I do wonder how we can have so much youth in the backline but no pace. I just don't understand it.

The funny thing (or not) is,under Murphy even when Saints ran out of ideas we could still go 90 metres for a try in the blink of an eye because we always had relatively fast three quarters.Can't remember the last time we've gone full length for a try in the last 5 years.
The game has changed a helluva lot since then with better defences etc but I think Robys 80 metre interception the other week is the longest in recent times and that just about sums it up our lack of pace to go with few attacking ideas.

I know young Wigan players playing in the Wigan first team now who rate Rush highly after dealing with him in various England performance camps etc at junior level so if outside players think that he cant be all bad. Also hasnt he won every game, bar the games against Wigan, since he took over? If the players simply arent good enough then there isnt a great deal that Rush can do.

Agree with most of the above, its as though we,ve gone out of our way to make everything we do have a certain amount of instability.
All of our back line are inconsistent, we still don,t have a team leader, set plays to test a defence, worse of all our mental toughness is worse than some of the saints teams in the 80's.

Well, if you call most of one season at assistant level a lot then yes he has. In my view, he has naff all experience at this level. He's actually got less experience at this level now than Powell at Broncos.


Only this season and only occasionally.


But we are miles away from Wigan this season, unlike last, and he never changes anything. There is no adaptation, of players or tactics or anything.


You have forgotten the Good Friday beating then? I don't think anyone with half a brain would be talking about how good we are after the showing against Wigan on GF. They have soundly beaten us three times now with the last session just being utterly ridiculous and incredibly embarrassing.

You have lost all three to Wigan but have belted everyone else since Rush and KC took over.
You hammered Leeds home and away, soundly beat Wire at their place and I do think you'll get the better of Hull FC at the weekend.
You have Catalans away which will be difficult, Hudds at home which shouldn't followed by Wire at home. Wigan again away last game of the season.
The rest of the clubs you play in the rest of the season you should beat very well indeed.
You may well be worried about Rushy & KC but I think you should be more worried about Nathan Brown with his "I'm going home, no I'm staying" routine.
If Hudds were poor v Wigan then they were embarrasing against Salford.