After what appeared to be a write off of a season, Rush and KC have put some real pride back in the redvee, particulalrly with what is generally considered to be a squad lacking in quality. Time to look ahead now, with confidence, to next year. Come on you Saints.

We did well this season given the lack of an experienced proven halfback in the squad, if we want to have a hope in hell of winning something that will need to change. Personally I dont count semi finals as success, were slowly going backwards as a team, hopefully Brown can change that.

Proud of the effort the team put in tonight but we simply lack the class to push on and win titles.

I must take my hat off to Mike Rush and Keiron and the outstanding job they have done this season. Well done you did us proud pity it had to be down to very poor refereeing that stopped us getting to the grand final. Don't worry we'll be there again next season. Good luck in what you do next year.

Can't blame the ref for the loss. We lost because we lack a proper halfback

Serious question, why do you need to replace them with Brown, they are doing a great job.

A bit of a mixed bag for me. I expected a touch more from our new signings and I'm not altogether happy about the way some of our younger players have been treated this season - not least Lomax, Dixon, Gaskell and Foster.

Shenton has proved to be a non-entity and Wilkin, whilst putting in plenty of effort defensively, has been desperately poor going forward and as the third attacking pivot.

On the plus side we have shown plenty of commitment and guts, especially when the season looked like imploding early on.

Looking forward to next season our pack looks more than capable (which is most of the battle when you're hunting for trophies). So Brown can have the confidence to experiment with different attacking combinations and tactics.

The most positive thing about this season for me is Josh Jones. As long as he doesn't have second season syndrome the lad could be a star for us next year.

We shouldn't have made it this far, but we have. That in itself is something to be proud.

Makinson has also improved of late, just hope he gets decent service from Turner next season.

Makinson was great last season and has been great this season. He is one of just a very few players in our team who actually plays up in big games rather than falls apart. With a decent coach on board, Makinson should be a real star for us.

Absolute rot - we have a squad oozing with quality by contemporary SL standards. We just simply haven't had any coaching worthy of the name to utilise what it's capable of - 3rd in the table, a semi and a quarter final are the very, very least you could reasonably expect any half-baked coach to have been able to achieve with them. This has been a season of massive underachievement for Saints and there's no glossing over the fact.

Anyway, I'm perfectly happy to put Rush and Simmons behind us and consign the last 4 years of waste to the scraphead along with mercifully the now broken 5 in-a-row. I have an unhealthy amount of naive hope that Brown is the man to finally get us clicking for next season and am looking forward to 2013 a darn sight more eagerly than I was 2012...

I think it's fair to say we have underachieved. There's a lot of revisionist guff about with fans claiming they had very few hopes at the start of the season. Yes, we had suffered a massive loss with Graham. But Laffranchi and Hohaia were highly regarded in the NRL and with Soliola fit, a bunch of talented kids on the verge of blossoming into good SL players and no great signings made by our main rivals we had every reason to think we could win it.

Hear, hear! We actually had comparatively few injuries this year too for the first time in aeons, so there's been even less excuse. Anyone who wants to congratulate Rush for anything needs to have a think...

A side oozing with quality? Are you watching the same team as me? We ain't a bad team but we certainly not oozing with quality!

I think most saints fans will agree that we over achieved this year. The current squad is possibly the worst we've had in the super league era but as the standards of super league have dropped its kept us competitive.

We went into this season with no halfbacks, one centre and two out and out props. The balance of the squad is all wrong.

The more I read your posts the more I agree with most posters on here, your a complete numpty

As an outsider (Wire fan) I think you have overachieved this year given the make up of the suad and fully agree with Ninja in his analysis.

I said in another post that to win we would have to stop Roby, Soliola and to some extent Puletua.
I think we did that for the most part, however you were clearly the better team in the first half, but our defensive effort was awesome. In previous years we'd have folded. I was relieved to go in only 2 points down.
Going in 8 points down wouldn't have exaggerated your dominance in the first half.

I think Rush and Cunningham have done a good job given the position after 5-6 games this season but clearly they were only a stop gap solution.

Brown has done wonders for Hudds but they've had their blips. It'll be interesting to see how he goes, but for me the halves have been a problem. Having 2 younger guys there is a big ask. Hohaia (?sp) has been a disappointment given his reputation.