Quote Wilbred T Pricklepop="Wilbred T Pricklepop"Does that mean Mike Rush is some kind of seminal, supernatural [iuber coach[/i never seen in sporting history before?
Afterall he's only been in the hot seat a week and he produces the most motivated performance seen from a team all season. Saints played like men posessed.
Obviously whatever simmons has been doing so far this season, the saints players didn't think much to it.
Simmons leaves, rush comes in and says ''just go out there and express yourselves'' and saints let all their frustrtions of recent weeks out.'"
Anyone who believes Simmons wasn't the issue is delusional at best. If Royce was still in charge, we'd have never played like that, no.way on earth. We'd have had Lomax and Gaskell in the halves, Makinson on the wing, Meli in the centres, Wheeler in the 20s, TP at prop, Wilkin at Second Row, Clough at Loose, and the final piece - Hohaia on the bench, with no size in the other three subs.
I don't think kc and rush have coached the team to play that way, I just think they've removed the over cautious tactics of Simmons. I don't think we'd see so many offloads all year as tonight, and not once the "lomax, gaskell, wellens" move, which was so obvious, and desperately showed wello's pace up!
Somebody said our only tactic of five drives and see how far gaskell can hoof it was all we had.
Anyone criticising the decisions to remove Royce has gone strangely quiet. One swallow doesn't make a summer, but I'm 100% sure, we'd have never played like that tonight under Simmons [size=50(ref Paul Shorpe)[/size