I thought Magennis looked like he was struggling at one point, when he very gingerly got up to play the ball. I hope he is ok as he did very well last night.

I saw that an panicked, knowing the knee problems he's had, but he shook it off. Played well, but Potter's still keeping him on low minutes at the moment.

100% agree.

I am one of few fans who have backed potter in his time at saints, he's done a great job with the lightweight squad and injuries, some said we wouldn't make the play offs this year!



We are fighting for 2nd spot and in semi final of CC cup, couldn't ask for much more, only the pies have scored more points than us this year and we've played some good rugby but also some shocking stuff as well!



However, i think potter going at the end of the year is prob for best parties, i just don't think potter fits in and don't think he feels like he fits in.



Lets hope we can send potter away with a cup so he ain't first saints coach never to win anything in super league era, that ain't a record potter deserves IMO

I don't see why Potters got all this stick (granted I haven't watched every saints game) but the shear amount of injuries, the key personell that have left you before this season, I think you've done exceedingly well to (probably) get second in the table.



The experience that your youngsters have got for next year, coupled with the planned signings, I feel that Potter should have at least got another year to try and see if his work can come to fruition.

We have played some poor rugby at times under potter, last season the was some shockers, but i think he has done a very very good job this year.



I don't think potter would have signed another deal with saints mate and i don't think we would offer him a deal either, i think both parties was happy to cut ties.



He just don't fit in with saints.



Watched the game back on sky last night, potter looked up for it last night, that was one game he defo didn't want to lose.

That's fair enough I suppose, but I just thing you've gone through a massive transitional stage and still managed to stay around the top of the league.



Compare that to us, where we dropped so far down the table we should have been relegated.



Just thought he deserved another year to try and keep the key men fit, even if it didn't go to plan you could then time a new coach to move into your new stadium (not sure on your new guy either, reading the West tigers forums they sound very glad to be rid)



But, i'm not an expert so i'll trust your judgement!

A wigan fan that talks sense!

That makes sense. Hopefully he will be ok because it was one hell of an intense match which will have tested his knees to the limit I should think.

Therein lies a lot of the problem with Saints fans. We still finished second and were very close to winning the Grand Final and yet some were bemoaning the fact that we weren't scoring length of the field tries. Criticism was levelled at Anderson for not giving us freeflowing rugby and then when he leaves that is vocalised further because we weren't top of the league. If we'd finished top of the league last year nobody would have batted an eyelid and any criticism of our play would have just been an extension of something that was present during Anderson's reign.



Despite the fact that Potter pushed us closer to winning a Grand Final against Leeds than Anderson did (we were pretty comprehensively outplayed in his two efforts against Leeds), and we had no right to given some of our playing personnel losses/deteriorations, Saints fans wants wins. Some of they might come on here eulogising some personal ethic about a beautiful game and yet when it comes down to it they're quite happy to shift that over to winning when they've been starved of success. We all want to win and we all want to win well, however most important really is competitiveness and that's one thing that has been in abundance in Potter's sides in these last two years when the competition around us has improved. Who did Anderson have to deal with? A magnificent solo season from Hull which we dominated and then two years with Leeds where we flopped big time when the chips were down. And he had Jamie Lyon. Potter has had half a decent season out of Gidley and then A N Other in the left centre yet we can still perform higher than other teams when we compete.



The longer this season goes on the more the decision to not renew Potter's contract looks to be questionable. If Simmons can tighten up our defence then we can go places providing his offensive coaching isn't as bad as they say it is.

I said on another topic last week, the only thing that matters to me is we we cups, i don't care how we play just as long we winn cups.



It's great to play free flowing rugby, but much rather win games anyway possible.



I don't think potter wanted to stay mate.

You are assuming that the club didn't offer Potter an extension. Remember, he was quite firm about wanting to go back to Australia. It's quite possible he would have done so had there been a job available.