Sadly it's not just defence.Our attack play is woeful and only for penalties we struggle to get anywhere near the opponents line.

Are you seriously wanting Simmo out, On what basis? Do you have to win 100% of your games? This is planet Earth FCS. To be honest with you, I think you may have lost a little ground but you will get it back come June - July in the sunshine. Look at Salford for a comparison they have made massive progress this season butthere are no outright front runners in the first 5 weeks chill and lick your wounds

Its an internet forum, 2hrs after a close match that we seamed to bomb, surely you don't expect anything less.

I think it's too early in the season to write off Royce Simmons. But what I do want to know is if he has the guts to drop under performing players because he needs to. He also needs to kick backsides and not be softly softly. We are too soft. We have no props worthy of the name and our halves are confused.

Surely the question "Is Simmons the right man?" needs to be considered in the context "who else would come in".



If he's better than what's available then he's the right man, if he's not then he's not.



Who would come in? Noble? Justin Morgan? Jon Sharp? Long?

I can't understand why hes rotating early, he says Hudds and Wire did it last season.... yeah a fat load of good that did to them. He should be coming up with his own ideas rather than using failed methods from coaches the previous season who won nout! But I do like Royce and i think he will turn it round, but for me it's the team on the pitch the fault has to lie with. Foster being the major factor tonight he was poor, and I agree with the LMS attempted tackle which was a crap attempt. Plus we all know what referees do, it worried me getting so many penalties in the 1st half, 9 times out of 10 it gets evened up, which it did, and unfortunatly for us it didn't work out. Defence pathetic. Did he bother with defence this week?

I said it last year he wasn't up to the job so it's no knee jerk reaction from me before all the Saints fans that see thru red v glasses chip in.



My concerns are as follows :



Tactics - the guy has none, I wonder what we've done in pre season as he's not brought in anything new and gets out thought by smart coaches.



Substitutions - I just can't work out this back on the bench that plays ten mins if he lucky. He takes players off with no thought. Today he brought laffranchci back on only 2 mins after halftime! The players just had 15 mins rest so why take someone off after 2 mins? It's waste of sub.



Rotation - IMO it's unreal! He moaned last year he can't play the sane team weeks on the bounce and now he's resting wingers! WTF was resting makinson last week all about? He's 20, fit as a fiddle and one of our best players!



Recruitment - we lose jammer who IMO is the best prop in the world and he replaces him with a 31 year old backrow who's a stranger to the prop postion. He had to replace him with the best prop he could get his hands on, not a old mate of his that ain't played prop. We lose eastmond and replace him with a world cup winning kiwi international FULLBACK who's hardly played halfback for past 10 years!



Defence - worst I've seen for long long time . Simple!



Attack - same old crap move which is totally predictable. If the players don't pull off the cuff rugby we don't score.



Motivation - for me this is the big one, he can't get us up for games, the players don't react to him and for me that's the bullet.



I like Royce as a guy and I know for fact he gives his all and puts every ounce off effort in to the job but he's not good enough. Let's get this idiot out before he ruins the club for years to come.

You guys are Spoilt

The reaction from some of our fans at times is embarrasing.



Yes there certainly are things wrong with the level of performance that do need to be sorted from the last two games but the overeaction at times to a defeat is unreal.

We are all over the place mate, the defence is shocking, the attack is off the cuff rugby.



We look like a poor coached team and I'm wiling to put my neck on the line to say hudds will put 30+ on us and Wigan and Warrington will score 50+



It's totally awful and this guys recruitment is shocking.

I'm not disagreeing with you that there are problems but calling for for some people to be calling for the sack after two games is a bit OTT.

The fact that we have been poor in every game this season inc Widnes in friendly. Holding healthy leads, losing them, p1ss poor tactics with the same shower of s h 1 t getting the games. Drop Foster, hes pants. Wello is past it lets be honest. Our signings are hardly exciting. I know teams need to gel but lets get real, after this seasons showing so far we look like we are going to have another trophyless season. I am going to Hudds and hope for a massive defensive improvement..I just can't see it! I hope I am wrong though.