mwindass wrote:
Difference is those Saints teams are a just a smidge better than Hulls. Those Saints teams were/are littered with internationals.
For me, Our problems run deeper than the coach. Too much player power. The senior players have downed tools under 3 coaches now.
It wasn’t a team of internationals when Cunningham was here. Our 2017 squad only had 3 non fed players to start the year, in Ryan Morgan (the new Jamie Lyon according to KC) Luke Douglas and Dom Peyroux. We had an older generation (Lomax, Makinson, Wilkin, Roby, LMS) who were mostly considered done, and associated with the “5 in a row” legacy of failure, the new generation had promised so much in 2014 but seemingly petered out by 2016, with Swift, Richards (the best of the bunch according to our fans) Percival and Thompson all faltering the previous year. Add in the luminaries Matty Smith, Tommy Lee and Jack Owens, it was
highly expected that when Holbrook came in that there was going to be a Warrington style clear out needed to get them back to be competitive. That isn’t what transpired (thankfully) but we certainly weren’t seen as in a good position prior to Holbrook joining.
Alternately, we had 0 players in the 2016 dream team.