what about cullen



your right, we should wait until next year, when everyone else improves again and they may even over take us as second best.

But at least we will all sleep better because we did the "noble" thing and stuck with potter!

Perhaps he will once Long's gone. From an outsider's perspective, it often seems that he's content to play a secondary role to Long in terms of dictating play. I don't doubt he's got the ability but I would question whether he has confidence in that ability.

nope, dont think thats the issue, as long was out for ages and pryce didnt improve any.

plenty of ability, and he is by no means rubbish

i just think he cant be bothered, and lost his appetite. it would be interesting to know what his attitude is like in training.

The attack has 1 dimensional, which has stifled us and forced us up the middle, but to demand his head after 1 season where he's taken the reigns of and ageing and shriking squad, finished 2nd in the table, got to the semis of the CC (beaten by a very good Hudds performance) and narrowly lost the GF is folly imo. This is the guy who got the Catalans to third in the table, remember - you don't become a bad coach overnight!

nobody thinks he is a bad coach, they would be fools to. however many people may choose to dislike his coaching

on a similar note, fielden became a bad prop over night so it is possible.



figure out which icon is willie, and which is fielden

So are we demanding that he should not only win trophies, but also in the manner we deem fit? Or are we just demanding that we're at least entertaining losers?

For me, decimation through injury and then the resulting fatigue in the front row players meant we were starved of any decent go forward/platform and was a major contributing factor to our dour approach. We looked jaded imo.

Regarding Potter and his stature at Saints, I am afraid the boo-boys won''t be happy but he isn't going anywhere.

The fact of the matter is thus: Big Mac knows we're in a transitional phase and he wanted someone to come in and blood the next generation of kids. We all know this and we all know how well Potter did over 2 to 3 years at Catalans. Note the length of time there people, that's 2 to 3 times longer than he's had here, yet he's still taken us to the Grand Final, the semi-final of the CC and 2nd in the league.

His remit this season has been to play it up the middle. Why? Because we have no pace outwide, yet we cannot just replace the wingmen as we cannot afford to release them from their contracts and if no one else is interested in taking up their contracts then I am afraid we have to make do. Potter wants us to revert to the side that throws the ball around left, right and centre, but until we blood the kids sufficiently to be confident enough to do this, the club will use it's primary weapon, that being the pack.

Potter was always going to be in an unenviable position, but why? DA was a great coach, but I think we're getting a bit over-emotional in our thoughts of his legacy. Fair enough, we won the CC every year he was here, but we also failed in the GF more times than we won it under him, yet he is held up as some kind of wunderkind coach, the 2006 season apart.

If Potter had won us the GF, if Meli hadn't had made those 2 excruciating cock-ups, if Maurie hadn't tricked himself into thinking he was Tony P and if Bryn hadn't turned his back on Diskin on our own try line, we'd be talking of winning the GF and you know what the sad thing is, the same people would still be posting the same threads on he condemning Potter for being a different person to our last coach.

He cannot win at Saints.

Let me remind me what Anderson did in his first year in charge? Finished top and didn't make the grand final! Also let me remind you what he did in the last 2 grand finals! lost both!

Put it a bit more succinctly than I did there...

Can i bring up his paramatta failure 2 weeks ago too?

No problems with axing the others, but Maurie's not been that bad. It was only around the mid-season point when everyone was saying he's "back to his best".