great turn out from your fans today,

not a lot went well for Saints today but im sure you'll bounce back. Big Mose seemed to enjoy his rapport with the East stand, he tackled and smashed everything that moved but didn't seem interested in running the ball in very often though.

Defence is attitude. Nobody can make you tackle, you have to want to tackle.

The coach can take some blame motivation wise but where are these players self pride? They ain't got any, they couldn't care less.

When I played, I didn't want to miss tackles more for myself than anyone else, I wanted to know that I put my all in and if I do that it helps the team.

Every player who plays sport has to have pride in themselves abs I believe a lot of this squad have no self pride.

Was it Brown missing the tackles?

Was it Brown throwing interception passes?

Was it Brown not finding touch off a pen?

Was it Brown dropping the ball?

The players have to take majority of the blame today.

Tell me about it. It's easy to smash someone like Burns with 10 mins to go and the game home but where was that early on ?

Travis Burns fisted us today

Aye, defence is all about attitude - it was Anderson who said that, and INSTILLED that philosophy into his Saints team.

The team has to proportion some of the blame today agreed, particularly for the shrug of the shoulders and give up with 15 minutes to go (much in the same way they did vs Catalans) BUT motivation, effort, attitude was missing from minute 1 and THAT is down to the coaching team. Pride in the shirt comes from them (admittedly not for the home grown players) and it's completely absent, and has been spoken about time and again on here. I thought we'd turned a corner last week after the little spat but no.

The errors are the same week in week out. They aren't being addressed - also the coaches fault.

Why on earth did you think we'd turned the corner? You must have knew it wouldn't last long playing with aggression and attitude.

We will play well next week and you will think we turned the corner and we will back to our old selves in few weeks.

It wasn't the performance that tricked me into thinking a corner had been turned - it was the spat in the media room ... I'd almost been convinced Brown gave a damn

But once again, the players show how much Brown cares

Why always blame the coach? Why sack the coach?

Today we lost because we can't tackle. Defence is a fundamental skill that all pro players should be able to do to a certain standard. We have lots of players that can't/won't tackle. Brown can't train then like 6 year olds practicing tackling.

It's time cut the slackers. Instead of talking about it, he needs to do it.

a) I've not said sack the coach, only sack him if there's someone better available and I'm not sure there is at the moment.

b) if it was week in, week out tackling like u9s then yes, the players aren't good enough. But if we tackled like that last week we'd of been beaten by triple figures. The players can do it, but just don't as regularly as they should (which is every week) - that is attitude, that is the coach. The coach doesn't care - we've all agreed on that on here and the result is results like today - as I said elsewhere 24-10 was a frustrating yet begrudgingly tolerable result - the 3 tries in the last 10 minutes was nothing more than apathy and that comes from the coach.

So your basically saying the players have no self pride?

Do you not think that spat in the media and bagging a ref would have a negative effect on how refs will officiate our games?

First thing I thought was the refs will crucify us now.

So the coach only motivates the players? They don't need to motivate themselves? They are paid professional rugby players, they should be motivated every single week regardless of a coach being there or not. They should be committed also, it's their job.

Players shouldn't need to be motivated or asked to be committed as that should be a given. I can accept poor performance, lack of ability but I can't accept players not being committed as we the paying public pay their wages.

The days of Alex Murphy throwing cups of tea about and insulting players in order to fire them up are well gone.

Is it? We all go on about how Wane gets Wigan nashing at the teeth week in week out. No player plays to lose, and are motivated to win, but that's not enough. All players (even today) put their body on the line, and are committed to the cause, but that fire needs to come as a team.

What I find strange is how the likes of Wellens and Cunningham are involved in the coaching team yet either aren't allowed or failing to inspire the players around them

The players have to have self motivation. If they don't, they should retire now.

There's a difference between motivation and fire in the belly/ knashing the teeth/ whatever cliche you like.

If the players are going out with no motivation to win, I agree they should give up now. But that's not the issue - it's only after the game is gone that the apathy sets in...

Paid rugby players shouldn't need motivating. No player that has pride in his performance should lack commitment and motivation.

Like Brown said last week, if we don't back it up next week then it means nothing and as I thought, we didn't back it up.

Exactly, most of the blame has got to go onto the players, Brown challenged them to back up from last week and they have failed and surrendered similar to Catalans the week before.
We will beat Bradford next week, but I,m expecting that we might give London there first win of the season like we did last season or was the year before.
There is a lot of apathy in our games, playing out a penalty, forming a scrum, kicking out from the post is very slow and wasting time taking intensity out of a game is what annoys me the most.

No chance of losing to Laaaandon. They're so poor they'd struggle in the Championship. They'll run riot over Bradford too. If Super League was a goldfish, Bradford and London would be that long trail of dangly crap that sticks to it's ringpiece.

Browns post match comments: www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... rovers-job Quote Saints coach Nathan Brown was a deflated man after seeing his side crumble by conceding 26 unanswered points in the second half. "It was a very disappointing day," Brown said. "The only positive was Mase Masoe and Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook played well. "We can't brush this one under the carpet. "We handed them two interception tries, but Hull KR's league position is false to me. "They've had their share of injuries and they are getting players back. That helps Travis Burns and Greg Eden get in the game." '"

Browns post match comments: www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... rovers-job Quote Saints coach Nathan Brown was a deflated man after seeing his side crumble by conceding 26 unanswered points in the second half. "It was a very disappointing day," Brown said. "The only positive was Mase Masoe and Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook played well. "We can't brush this one under the carpet. "We handed them two interception tries, but Hull KR's league position is false to me. "They've had their share of injuries and they are getting players back. That helps Travis Burns and Greg Eden get in the game." '"

We've had exactly the same problems with motivation all year albeit on a larger and more damning scale, let's not forget you are heading the league to start with!!

I understand both MagicSuperBeetle's and St Pete's points regarding motivation from an external source (being the coach) and intrinsic (natural player motivation), it's quite simple but you have to have a good mix of both with the majority coming from the coach.

We've simply had a negative, passionless approach from Sandercock and to me his persona seems to match that of Brown, too careful, methodical but lacking real bite and a big contrast to that of Shaun Wane for example. It's all about player management too and obviously you're going to get the best results dealing with individuals needs as well as the team as a whole.

Going to say a real winning mentality stems from the coach, you've got extreme examples where a team (Leeds for example) have a set of players who have success ingrained in them but that's down to numerous coaches down the years drumming that into a close knit bunch.

In your example, Brown's always struck me as a guy who will only get you so far, that's not to say he won't be entirely successful to some, I would just predict you'll never win a major trophy with him in charge, he's still a better version of Craig Sandercock however.

Finally, the way Super League's set it's truly not right how teams almost go as far as 'choosing' to go through bad spells of form to provide a backs against the wall and the only way is up attitude for when it really matters i.e the end of season play-offs! It's not really fair on the fans who pay good money but that's the way the league is set up...a first past the post wins the league would change this mentality...

I'd really worry if you threw out a performance like this against Wigan or a Leeds or even a challenging for honours Hull KR side (wishful thinking but if anyone knows the history of RL they'd know we should be up there!!).

Good luck for the rest of the season.

I'm in utter shock we are top of the league. It shows that the standard is pretty poor these days.

Can't disagree with that, it's a point everyone agrees on, compare the quality to even 10 years ago and it's changed. Lightyears doesn't go far enough from the distance that we're away from the NRL.

I was listening on the radio today and was in shock as it was happening...However, on reflection it shouldn't be that shocking. How many times have we done this so far this season? It's becoming painful to watch us succumb to another team that we should be beating and beaten by such a margin. I've been embarrassed of this team far too often this season.

It's tiresome and if the players can't be d to put a shift in every week, then why should I be d?

What on earth is everyone else doing? How can we be top of the league. I can't get my head around that at all.

Wish I could disagree. I look at our present team and wonder how many would have been good enough to get into the Saints team of 99/2000/2002 & 2006...

None

a comment made on the radio was that the reason the results this year have been less predictable is not that the mid placed teams are getting better, but that the top teams are getting worse. and its very true.

Saints of 96 and 2005-7 would walk this league
Bradford of 2000 ish would walk this league
Wigan of 94-5 would walk this league.

in 2005 we could sign Jamie Lyon and had Darren Albert, 2 years later we signed Matt Gidley.
a year or so later Wigan had trent barratt and Leeds signed buderus
quality, world class signings.

9 years later or less NRL averagely good Luke Walsh is described as a superstar (Longy at 28 was far better)
Wigan's amazing signing was a player who retired before signing for them. Leeds' best player is 36 and they're second best 34