The best British and the best antipodean realistic candidates IMO.

If we could get them both I would be very happy.

I'd be ecstatic. But surely that is extremely unlikely?

I think it is unlikely we will get both, although if it did happen I would be thrilled.


I'd ve very happy with Potter though. Saints play some of the best rugby in the competition, Potter has a good record at both Catalans and Saints, he's proved he can coach a team to finals and he's also not afraid to blood youngsters.


Whilst he may not have brought all these Saints youngsters into their academy, he certainly seems to know how and when to blood them and they seem to progress fast under him.

I wouldn't be unhappy with McDermott, but Potter would be a much better appointment imo.

Unfortunately, I fear you are probably right.

See Connor is asking folk on Twitter which one they want?

I vote coalition!

Haven't Saints always played some of the best rugby in the comp? Not sure Potter can be credited with over and above the abilities of the players.

In saying that, Brian Potter would be a better choice than John Kear. Cannot abide the bloke as a coach, commentator or as a finger mouse puppet.

Thats fair comment, but as a coach, Potter has proved more than McDermott atm.

Neither we need to look to the NRL imo.

Murphy suggests via Twitter that we'll know within a week. He also says it is very close.

I'm firmly in the Mick Potter camp atm.

It's neither. I was drinking with duffers and hoody in the Craven heifer last night.

I won't say outright who it is but I'll give you a clue. His first name starts with an L and his second name starts with a St.

That has absolutely no bearing on whether he'll be a good head coach or not what so ever. That's the job of the development coach or what ever they call them these days. Every club in the SUper league know with the exception of that soul less franchise in Wrexham has it's own academy churning out quality players that are filling up their own squads. My friend used to work for harlequins and she says it's the culture within the organisation as a whole from board level down. Brian McDermott has undoubtedly put his heart and a lot of work into it but so has Steve Macnamara at Bradford. I think the club need to appoint the man that will get the best out of the first team squad as a priority over everything else as if the current slump (and I'm talking about the last five years and I'm not holding Macnamara responsible for that) continues there'll be only us lot on here rattling around the Odsal Bowl by the end of next season. In that respect we need the coach to have been at winning clubs from a marketing point of view or season ticket sales could tumble.

That's the priority and the man to do it will be revealed this week.

Brian Potter will be brilliant, the catering will pick up and we'll bring in some top talent. Him and Jerry St Clair would be my dream team.

I had to google those two to find out who the hell they are...



Very bad form, sir!

I would be happy with Potter. Why would he leave Saints though?

He's already leaving Saints.

He wanted an NRL job apparently, but there are none available.

Oh I see!

and thats the one problem with us appointing him. how commited will he be should a NRL post become available? last thing we need is to through this disruption again a year or so down the road. Thats why a potter/mcdermott team would make good sense. Potter to kickstart things and help mcdermott out then mcdermott stepping into main role without disruption when potter goes. Doubt club can make it work financially though

Sign him on a 2 or 3 year deal.

That would show he's commited enough not to jump to the NRL next season.

I'd love to see Potter & McDermott combined but I doubt there's much chance of that happening.

dont think we'd be able to hold him to a contract if he wanted out enough. even if we could legally, he could just put out youth team a few weeks running until board are forced to sack him.

Only one option.

Potter head coach, McDermott assistant with Michael Maguire as defence coach and Tony Smith attack coach.

Make it happen Hood.

Add in Robbie Paul as head of PR and Jimmy Lowes as Head of Crowd control and we're done and dusted. Can't think of any reson not to have that set up...

Don't forget Solomona for head of catering.

I can, a total lack of ambition.

Potter has done a great job at saints this year, he has the hardest job than any other saints coach in the super league era. We lost some massive names over the last 4yrs and potter took over the weakest saints squad in super league era and took us to old trafford last year, 2nd place finish in super league, semi final of challenge cup last year.

This year potter has had massive injuries and yet still lie joint 2nd in the league and in semis of the challenge cup. The likes of dan anderson didn't even pick vin anderson and nick fozzard in our 17 man squad for 2 finals so you can see the strength in depth the previous coaches had. This year potter has had likes of foster, lomax, wheeler, eastmond, dixon, ashurst and other unknown players playing every single week but still has us up there competeing for all the cups.

He is a good coach.

It's Lee St hillaire the club have called a press conference in the Holmewood Bound tomorrow at 11.00 were it will be made public.

If true then this is a BIG statement about the financial situation at the club! They have obviously seen the RLs process that allowed them to spin the appointment of Macca (best applicant for the job) and followed suit... Run a competition but without the applicants knowing that the real decider will be the size of the wage packet they expect.