Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! KC is hardly a pin up boy. Seriously though I hope he does well but not too well! The trend of having English coaches at our top clubs is very welcome. However you may need to be patient with him and not expect instant success. It will be interesting too see how much he has learnt his coaching trade under Brown. That is my slight concern because I don't rate Brown as a coach. He was not good for Saints despite winning trophies in 2014. Huddersfield were better after he left and so maybe the same will happen at Saints?

i dont believe half of the posts on here doubting cunningham..not had much experience..etc..etc...neither had mike rush at first team level... but we played some good rugby under him.....on about contacts in australia blah.blah.blah..i cant see baron greenback shaun wane having much contacts over in australia either but the pies aint playing too bad....royce simmons..mick potter both aussie coaches..CR@P.....theres a lot of aussies know of kierons reputation ..in fact some called him one of the best hookers in the world..so i cant see any aussies not wanting to come over here and play for him....give the lad a bleedin chance for gods sake..only time will tell if he'll make it or not..(i for one think he will)....i'm well chuffed he's got the job and lets hope he shuts a lot of the knockers up!

I can see the similar scenario of when Anderson took over the giants from Brown, the advantage with KC is that he has done a coaching apprenticeship, knows the workings of the club, is accustomed to pressure situations. If he has to rebuild the team that might be different but it looks as though he has a good environment around him with decent players, assistant coaches and respect from the executive and chairman,
Listing to the bbc interview it sounds as though he knows his own mind and his ambition was to be always coach of this club, all we can do is to give him our total backing to get him "up and running"

That reminds me when are we going to have the first coach to be sacked thread?

I can't see him lasting past next year (Baloo that is).

We played some of the dullest rugby ever under Mike Rush/Keiron Cunningham in 2012 (and it was apparently mostly Cunningham, according to Rush). If that's what we have to look forward to this time around then the speccies will all be snoring by halftime!

well ive just been snoring at your post..i can see your one of the party poopers off here..great words of encouragement to help kieron on his way.....not worth u turning up then next season son..still all is not lost you can get the scores off the radio!.. ..ps..just noticed your your name SAINTS FAN..after those comments you dont seem to live up to your username..

With Lomax, Swift, Turner, Percival, Makinson, Burns and Walsh do you truly believe we are go ing to get dull rugby.

Looks like Saints Fan is getting her jabs in early this time.

no one will do until Royce returns.

As for the GB coach, well done. But anyone can be GB coach. Even a reserve coach in Austrailia, who can't get a job in SL.

But yes he coached GB, but that was 3 games. I'm pretty sure he was not a club coach before Saints and not even sure if he was an assistant anywhere???

Point being every coach has to start somewhere.

The only sad thing about becoming head coach is that you effectively accept it's the beginning of the end of your ties with a club. As sooner or later all coaches move on. Success is fleeting and so are the fans and loyalties for a head coach. He may get 2 years. May get 5. But in the end it's a job with only one outcome.

Pop quiz which was the last team before Saints this year to top the table with 8 losses??????

Saints in 2007!!!!!

spot on there judder man......

Let's get Royce back and play with 16 men every week and put a winger on the bench while the players are dead on their feet someone sat on their bottom on the bench


Royce is the worst coach we ever had

We didn't this season so hopefully we wont next either, especially if Walsh is allowed the freedom of the pitch in the way he was during 2014. With Burns playing for us we should certainly see some feisty rugby!

How can so many people be so so wrong and one women be so so right?

KC is crap because he was thrown in the deep end in 2012 and played dull rugby with a team that had all it's confidence stripped away by a coach that was awful and was a laughing stock among players.

Nathan Brown was crap because he didn't play the Harlem globetrotter rugby with a team that had no halves (partly down to Royce). Brown got us to the semi in his first year and in his 2nd year won the double but he's crap.

Royce brought in two terrible signings in Hohaia who was never a 6 and laffranchi who was never a out and out prop.

Brown has rebuilt the team that potter and Royce had demolished but he's crap.

Jesus women, just admit you got it wrong.