Great post. Hard to argue with.
Highlights a lot of truth.

Hold on, mate. You can't question someone that got rid of our most successful SL coach and replaced him with someone that has coached the desire and ability to beat Saints out of pretty much the same team.

To be honest, apart from Powell, I'm struggling to name anyone else in our pack who doesn't fall into one of four categories - too young, too old, too small or too injury prone.

Don't get me wrong, we've got some good players. Guys like Faz and Greenwood are, on certain days, as good as any other 2nd rows out there. Sadly they aren't dependable week in and week out.

Sadly the only consistent player we have is Isa, but I don't think he's that great.

We need a couple of big performers who do it week in week out. Sutton and Bateman for example churned out yards and played most weeks. I'm hoping that next year Faz, Greenwood and Burgess can be consistent as each should be a 100m + player.

Isa is consistent for his own standards, which aren't great. I feel sorry for him in many aspects; he plays with heart and aggression, but is too slow to be a good centre and don'ts have the size or go forward to be a top back rower.
He's ok as cover...no more.

I'd agree with that assessment.

It's no real wonder that we struggled to beat Saints when there's a few young guns in the side as well as Isa. The size simply isn't there to punch holes.

Yeah pretty much. I'd have played Greenwood. I think he needs game time to rebuild his confidence in the collision. Once he finds his feet he's just what we need, big unit of a back rower.
Just need to stick with him.

It isn’t as black and white with Isa as saving he isn’t big enough and doesn’t make enough ground. He sets a tone, he’s aggressive, he’s durable and he’s as fit as a fiddle but he was absolutely dreadful on Friday and I can’t deny that. We need more go forward and Greenwood is the only forward I can think of who’ll guarantee that, so with that in mind I’d bench Isa but he’s the type of character who’ll react to that and still play a big part on Friday and beyond. He wasn’t too small to give Sene Lefao an absolute battering a few weeks back and it was relentless pummelling that played the biggest part in him losing his head.

I'd probably argue that setting the tone isn't enough, especially if there's already a couple of other undersized lads in the squad. Someone has to make the metres.

Great post.

It was 2-1 to Saints last season.

And throughout Wane’s tenure we played Saints 17 times. We won 8 and they won 9 of our encounters.

Whats Lams record?