I've seen us win enough trophies to last me a lifetime. The thing that annoys me most is the way we play. We're really dull and it's like I'm watching another team at the moment, not a Saints team.

Mick Potter mentioned that word again "lateral" in our play. we were once known for intelligent play, complicated set plays, dummy runners etc. etc.
We definitley have come back to the pack with the absence of play makers, before it didn,t matter about lack of pace because we had so many attacking options. Our position in the play offs will be in the bottom end not based on this one game lost but on the basis on the direction we have been going since August last year.

amen to that, spot on

We need to have our dummy runners flatter with the first and second receiver. They aren't there providing the option for the passer, so the defence knows that it's going round the back to the second phase runner. We need more ruck plays, rather than just taking two or three drives on the opponents line before going to the spread play. It's predictable, and we're suffering for it. Not only this, our strength is our pack, so we have to use it to our advantage as well as we can.

This would be my team:
1. Lomax
2. Gardner
3. Gidley
4. Pryce
5. Meli
6. Wheeler
7. Eastmond
8. Graham
9. Cunningham
10. Fozzard
11. Soliola
12. Flannery
13. Wilkin

14. Moore/Roby
15. Clough
16. Fa'asavulu
17. Puletua

The three hookers would rotate throughout the season. Cunningham is probably the worst out of all three of our hookers right now, but in my team we would need leadership. Wellens' lack of pace is causing us to struggle, as our support play is faltering because of it. Our main pivots, scrum half, stand off and fullback, are inexperienced, but they're all talented players. Not only that, they have pace, something that causes hesistancy in the defence. Sides don't care about giving us the outside anymore, they know we aren't fast enough to take advantage.

That is very important for us to understand this season. Kyle is not a first grade experienced scrum half and we must remember that and remember that it is rare for any British scrum half to come through and have an organised gameplan. In fact, look at the players that have played for GB in this position and remember their early years e.g. Deacon, Sheridan, Tony Smith, Long, Burrow. Of those I can only think of Long who had something about him with the ball and it certainly wasn't his organising skills.

Kyle has a full season to get acclimatised to this competition and if he can stay free from injuries he'll do good because he's got too much about him for him not to.