I don’t think a director of rugby would be a slight on Lam, it would more be a pointer to the work Kris Rads is doing on recruitment and retention, as that is surely a role any director of rugby would take on. I’ve said above that our first job has to be to look at our recruitment for 2020, because as things stand the squad looks like it could be in a shambolic state for next season unless major moves are made and things like retirements are put to bed soon (and not at the end of the year).

Maybe they want a director of rugby to work on that now but if they do then they need to get him in pronto.

What an idiot!

On the Smith discussion we don’t need him.

We just need a good coach. Wether it be Lam I’m not sure.

If we win today we are 4 points off top 4. We the injuries and off field issues has Lam done such a bad job?

You really need to stop this pathetic trolling, mate.

The fact that Saints fans were nowhere in sight on here until Wigan started losing only makes you look more of a berk.

Instead of p***ing about hiring a director of rugby or a defence coach why don’t they spend that money where we really need it, which is on players, forwards especially.

Agreed. Surely you get more bang for your buck on thew pitch? That is what fans pay to see, after all.

Or maybe a marketing director who would actually get us more fans and revenue to spend on players?

Well, yeah, but I don't see why we should need to go to the expense of hiring someone new for that; it ought to be the responsibility of someone already at the club.

We could do better than a big game choker like smith

The guy responsible left the club and replaced by someone I believe with nominal experience of heading up a marketing department as well as his other role in the club. Part of the cutbacks at the club together with reducing the playing wage bill

This is something I’d posted about but other posters will have us believe otherwise. Just because we may hire more back room staff doesn’t mean they work better. I saw an advert in Springfield just past ProCo as if you were driving up to the Brick Makers arms, the big billboard had 3 red faces and 3 blue faces saying ‘The Derby Is Coming’. Now I’m a massive Game of Thrones fan and I only just about got what they were getting at and could t make out who the faces were, especially driving past. Massive waste of money by someone who is unskilled, unqualified and unsuitable for the marketing role of the biggest rugby league club in the world. We are going backwards.

Biggest RL club in the world?

Do you know this for a fact, or are you just hooting like a kettle?

This is a genuine question, because I feel there is a lot of hooting going on at present in various quarters.

Lots of people on here claim to know stuff. It's difficult to work out who does and who doesn't, but until proof is offered I'd council browsers against taking every bit of bad news they see on here as gospel. Too many of them do.