Quote: SaintsFan "Now, that's what I said in context, rather than in terms of your personal agenda.'"
I have no "agenda". My only "agenda" in making my post was to question blaming Potter for players picking up injuries as if in RL you can somehow avoid taking on bigger opposition.
Quote: SaintsFan "You don't barge up the middle time and time again when you have a squad of the size Saints have. There are not enough big blokes in it to do that.'"
The injuries weren't picked up doing that.
Quote: SaintsFan "It's bad planning, bad coaching. If you choose not to see that or you are too clueless to see that then that is not my problem but yours. And I seriously don't care what you think of me. '"
I do like how taking a coaching badge has suddenly made you the oracle and able to bandy around insults like "clueless", "idiot" etc. Hopefully that's not how you coach.
Quote: SaintsFan "Incidentally, I saw Ade's injury happen. It wasn't an accident; it was a direct result of the tackle. He's not a prop and shouldn't be used as one.'"
He was tackling out in the channels, not being used as a prop. In what way do you think he was being used as a prop out of interest?
Quote: SaintsFan "Whereas some people have their own head so far up their own backsides that they can no longer see the truth for crap. Clearly you read no posts.'"
Again, hopefully you don't speak to your young players like you speak to me.
Quote: SaintsFan "This isn't about winning our first game of the season. It's about seeing the same old rubbish being played by our guys that was played in the final third to a half of last season. Nothing has changed and he's had a long off season with most of the players but still they can't attack - and in fact on Friday night they couldn't defend either.'"
I don't particularly disagree, as I say my point is that Potter is not to blame for us picking up injuries on Saturday any more than Anderson was to blame for players dropping like flies in his first season en route to missing out on the GF from 1st.
Quote: SaintsFan "If they turn out against Bradford and play stunning rugby league, win or lose, then I'll happily stop calling for his head and wait for another few games (to see if it is a reaction from the players rather than a sudden upswing in his coaching abilities). If the sound, attacking rugby league that I know we can play returns I will happily back track. However, until that happens, should it ever do under Potter, then I will quite happily join the growing number of people expressing their displeasure at his influence on the team I support.'"
Good stuff, and I will quite happily defend Potter when the accusations are about things beyond his control (such as the injuries on Saturday).
We looked rusty. We were always going to as we didn't have the quality of run out that Hull did against KR. Injuries didn't help - we started the game very well before we needed to start re-jigging.
We're not in the abysmal shape the over-reaction on this board would suggest. Our last competitive game before last night was the Grand Final (which we almost won) and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see us muller the Bulls next week to kickstart our season.
