Fitness is a massive issue, though he’s a cracking player and is doing well I think Zak Hardaker is a stone overweight.

Under Wane there was no such thing as an offload, a chip over the top and it was rugby by numbers. It was like Soviet style dull grey rugby.

To be honest I've heard from someone close to the squad how much the players like his ideas and they think he can take us to the next level. Now obviously that hasn't materialised yet, but you cant expect miracles with the injuries we have had this season. Saints have used 23 players all season, how many have we? Id guess closer to 40. How can we expect any continuity changing tons of changes each week.



That being said, I dont think a full strength this side would be top 4 so I am willing to give him time to get it right. I would definitely give him the whole of this season and next but maybe Lenagan will opt for change. Who knows.

I think it's closer to thirty but got told today that there maybe two or three more on Monday.

With out debating any of your points. I ask you one question, will you be renewing your ticket after the change of coach now boting waney has gone???

Are your friends happier now??????

To be honest, the players need some personal pride in there performance. Plenty players not doing it, not kids either%

Strange, I saw plenty of them.

Maybe someone needs to do a root cause analysis of this.



Are we unlucky with injuries, are our training methods causing injuries, or are we signing and re-signing crocks?

How would you prove what is correct? Manfredi has now had 4 x ACL's, so that would lean towards being injury prone, but what if he moves to someone else and stays injury free. Would that make it bad luck or our training?



Its impossible to know and I am glad we stuck by him. I think we will again if Im honest, hes a top player and Adrian Lam did his ACL 3 times and he turned out ok.

Presumably they didn't turn up yesterday, so they're each £25 happier than me.

Adrian Lam may not be the right person for us at this moment in time but I really feel sorry for him. His year long work experience has become a nightmare. We were always going to struggle this season because of our loss of some of the most talented players in the game. We have others who have been talking about retirement for years but are still going round. Add to that the yearly injury crisis and a fair number of journeyman squad members who are being over used. This time we cannot go out and buy in a Fielding to make things better.

Sadly our whole squad needs a shake up. We are getting bullied in the middle. Yesterday we won few collisions and looked pedestrian. I was once fond of the theory that we were running with small forwards because the number of interchanges was going down but for years now we have been lightweight. In previous years we covered that with tenacity and some creativity but we now have neither. It says a lot that Isa is probably the first name on our team sheet. Sadly we cannot even encourage some of the players to take up more lucrative offers from other clubs because the ones that need to move on will not get a better offer.

At the moment when I think about which forwards I would like to keep long term I cannot produce a very long list. We are over reliant on youngsters who are generally doing fine but who really should not be permanently punch drunk.