Well I've seen both him and Sykes play fullback and imo Sykes is better. Thats what I'm basing it on. My view is objective because I'm a Saints fan and actually dont really care if Bradford win or lose , I'm just saying it as I see it.

Seen him play plenty of times to form an opinion on him.

You certianly have the monk on

Still does not make us any the wiser about why you have formed that opinion though?

When ever I see him play he makes TOO many school boy errors and just stands there flapping his arms about. Half of time he don't have a clue what to do.

what you guys seem to forget is that if/when Macca goes whoeve rcomes in is still going to have the same bunch of average,mistake making players to work with - doesn't that bother you at all or is it all Macca's fault?

I think we just want improvement more than anything. So far, we seem to be going downhill with McNamara at the helm which would suggest something is going wrong with the coaching.

If a new coach comes in and things improve, then I guess it shows that the coaching going on at the club was poor.

True, but if a new coach doesn't improve things then we'll have just created instability at a time when the club needs it most.

Which is why I don't think the club will make any decisions in haste. I was pretty wound up earlier and would gladly have seen McNamara walk at about 4pm today. Whilst I think I have seen enough to conclude we almost certainly need a change, we need to make the next coach 100% the right one for the club.

You don't seem to be defending him, you just seem to be looking for aswers. Maybe if you don't agree you should put your points across as to why?

FWIW from what i've seen of him he's too lightweight and I don't think i've ever seen him win the collision, his brainfarts (although funny for any non-Bulls) are sometimes so bad they border on the hard to believe and his ill discipline and petulance make him pretty unlikeable from my point of view.

That's why i've formed my opinion.

He doesn't create instability because we can't be relegated. What it does do is bring in somebody new with two thirds of a season left to judge what is required for next year. Now we are out of the cup this year is a write off.

When he started he looked a decent fullback. Since then i've found him highly average. He's fairly solid but he never does anything special.

Actually his occasional screw ups are usually pretty special.

Today's was just a joke. Even if he got the pass away there was two men around Nero. It just wasn't worth it.

Even at the low level i play the coach would murder the fullback whether it came off or not.

Mcnarama looked like a man lost today in his interview. Just can't see the club getting rid of him due to the state the club is in.

Roll on friday 10pm quickly.

I disagree I think Platt realised that we wouldn't be able to keep Catalans out from if we had to drop out.

The drop out was worth a better bet than that stupid attempt at an offload. Basically gave them a try next to the sticks as well.

Platt should be done under the trades description act....no way is he a professional rugby league player!

At Cas Platt was outstanding.

He's clearly made some really bad in-game decisons during his Bulls tenure - however - in my opinion he will turn it back around and when he does, you will have one of the best broken field runners in the league.

I'm just amazed by the people on here who don't see Platt every game and are jumping all over him for 1 mistake. The only thing Platt lacks is composure. He's been improving these last few weeks and I'm hoping that he can continue to improve

I don't need to put any points across - its not me making the assertions about him, so I don't have anything to explain.

And anyway, I'm doing neither of the things you suggest. I just get hacked off when folk come out with glib comments - either way - without backing them up. Platt has been the club fans' scapegoat for some time, and as with any scapegoat its helpful to examine whether or not the vitriol directed against him is actually justified by the facts. This is especially important where people emphasise high-profile mistakes - and surely no-one could deny Platt knows how to make those - but don't necessarily spend as much time emphasising what went right. So, when you get supporters - especially from other clubs - making statements that (e.g.) he is the worst FB in the competition, I'm just curious as to how they have formed that objective and balanced judgment?

Or, curious to see whether some people are picking on, or winding us up over, an easy target without being able to back it up when challenged.

And FWIW I see in Platt the potential to be an excellent FB - as many of us did after his first few games - but he certainly does not help himself sometimes.

And, FWIW, I fail to see how having the fans on your back is any good for a player's confidence, especially when its bloody obvious that confidence is a problem across the whole team right now.

You are doing what we did in 2006, looking good in patches but then blowing good leads, and a lot of it seemed to be down to fitness. We got a new conditioner at the end of the season and it never happened again. A fit side wouldn't have fallen off tackles like you did, and Perpignan is the one place that will expose your lack of fitness due to the speed of the pitch and the weather.

It was your coach's game plan that put you 26-0 up, and kept you looking dangerous down the edges whenever you got the ball. It was your side's failure to stop the Dragons momentum that cost you the game, and that is down to fitness.

Platt can be a very effective full back, but his howlers do tend to be big ones, but I reckon Dragons would have scored from the drop-out even if he had held onto the ball. They had a relentless look about them.

Platt's howler was awful but plenty of other players made missed tackles that led directly to tries. Where is the flak for the likes of Newton, Deacon, Langley and Jeffries who all made glaring errors?

Platt is the fallguy at the moment, he's unlucky that as fullback his errors are always more high profile. But it does show that if anything the fullback needs to make good decisions more often than anyone else and he's not doing that.

How do you work that one out?

True, we can't be relegated, but to say if a coach comes in and doesn't improve results (which was my original counter-point - someone may well come and improve us but it's by no means assured) and instability won't arise from that lack of improvement is just pure fantasy.

I could not have said better myself. If everyone lived up to Nero and Sykes and Burgess early on we would not have lost

McNamara lives in Hull, and Platt in Greater Manchester.

We'd need two taxis otherwise it would get expensive.

Not necessarily.

McNamara's taxi would fall apart in the second half of the journey, and Platt's would go straight past him.