It's a total fallacy that a coach needs "his own team"

No coach ever gets a job with his chosen set of players.

Did Trent Robinson arrive at Roosters with his own team? Wayne Bennet at Souths this year?


A good coach gets the best out of the individuals he's given and devises a game plan to suit that group of individuals.


Good coaches usually make a positive impact quite quickly even if they've not chosen hardly any of the players personally.

Well if thats the case we all may as well stop buying season passes and tickets and just go to the cup games eh.

I really cant see it at all, i think the huddersfield games and the other drubbings its been a mixture of player attitudes when th8ngs arnt really coming off and the errors are stacking up alot of our platers mentalitys are to take the afternoon off. We saw the same thing with Catalans last night, it was even stevens at half time, they came out all guns blazing but a couple of tries for us and they gave up the arm wrestle.

Its the mentality that seperates the good teams from the champion teams, whats that old saints mantra again, never write of the saints or someth8ng?

We need to adopt it, not make excuses up

In 2016 and 17 we strutted our stuff in most games, giving other top teams easy info on how to snuff us out. We did ok in the cups but came up short in the semi-finals both times. Cas to some extent had the same problem. Keeping our form erratic means other teams struggle to pick us. It's a long season and we can drop games. What will be truly galling is if we miss out on the top 5 by points difference

What you need to look at is how disciplined and professional the second half performance was.
Cut out the indiscipline and errors,make full use of your possession and you can see the results.
Most of the play this season has been ridden with errors and indiscipline and results has suffered.
One thing is certain we cannot play in the wet.

4 penalties first half all by Westerman and they scored both their tries from them

….although, tbf, only saints have conceded fewer penalties than us this season.