No its not,thats bull.

Potter was looking for job back in Oz primarily prior to taking
the Saints job.

I think he is just marking time until an NRL job
becomes vacant.

I can see a departure prior to the end of the season
(if results go badly) and certainly no extension.

If he does go in season, Rush / Purtill would fill in
ala Huddersfield did before Brown.

Seems a nice bloke with technical insight into the game.
However he will never deliver an attacking flair
saints style , that many fans still crave.

If he doesn't win anything, he's got little chance of getting a job in the NRL.

FWIW though, last years disjointed performances weren't all down to him and his tactics. We rarely had a settled halfback partnership and when we did Long was generally poor, add to that a much weakened front row and the necessary use of youngsters for large parts of the season and we were never going to be setting the world alight.

Certainly that was bandied around before his appointment but surely the Saints job is not a "marking time" appointment, unless it suited our board to make a short term appointment.

He could have easily stayed with a relatively successful Catalan team to mark time and we weren't desperate for his services.

Our Chairman has shown himself to be a shrewd operator throughout his reign and Potter`s appointment on the face of it doesn't seem to fit the pattern (unless he was cheap).

The thing with Mick is that you just don't see the little bits that make you think he'll make it work in the long run. If we were playing really badly but there were signs of his masterplan coming together you could understand it and put up with it.

But last season I didn't see anything to suggest there was any future upturn in performances on the horizon.

Care to back your comment up?

You're very good at, provierbially, throwing punches and then running and hiding before you get some back.

Oh Im sorry I wasnt permenantly logged on untill you made an appearance.

Age has nothing to do with one man rugby and everything to do with tactics.
Also,would you like to back up your comment and compare the average age of our squad with the rest of the league seeing as you made the point.

I noticed last season that the sense of expectation was missing. At times it was very much a case of trying to keep awake and hoping we'd win. The semi agains Shudds being a case in point.
Potter seems to lack inspiration and motivation or rather he doesn't show evidence of it. Everything seemed "not quite right".
I watched him arrive for one match wearing a suit jacket that was obviously too large for him. Not that it's a crime to be in such a jacket or that it is reflective of his coaching abilities but it rather summed up the suitation......everything there but somehow not quite fitting.
It left a sense of uneasiness.
At the Hull KR away game... it seemed as if some-one had run over the team puppy...again that sense of tiredness and lack of coaching inspiration.
I would rather watch us lose after playing an inspired and exhilarating game than win after I'd been reduced to reading the programme whilst waiting for some exciting play.
Give us a coach with flair, someone who shows his desire to win, who jumps up and down when we score, who claps the fans, who rolls his eyes at the camera, who turns his cap backwards, who looks as if he really wants to be there.
Anything other than some-one who sits and waits for the mothership to take him back to the southern hemisphere.

Great way of putting it. I agree.

Not someone like Daniel Anderson then? Who did none of the things you say that you want in a coach?

Or someone like John Monie was at Wigan. On match day he looked more like a solicitor than a jump up and down coach.

I suspect he (26boots) preferred the Alex Murphy style of coaching.

I know which style I would have.

Rubbish. When we beat Leeds at Headingley, we were playing excellent, patient and not unexpansive rugby. Potter might not have given us a perfect season, lack of tacticalvariety is probably his mainproblem, but statements like that are ridiculous.
Get Millward in! 70 - nil here we come!

Couldn`t agree more.

He most certainly did!!

Are you sure you aren't confusing Anderson with Millward? Anderson was as reserved as Potter is.