Quote: Saddened! "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.'"
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.
