He spent last season restructuring the squad by popular request from the fans and board - so he's effectively had one pre-season with the players. They're still things to improve...many, but we're joint top with none of the other sides playing consistently either. Let's get things into perspective please.

Are you sack him or keep him?

Just been reading through this thread and I wonder if some of us are guilty of letting Phil Clarke live rent-free inside our heads. Our dip is not as bad as we are making out. We have had 2 very creditable wins against Catalans away (who are now top of the league lest we forget). Could it be those wins took it out of us, so we went on to lose the next 2 both times?

Whatever, our first 7 games weren't the finished articles some are suggesting - I think we drew the second half against Leeds; we definitely went AWOL for the last 20 minutes against Cas. We were awful second half against FC. Leigh came back at us at our place. Salford had us on the ropes for a while.

If we bounce back and win the next couple in the league and do the do in the Cup at the pie-dome, noone is going to remember Magic weekend. And looking at the pics they sent back my lads aren't going to remember it whatever happens.

For me he's currently on borrowed time although I agree there is a lack of quality coaching alternatives available at the minute. I'm very concerned about our recent performances and how similar they look to last season.

His blind faith in players who are simply and never will be good enough continues to irk the fans. Minikin should be nowhere near this team, let alone starting over one of our most exciting youngsters in years; Thewlis. Dudson isn't worthy of a salary and in Mata'utia and Ratchford we have the two worst centres in the league. Furthermore, we're letting Daryl Clark go to one of our biggest rivals and replacing him with a player we deemed not good enough four years. Lastly, one of our new recruits appears to be heading home next week due to disciplinary reasons so when I hear this argument that Powell has spent a full preseason restructuring the squad, it looks to me like he hasn't done that good of a job at it to be honest.

Irrespective of whether we sack Powell or not, the truth is we are unlikely to win the GF nor will we finish bottom.

We'll probably be among the best of the rest.

Whether that is sufficient to keep Powell in a job is probably subjective. All I'd say is neither Justin Holbrook or Kristan Woolfe were on anyones radar until Saints appointed them, so the argument that there's no-one else to appoint doesn't hold water, I'm afraid.