Just seen it on Sky Sports that Brown has been released early from Huddersfield. No surprise really!

He will be straight over to saints then I presume. At least we won't have to listen to rush the miserable bugger!

Rush must have one of the most boring and uninspiring voices in professional sport!

As the BBC article says they wee top of the league when he announced he was joining Saints next season and now they have lost 8 out of 10 games since then and been knocked out of the cup. Wheels well and truly came off.

Lets hope he a similar effect on Saints!

Saints signed Brown when Huddersfield were doing well. Would they have signed him now? I doubt it.

Tony Smith can give him a run for his money !!!..............err, yea err no, err weeeelll err aaaaa err maaaybeee......

The fact they was top of the league when we signed him suggests that if has effected hudds.

I think they have lost 9 out off 11 since he confirmed he's coming to saints and top of the league.

I'm very happy he's coming, he's a very good coach and I'm certain we will be true contenders for trophies next year.

Brown quoted as saying that the players would not use his "plays, tactics" in the semi final, not what you need before their biggest game of the year. He has done some good things at the Giants but there must be something wrong when the team just stops performing mid season. I can see a stampede of players from the Giants

Must be crappy to be Hudds fan right now....

That could well be the case, although you can't always draw parallels between events and assume there's a link. Huddersfield's problems started after their defeat to Wigan but there isn't necessarily a connection there.

It probably can affect teams if it's announced their coach is leaving mid-season but it didn't affect Wigan when Maguire announced he would be going, so you can never really be certain unless someone from within the club sheds a bit of light on what has been going wrong.

I hope he does well. I always want Saints to be in the top 4.

He had to go following yesterdays post match comments - seems they have not been playing for him for quite a while now and i think they should of shown him the door as soon as he decided to join St.Helens.

Be interesting to see if he joins Saints immediatley, i think he could do with a break away.

I'm interested to see how Anderson gets on. I don't think I've ever heard him speak or get seriously animated, not that ranting makes you a good coach.... But its nice to see another englishmen given a chance

Not at all, quite uplifted by todays news, truth is Nathan Brown is a good, perhaps very good coach in terms of improving individual skills of players. He is also reputedly a nice fella. He is not a leader, he had similar player management issues at St George, so that is not a "Giants only" issue.

The truth is NB is a shortish term coach as far as his impact on teams go. His first couple of years at the Galpharm were generally positive, the last two have been very disappointing.

He fell out with Griffen, Raliegh and now O'Donnell. The Hodgson switch to Wire is rumoured to be down to differences with NB. All similar to his days at St George.

There is also a lot of spin on NB's comments about attacking structures, with only two real props on the books (3 if you count Patrick who is best more as an impact player than a grafter) playing a back (Kevin Brown) at 13 was an issue defensively. We regularly played with 3 hookers, sometimes 4.

You crushed our pack at the Galpharm and the rest of the league saw how to beat us. We simply had to pick another forward at 13 or we would have shipped 60+ to Wire, Cas put 52 past us!

I think NB will start like a house on fire at Saints and persist with the same tactics when sussed out by others, a close but no cigar season. Second season a bit of a drop, don't think he makes it to season 3.

He couldn't handle the St george dressing room or the Giants dressing room, how the hell will he handle the Saints squad? Remember they saw off their last coach.

So as a Giants fan I feel positive today, Nathan was good for a while but had long past his sell by date. Time to move on.

When Hodgson was being interviewed after the semi on Sunday, he made comment that hes still very good friends with Brown.

That's great

Have you conveniently forgot to give your opinion on the rest of the OPs post?

Good coach or not, he aint the most "stable" personality wise. Quite content to rip his side up in the media.

I based my post on fact and not idle gossip and hearsay. The fact the poster points out that Hodgson left because of brown is obviously wrong from Hodgson interview.

I won't comment on the rest of the post as its all based on idle gossip with no fact.

If you've got facts to back up the OP comments then I'm happy to pass my opinion on it.

Ok?

He would have gone after the defeat at Castleford when they had 50+ put past them surely if this last weekend had not been the semis.

No different to the last 25 for me



It was a matter of time really when this happened, he had to go in the end - the players had made it clear they wont be playing for him anymore.

Nice one, superb, thought it was only me who noticed it. Love the way he rambles on while looking at the floor, then when he’s done you think…..”What the **** was all that about?” Great stuff I love it!





Rock 'n' Roll.

Especially after you've just lost in a Semi Final.

You appear to have posted on the wrong thread old chap. You'll get the hang of it soon. Bless.

Sorry my mistake. I'll get the hang of it after the euphoria has worn off. Bliss

Oh i understand completely....!!!!!!!!

Success is a relatively new phenomenon to most of you there, possibly the only reason some of you are there. It will be WONDERFUL to see you fill wembley, shame you can fill your own place on a regular basis, but "hey ho". And yes, before you say it, i know it is "Your OWN place". Bless.

I'm done here.

2010 was the biggest crowd at a Rugby final at Wembley since 1988.


2010 Warrington Wolves 30–6 Leeds Rhinos Wembley Stadium, 85,217
2011 Wigan 28–18 Leeds Rhinos Wembley Stadium, 78,482