Also people forget about the passing of his father, that must have had a huge affect on him as well as the team.

As you say he's doing a superb job

And when you take into consideration all those distractions, i'd say he's worked miracles over these last few weeks.

This squad needs 'coaching'. That may sound daft but what I mean by it is that under DA we had such a great squad that 1-17 picked itself. We had the best team in SL bar none.

So to be top of the league (alright, it'll probably change tonight) with this current 1-17 (excl. injuries) is phenomenal!

Could be describing Eric Hughes, and the team he built that went on to super league glories. Needed mcrae to instill the winning mentality , Hughes must have done a good job!

He's doing a great job considering our injury list and I hope that he can tighten up that defence because it needs tightening if we are to challenge for a trophy this year.

This was also Nobles problem.

He wouldnt stick with the younger players even though they was playing better, and it was found out in the end as it took an injury to Tim Smith to give Sam Tomkins a real go in the team.

It seems both Madge and Simmons will play the youngsters if they are playing well - which is what us fans like to see.

He was tightening it. We were at a 17 point average until we lost five players over three days! It's difficult to defend to the best of our ability when our players change by the minute! I'm sure he will do just fine in defence once - or if - we manage to field a reasonably consistent team.

He should get a great reception at our place on Monday. No one will forget the marathon runs he did for us to raise cash at that time. That's how bad things were when he coached us so don't take that previous stint in our game as anything to go by, I think he's doing a great job at Saints under mitigating circumstances.