www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2370 I know the team is shiyte and I know losing to rivals is terrible and I know the coach is as charismatic as a tax inspector but this is the future. Bigger and better teams rolling up at KR and us having a role to play in helping the Saints raise their game and potentially pull off a shock or two along the way.. Come on you Saints!

www.saintsrlfc.com/news/2370 I know the team is shiyte and I know losing to rivals is terrible and I know the coach is as charismatic as a tax inspector but this is the future. Bigger and better teams rolling up at KR and us having a role to play in helping the Saints raise their game and potentially pull off a shock or two along the way.. Come on you Saints!

Bet you don't get behind wellans but everyone else.

F*** off Potter.

I'm not putting the flags up in protest of your snide comments.

What snide comments? You hear coaches and players telling fans they have a role to play and asking them to get behind the team most weeks.

"Of course it will be tough, but I think the crowd are in for a really good game and we need them to get behind us."

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I like the coach/players asking the crowd to crank it up - can make for a great atmosphere.

' after it, as thats what he is inferring.

But the whole statement for me is a massive white flag. It comes over to me as "I've no clue what I'm doing, we're going to get humiliated".

The players can get the crowd spured on by making the big hits, making great runs. We will kick in when it's needed. I fully hope to be ho on Saturday, giving me reason to lubricate my voice box



Come on you Saints.

That's what you think he is inferring. I've read that sort of comment on the Saints website millions of times to try to sell more tickets and create an atmosphere. If it was anybody else at the club but Potter, nobody would read anything into it.

I don't know why Ski is taking offence anyway - on Redvee he's posted that the fans won't sing for the team on Friday, now he is complaining that the coach is pointing out the importance of doing so. He needs to make his mind up.

i've heard this from every coach we've ever had.

"i urge all the fans to get behind us"
"the supporters can be that extra lift we need"

so on and so on.. don't see how this is any different.. if saints read this i think they'd be laughing at some of our supporters for, 'can't do right for doing wrong'

So Mick is absolutely pooing one about playing Warrington too.

It's nothing you yourself haven't said.

It's been a common complaint that Saints fans no longer sing when the chips are down.

Saints fans no longer do anything but boo and sigh. There is no spirit left at KR for me. We need the extended spell of medocrity we're headed for to realise what we once had, to let us see how good it was. We've been taking it for granted for years now.

Utter bollox is all I can say to that.

People have clearly missed the irony...

Ther's nothing ironic about being wrong

I actually agree with Potter (which Lumpy aptly pointed out). The atmosphere is a atrcious at times.

It's not. KR is like a morgue for a non-Wigan or Warrington game. Atmosphere against all the other teams = Zero. I've not seen a 'KR bounce' since Anderson left. Might be to do with us having no strike players and playing an awful style of rugby but it's true.

It is quite obvious to me that what Potter was actually saying there is:
1) Your mother is a dirty prostitute
2) Your dad is Jonny welly
3) I hate you all
4) I am actually employed by Wigan
5) er....
6) I am a pod person from Mars
7) Please bring your babies to the game on Friday so that I can eat them

I really can't believe that other people can't see that that is what Potter is really saying.

I'm pretty sure he would agree on points 3 and particularly 5 if you spoke to him.

it's not a new thing to be fair.. as long as message boards have been going, there's always been comments about there being no atmosphere at 'lesser' games

I remember Dom Feaunati saying 7) all the time.

I was actually saying bollox to your (potentially ironic) suggestion that what we need is a spell of mediocrity to value what we had.


Well, not quite. The first match of last season - against Wire, funnily enough - was a bit springy. I believe Leeds at KR was lively too. Since then, though, I think Saints fans have been replaced by cardboard cutouts.

Well said there... but we'll all be still at Saints long after Potter's been shipped back across the seas......soooooooo put up dem flags bro

I wonder if Potter came out and said 'I hate Saints fans. You're all a bunch of *****' people would still twist it to make it appear like he means something else?