Not sure he wants it extended. He was all set to return to Aus with the family after the Dragons.

The opportunity was one he couldn't really say no to so decided to give it a go IIRC.

Did it? When you actually look how we went through the season, Potter was doing a great job until we starting copping injuries:

Round 6 - Beat Leeds Rhinos 26-18.
Round 7 - Hammer Wakefield 42-18.

Form looks OK here

Round 8 - beat Wigan 19-12
Round 9 - Saints bounce Hull FC 44-22

Still looking OK

Round 10 - 68-22 at Castleford
Round 11 - second defeat of the season as Bradford come back to win 34-30

Not a great result, but scoring points

Round 12 - awful result at Millenium Magic
Round 13 - beat Catalans Dragons 32-28 to move back to the top of the table
Round 14 - beat Harlequins 22-12
Round 15 - hammer Hull FC, winning 30-6
Round 16 - thrash Castleford 50 points to 10

Still going strong

Round 17 - set a new record of 16 consecutive, cantering to a 44-18 success over Bradford
Round 18 - nil the Crusaders - 30-0 win

Great stuff

Round 19 - Terrible result at Salford - 20-10 loss. Starting to struggle with injuries now. Missing KC, Leon Pryce and Jon Wilkin (maybe more?) and Sean Long replaced in the second half having succumbed to a facial injury

Round 20 - bounce back with a weakened team winning 40-26 at Warrington
Round 21 - Weakened team again - outscored Wakefield 5 tries to four but Wello has a shocker with the boot - lose 22-20

Round 22 - bounce back 44-24 win at Harlequins to take us back two points clear at the top of the table
Round 23 - beat Wigan again, 10-6 victory

Round 24 - lose 26-10 at Hull KR. No KC or Long and understudy Eastmond also injured - young Jamie Ellis at 7

Round 25 - scrape past Huddersfield 12 points to 10. Awful performance - but still top of the table. Ashurst, Emmitt, Lomax in to cover injuries.

Round 26 - good performance, edged out by Leeds 18-10 in a brilliant game
Round 27 - last game of the season meaning nothing - beaten by Catalans

Then the play-offs where we played some extremely gutsy stuff.

I think there is a fair bit of history re-writing for last season - we were playing well until we copped a lot of injuries. We were knocked badly out of our stride and lost top spot in the end, but I think the criticism aimed at Potter was well OTT, as it was after the Hull game.

There you go. I disagree with you. End of.

As I say, I no longer care. We're playing much more like our old selves now and looking happy as a team with it. That's all I care about.

I think the slow PTB last year had a big impact on our style of play. Saints more than any other team had invested in a set up that relied on fast PTB, our personnel, our training, everything. So we were bound to be hit hardest. It took everyone all year to come up with something new.

Also, I think Longy was jus bored. He'd done it all and doing it all again with Saints just bored him. Well that's how it looked from the outside anyway.

Sean Long was a major problem for us last year being injured, out of form, and possibly throwing a strop after not being offered a contract.

We were underdone against Hull after not having a pre season game, lost a winger and a centre within the first 20 minutes and ended up with forwards playing in the outside backs. We've been getting better with Eastmond and Pryce learning each others game and steadily improving and we've now got a better passing game from scrum half and a threat with ball in hand which we didn't have last year.