outstanding chance of getting to and winning the grand final! jeez, what a crap season!

Whilst I agree with the latter part of your statement the first part is just pure speculation unless you know something nobody else on these forums knows.

The problem Mick Potter has is one of the transitional change, the 2 nd half of the season has been shocking and coincides with some of the senior players not offered extended contracts. Put this alongside the injury situation, the coach is going to find it difficult to find a winning formula to work from.
My main concern is that the players don,t look happy and look frustrated in the way they play and the way the game is controlled by the officials.
Next week is a make or break game, win and we can create form to get us to the grand final, if we lose then I think we,ve got to accept we are not good enough to achieve anything this season.

What a wonderful day.

The sun is shinning.

Southstander is a good read.

"the - enterainers.tv" is a good read.

A nice scent of trophy polish is in the air.

Good luck for the playoffs.

Potter should go at the end of the season.He has no presence and his tactics stink.

If he had any balls he would have taken off both Long and Pryce last night as both of them couldn't give a toss.

Good to see people are coming round to
my way of thinking finally. I said all along he was a very poor choice and everyone said he was being brought in to develop the squad. We aren't building a squad so a better choice of coach would have been a John Kear type capable of getting the best possible output from very limited resources. I don't see things improving for Potter as we are not
making signings that will improve the squad.

How long do you give him before you admit it was a bad idea?

Time he went mate if hes lost respect of the players then he might as well pack his bags now, in fact I will do it for him.

Saddened I remember way back when it was announced that he was being considered both yourself and me stated there and then that we did not want him and it would be the wrong choice, seems as though we are been proven right.

There's no point sacking him now. The Play Offs start next week, he has to stay until at least the end of the season before the daggers come in.

Do you wanna know what the saints players did to the leaders shield before they handed it over, made me laugh when a few Leeds players started snogging on it.

You have been rambling doom and gloom for 6 years and finally Saints are looking as though the wheels have come off.

Is it coincidence