To be fair to the posters on the Stains board, they all seem to be talking very sensibly about the situation as a whole.... Apart from the usual nupties of course!!! And yes we should enjoy whatever discomfort they are experiencing, what goes around comes around. I'm not bothered what was said back in 2006, we all know we would have said similar if the boot had been on the other foot... Best to sit back and watch em squirm...

Why would we want to forget such a heroic fight-back, or the dramatic way the fans flocked in to support a struggling team. If you lot sink to that level, it will be very interesting to see how your support base responds.

Stains have big problems. Sacking their coach this early on is laughable.

Their pivotal players have all gone now. Longy, Joint, Graham, Cunningham.

Their new batch doesn't have the correct vintage.

I think everybody knows whats going to happen, they will lose to Leeds, lose to Wire, then beat us on Good Friday and turn their season around.

And Wiggy & Baldy will be creaming themselves on Sky that the 'Super Saints' are back

Who gives a s***

7 pages suggests that somebody does.

Good grief. Is that an appointment made on the basis of fond memory, or what?

Apparently so. I don't think it really matters wether they have a certificate or not. He is well respected so will hopefully bring out a bit more passion in the team. I hope...

That may go some way to it, but he'll need the technical know-how too.

Anyway, it doesn't matter too much. All the clever money seems to be on Brown taking over at the end of the year.

Saints have had a total lack of direction and are playing one up football.

We can drive for yards and have shown at times we can defend well, but we're not coming up with any plays, however simple, to test the defences of the opposition. We don't drop much ball, we don't drop off the tackle to easily, but when it comes to [iplaying footy[/i we've got zero.

Remember the semi against you last year? When we had all that possesion but couldn't score in the first half? Well that is every minute of every week at the moment.

You can talk about us not having Cunningham and Sculthorpe, that may be why we're not taking home trophies, but that squad is easily good enough to be [icompeting[/i with the best clubs.
If a couple of players are below par, then you can critcise them. When a whole squad is failing to perform, I'm afraid you have to look at the coaching.

Lomax has come in for some flack. "Obviously not a scrum half" is the common one. I'm not sure if it his best position, but he won YPOTY from that position last year and I remember thinking he'd have made a better fist of it for England when I was watching Chase do it last year. You don't become a bad player over night.

Mike Rush is the highly rated coach, after impressing in various role with the club which included coaching the juniors. Cunnigham will help add clout and take some pressure off. They need to bring some half decent plays and re inject a little belief and we'll be twice the team.

I think Lomax would make a superb FB, playing the same role that Sam does for us.

He would. We think that was the plan for him before last year's somewhat unprecidented success and 1/2.