...bad decision or a move in the right direction?

For me its a knee jerk reaction that will probably backfire....Saints have only been getting beat by small margins...not a lot in it....they also have a much weaker squad this year....not sure what a new coach is going to bring?....they will still have an average looking squad with average looking players.

Sculthorpe and Cunningham is the rumour from Stains fans at work

The guy took them to a grand final last year to sack him so soon in a season just shows how much in turmoil the whole Saints club is in on and off the pitch LMFAO LOVE IT :0)

I posted on the Saints board yesterday that to remove Royce from his job would be the wrong move. He has been replaced by Mike Rush and Keiron Cunningham. Who is Mike Rush????

Performance coach!

From a Wire point of view - hopefully Ian's brother

Mike Rush is Head of High Performance and former assistant coach under Daniel Anderson.

The bloke responsible for all our young guys coming through.

Bloody stupid by Saints this is.

Desperate measures sheer panic has set in. But its great seeing them lose week in week out

The advantage we have is that we dont play Saints this weekend. You know what they say about sides and new coaches.

Mike Rush and Keiron Cunningham (Remember him ) have been appointed as interim head coach and assistant respectively. It'll be interesting to see how Rush goes in that role.

The strongest rumour is that Nathan Brown from Huddersfield has accepted the job from the end of the season with Rush and Cunningham seeing this season out.

Another big rumour from the same sources as Simmons' sacking is that we've signed Jamie Lyon for next season and it will be announced shortly.

Keiron Cunningham ♥

If correct this will be fantastic both for Saints and English Rugby League.
Perhaps I am jumping ahead of myself but who is leaving to make room on the Cap which I have read Saints are spending up to to the Max.

I heard they're replacing perry for lyon in 2 or 3 years


On the simmons thing, it is a mistake. The problem at saints is no spine, aging players not performing, youngesters are tripe and lazy aussies (perry)

Royve was doing will in spite of a poor team for a while.

The theory behind Lyon moving could have legs IMO, but who knows if it's actually true. Cherry-Evans has kicked off over his deal and they need to cut some players to fit him in. Lyon has always said he wants to come back to play for Saints. We expected that to be in 2 years rather than next year, but I think this could be an acceptable solution to Manly's problems over signing their young talent up to new deals.

We are losing Flannery and Meli (And hopefully Wellens) this season, but as neither are on the quota, it looks like Soliola could be the one leaving. There have been people posting that he's off to Harlequins RU for next season. That would be a blow, but if we signed a prop as well we would be much stronger overall.

The current thinking is that we're a good contract short of the cap at the moment as we made bids for props that went to other clubs but haven't signed anyone since those offers.