Don't be ridiculous, we should be [izilling[/i teams who aren't in the top four!

Oh and it's a good job Potter is going, he doesn't smile enough, doesn't look good in sunglasses and doesn't have a ghost written column in the Star. All far more important than him successfully integrating a team full of youngsters into a side whilst still challenging for honours...

I was pleased to read Mr Potter's comments on this point in this week's RL press. He agrees with me, it seems. Most of the credit for our young players must go to Mike Rush and the junior coaches for the young talent coming through as all that was going on before he arrived here. As he says, he gives them the confidence to play at SL level. I'm very happy to give him credit for that, but everything else was done before he turned up. And I sure that previous coaches would have done similarly had we endured the injury crises of the last two seasons under them.

We do seem to leak more points than we used to, that's for sure, which wouldn't be that much of a problem to me if we didn't have knock out games coming up where bad defensive habits/sloppy defence/whatever anyone wants to call it will undermine our chances of winning. I am concerned that we haven't managed to conquer the urge to let in a try just before halftime/full time. That seems to have been haunting us on and off all season.

We're significantly behind Wigan in points difference and we need to close the gap on Wire, which means getting defensively smarter, if we are going to have a chance of pipping them to second (assuming we win and they lose as appropriate!). It would be nice to have home playoff games, is all I'm thinking about really.

Royce Simmonds was only young when he was head coach of Penrith. Since then his gone away to learn off the best. If Eamon thinks he is the rught man for the job then so be it. Tim Sheens rates him very highly, as he appointed him assistant coach for the National team.

Yeah, scoring more tries than anyone else in the competition sure does get tiresome.

I agree, have trust in Big Mac

The new ground and keeping fans updated, Millward leaving and of course Long?? - what was the attendance on Friday? when did you last see any serious marketing to improve crowds?

Millward didn't - he signed no mark journeymen from the lower leagues when we were really stretched (both at Saints and at Wigan). We also conceded more points per game and scored less points per game towards the end of his reign than we do now. Yet on a couple of occasions you (and others) have said they'd rather have him back than keep Potter, which I find odd.

I fear there's a huge slice of "grass is always greener" amongst Saints fans at the moment, and I hope it doesn't all blow up in our faces with someone like Royce Simmons.

What about Millward and Long? Both clearly the right decisions.

He isnt building the new stadium, Langtree are responsible for press releases etc, Millward and Long?????? the best decisions he probably has made is getting shut of them, and as for crowds, we're about 3rd/4th in the attendance leagues this year with our stadium, thats brilliant

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FearTheVee and Saint Simon, how defensive you are at times, can you ever be open minded? I am no Wigan supporter but you have to admire how first class there marketing is, remember Wigan and Warrington are both smaller towns and compete with St Helens, in fact Wigan fare much better,

It is not disloyal to be constructive with comments, the much promised model of the ground for public viewing, is that going to be blamed on Langtree?

Big Mac are you like to call him seems to me be more Small Time with what he puts into the club. I accept that we have problems at Quins RL but our chairman puts his Money were his mouth is! we are doing everything we can do marketing, but a lot of it is not really working, but at least attempts are being made to increase attendances!