[Bullseye]

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:50 pm  

Sources close tell me Sykes won't be playing stand off for Potter.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:16 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Sources close tell me Sykes won't be playing stand off for Potter.

I think the fact that Potter isn't a clueless coach tells us that he'll only be played there in an emergency.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:09 am  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

I think the fact that Potter isn't a clueless coach tells us that he'll only be played there in an emergency.

Hmm. This is the same Potter who played a 20 year old at centre in a Grand Final when he had never previously played centre, it was his first Grand Final and he had been out of commission for three weeks? Or the same Potter who dropped a good defensive winger but retained the poorer one, giving Wigan a two try start? Or the same Potter who changed our lineup three times in the playoffs, one time just to facilitate a crocked player he was happy to bring back too early? If you want someone who is utterly clueless in terms of his lineups, interchanges and tactics (except when playing Warrington), you'll be happy with Potter.

However, he will integrate your youth into the first team. He can do that.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:18 am  

There seemed to be more than enough Saints fans willing to tell any Bulls fans at OT last night that this is a done deal!

Another rumour without substance, maybe, but it's all too coincidental to me....

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:58 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Hmm. This is the same Potter who played a 20 year old at centre in a Grand Final when he had never previously played centre, it was his first Grand Final and he had been out of commission for three weeks? Or the same Potter who dropped a good defensive winger but retained the poorer one, giving Wigan a two try start? Or the same Potter who changed our lineup three times in the playoffs, one time just to facilitate a crocked player he was happy to bring back too early? If you want someone who is utterly clueless in terms of his lineups, interchanges and tactics (except when playing Warrington), you'll be happy with Potter.

However, he will integrate your youth into the first team. He can do that.

If Potter can get us to second in the table and to the grand final despite injuries to key players, only to lose by 12 points, I'll be happy with that next year!

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:09 am  

Mission wrote:

If Potter can get us to second in the table and to the grand final despite injuries to key players, only to lose by 12 points, I'll be happy with that next year!

Indeed. I wonder what miracle Potter was meant to perform to overcome a superb Wigan side with Saints missing both chief playmakers.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:56 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Hmm. This is the same Potter who played a 20 year old at centre in a Grand Final when he had never previously played centre, it was his first Grand Final and he had been out of commission for three weeks? Or the same Potter who dropped a good defensive winger but retained the poorer one, giving Wigan a two try start? Or the same Potter who changed our lineup three times in the playoffs, one time just to facilitate a crocked player he was happy to bring back too early? If you want someone who is utterly clueless in terms of his lineups, interchanges and tactics (except when playing Warrington), you'll be happy with Potter.

However, he will integrate your youth into the first team. He can do that.

It wouldn't matter if you had Wallace Arnold or Wayne Bennett as coach, you'd still choke.

St Helens, official Super League chokers.

Perhaps you should hire Brian Smith.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:59 pm  

Mission wrote:

If Potter can get us to second in the table and to the grand final despite injuries to key players, only to lose by 12 points, I'll be happy with that next year!

Great. You will have made progress. He did the same kind of thing with the Dragons.

However, he is not a good coach of an already successful team. He has dismantled us and put us back together all wrong. You can think what you like about getting to second and all that (we nicked it by 2 points, remember, in the dying seconds of our very last match of the season), but he's ruined us in the process. You may like the barge up the middle boring style of rugby without being able to defend for peanuts, but Saints fans don't. We'd rather miss the Grand Final completely next year and just enjoy a season of entertaining rugby. God knows we've been starved of it the last two years.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:00 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

We'd rather miss the Grand Final completely next year and just enjoy a season of entertaining rugby. God knows we've been starved of it the last two years.

Well we must come from different planets then, because I think winning trophies is marginally more important than good rugby.

Re: Is the Pryce right? : Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:07 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Great. You will have made progress. He did the same kind of thing with the Dragons.

However, he is not a good coach of an already successful team. .

On what basis.

The last 4 years tells me otherwise.

Unless you factor in the Jon Wilkin show pony mid season interruption cup. Which none of us actually care about BTW