yeh but why should we respect a call of him dropping our best player? it doesnt make sense

We don't know if he's carrying a knock for a start. It could just be squad rotation or potter may think the players hes picked are better suited to this particular game. It's not always ad straightforward as just playing your 17 best players.

mat i understand that but if herbert gets the nod potter has some questions to answer as hes clearly not gud enough

Yep sack the coach, there's a plan for the future. Maybe while your at it you should sack the next one as a premptive move, just incase they drop a player too.

Really glad that you are waiting in the wings to answer the call when Potter moves on. You clearly have considerably more coaching experience than him, and would not dream of considering your emotions regarding one specific player ahead of what selections and structure works best for the team. You also have clearly seen what has been happening in training this week, have a sound knowledge of what knocks and other ailments players are struggling with, and have sat down and watched all the videos of both our own players and the Stains players (with most of whom you are pretty familiar). What a replacement coach the club has all ready and waiting to take over the reins! I can't wait!

As Bullseye quotes Wayne Bennett in his sig, it goes something like "If you start listening to the fans, you'll soon be sitting with them".

Don't laugh mate. There are one or two on here who might think what a good idea that is...

In all fairness Potter said he would pick the team based on matchday performance and in the case of Briggs & Royston they can consider themselves very unlucky to be left out

Best thing to do is have a nightmare of a game, that way you're certain of playing the following week! Potter has been using this method with Herbert and Sykes all season..

I think if it was Macca who had dropped Briggs for Herbert after seeing a decent looking HB partnership for the first time in the season, and then proceeded to possibly drop our most in form player the comments on here would be a little different.

IMO Potter is not the worlds best coach as some people like to believe, I think he is good enough to get us back to being a top 8 side but I doubt we will win any silverware under him, he made some controversial decisions at his time at Saints and has made a few odd ones here at Bulls also. I'm not into the whole "let's sack the coach" thing at all but I think if these were the comments about Macca a lot less people would be jumping to the coach's rescue, it wasn't often people were wanting to trust odd decisions purely because Macca made it so why Potter?

I suspect that many have forgotten about the luxury of having a (fairly) full squad to pick from. It's hardly surprising since we've not had the luxury for some considerable time, but it allows things like squad rotation and possibly a bit of experimentation with systems. I'm not sure if the person who happens to be the coach actually makes any difference; the end result of most coaching appointments is usually the sack and there is probably more good fortune involved in being considered 'the world's best' coach than many would care to admit.

Outstanding defensive stint from Sibbit today.

Sibbit is a good player. PLayed really well today.

I thought BJ and Herbert combined well today. Decent kicks and Herbert was solid defensively.

Herbert had a cracking game, thought Sibbit did better today as well.

As did Crookes and i'm not sure how Shad/Briggs will get back in the side at the mo.