i went to the Catalan game and dixons try wasn't a try as wellens tackled the player in the air, if people think we played well in that game they are disillusioned as everyone on out coach commented on what an average side we looked

He hasn't chosen a winger on the bench. He has chosen an outside back on the bench and he explained why: it is to cover for injuries and avoid wholesale changes in personnel mid match. It has been a wise move, too. Without Foster on the bench, we would have had to have made changes against Wigan and against the Quins. As it was, because Foster was on the bench, he just slipped in and provided cover.

Its an entire waste of a spot for me, unless its some like wheeler or lomax who can cover the halves as well and spell kyle and or leon, but still i'm not a fan of it

That wasn't what has been reported. We were offside apparently.

Well, your coach had their opinions. I have read differently. I didn't go so I don't know but when I watched the tries I saw well structured tries scored and that is what I was hoping to see.

And it is perfectly possible that in fact we are now just an ordinary side. Ever thought of that?

You was the one who stated we went backwards under potter, I'm just stating IMO we are on course to make massive steps backwards based on our start under Royce.

The would be nobody as happy as me if he turns out to be a great coach and gets us winning things but at the moment we look terrible.

Like I said on another post, three players have told me that they don't feel confident under Royce and his methods are dated.

But Wello is one team member likely to break down. He is playing on injections. Wheeler doesn't play fullback. Lomax probably could and in fact I would agree that Lomax would make better cover. However, he has been needed at centre to cover for Wheeler who was injured. We are thin on cover this season.

You was the one who stated we went backwards under potter, I'm just stating IMO we are on course to make massive steps backwards based on our start under Royce.

The would be nobody as happy as me if he turns out to be a great coach and gets us winning things but at the moment we look terrible.

Like I said on another post, three players have told me that they don't feel confident under Royce and his methods are dated.

Well, no. Everyone just has to work for longer. But that would be the case anyway if we had four props on the bench!

Three players told me he was a fantastic coach.

they said the same about Millward!
Its way too soon to judge him, on that i think we agree, but he hasnt had a great start by any measure

Indeed. And he did wonderful things with Saints (as well as some pretty awful things!). Wello's favourite coach was Daniel Anderson. So there.


No, he hasn't. But he hasn't had a great set of circumstances to start with either. I would love to have seen what he could have done with Leon and Kyle at halfback, all our props in place, our backline fit and Wello not playing on injections.

Except that Simmons also stated that he wanted to slot players in to cover rather than swapping and changing players around, as per Potter. Jon Wilkin, for one, has come out in favour of that approach as he has been quoted as saying he is enjoying his rugby now that he plays in one position. Scott Moore also said that, stating that he didn't know where he was last season with all the changes he had to cope with. He played at centre once and he said he had never done so before and must be the slowest player in the team so never was that more unlikely a position for him to play.

We had too much instability under Potter. It was possibly a request of the players that they stick to their own spots wherever possible. I think that is fair enough. And like I said, Foster was used because he can cover wing and fullback. Meli shifted into centre, where he has played many times before, when Foster was needed to cover Lomax on Friday.