You sound like my Dad! He still says that and he's 75 now!

What's up Pete? You drunk? You're agreeing with me! Aren't you supposed to be laughing at me like other people?


TP pulled up with a leg injury so perhaps it was late on today. It would have been less wasteful of a bench space and more productive generally to shift Meli into the centre and put Makinson on the wing. We could have had a field day with him on the edge given the amount of space Warrington gave us.

brace yourself,i agree with you.

I even had that thought during the Leeds game last week. I could picture everyone up celebrating but saintsfan sat there unhappy.

Royce has gone, life goes on!!!

I am drunk but that's nothing new.

I'm not laughing at you, I find something's you say funny, bitter crazy but I do respect this is a open forum and people share different opinions.

Also, I know you are passionate (sp) about saints and deep down your truly great person that I could talk to face to face about Royce Simmons all night and never get bored.

Any chance of that date yet?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that date!

It stopped being about Royce per se before the match against Leeds. I lost respect for some of our senior players and I'm finding it difficult to support them.

So I'd probably end up talking about the wonders of the English language or something, and drive you to drink that way instead.

So you'd try and get me drunk? Sounds good! When we going?






Ps I don't think I'd be great on a discussion about the English language

And an English Language degree counts for very similar in the real world.



You should take a step back and read some of your posts at some point. You'll have a right good laugh.

Do the results and manner of play now not suggest that some of those senior players were on to something ? Its a fine line to tread between percentage football and the completion rate scenario that we have seen in recent years to the offloading flair attack we have seen in recent games and it seems that line wasnt one that Royce could tread.

There were inherent problems with Royce this year and that has been covered to death,even if the senoir players had of stepped up we lacked a gameplan,the halves to carry it out and a coherent team effort and that particular buck has to stop at the door of the coach.

I don't have an English Language degree though.


You'd have to explain the humour to me though as I'm not as bright as you.

Well whatever title your poem analysing comes under.



That's quite evident.

When we going out then?

I can talk Royce all night!

Whether or not they were is totally irrelevant. They are paid professionals and fans turn up to support them. They are paid also to work for their boss, which on a day to day basis is the coach. James Roby is the best example of a true professional: he works his butt off in every match no matter who is the coach, and he has now had three or four, I can't remember exactly when his debut was. He's the only senior player who didn't come new to the side this year who I have any respect left for. The rest didn't deserve their pay cheque for the first seven games.

I don't include the young guys in this (Wheeler is still a young guy to me and he has been outstanding all season).

I'm getting nowhere with saintsfan so I'm off for a wee and then bed.

post of the decade!

Pathetic. And before you ask I have a Law degree from Leeds University.

Anyway, Josh Jones.....

Surely playing Josh Jones worked. Or was it my imagination that the score was 20-0 at one point.

How it can be called a risk that did not pay off is beyond my limited understanding. Another great win from the texts I've got and these are from people who are not keyboard warriors or people who wanted Royce out.

I'll go with the opinion that it was another great win rather than this feeble battle of some post-Royce justification blame project.

Seemed that there was always a problem with Wheeler and Jones was always going to play.

For me it was a great decision to play him (as the risk paid off really) he did go for Hodgson's dummy, but they had a man over so it's understandable for him to have taken it so easily - although I have seen experienced players take them before!

To take him off when they did was brilliant coaching, it wasn't rectifying a mistake (as alluded to above

) but it was reacting to what was happening at the time in a period of Warrington dominance.

SaintsFan: The players didnt agree with Royce's style of play and monotonous out the back predictive style of play he enforced. I have it on good authority senior players asked for more licence to play in a less structured way and one senior player in particular shot down. LMS made reference on interview last night to enjoying rugby again & been given the scope to play and the squad have responded. We were modelled on West Tigers style of play which didnt suit us & was becoming predictable...we never looked like scoring at times.
Longy was critical & voice his opinions just before the sacking...and thank god, nice bloke but Royce was turning the likes of Gaskell & Lomax into one trick robots.
Criticise the players all you like but that clowns pig headedness cost him hid job, the change of style has brought a change in attitude but in any job you need to be enjoying it. I know i was bored senseless at times this year.

I've been saying this for long time but nobody would listen because the grand Final appearance papered over the cracks.

So that gives the players licence to refuse to perform? You are a supporter of player power? I'm not. What's going to happen when our next coach comes in - assuming we can find one who wants to join a club that sacks their coaching staff after seven games (two of which they won) - and he decides to make changes? Because that will happen. It always does.