Quote ="SaintsFan"Simmons began the season rotating players, something that people on here (except me) criticised, and he was open in saying that he was rotating players, resting them if they picked up minor knocks. Tony Smith rotated his players and look where Warrington is now.
Simmons wasn't given the chance to make a decision on Hohaia and Gaskell as he was sacked after 7 matches. So you have no idea what would have happened or who he would have ended up playing. But one thing is for sure, he didn't kick Gaskell into the oblivion of the u20s. He did, however, say in public that he wanted to teach the young players how to deal with adversity, which suggests to me that he was actively coaching them rather than taking the easy option as Rush has done and pretty much ignoring them.'"
Simmons rotation was a strange one IMO, he said he wanted to keep players fresh but would often not use one of his players on the bench or play them for last 2 mins.
He was only rotating our wingers which was another strange one, the likes of makinson, Meli, wheeler and Ade was being rotated yet our forwards pretty much stayed the same.
