Quote ="bewareshadows"Our starting 13 from 2000
1 Paul Atcheson UK
2 Chris Smith UK
3 Kevin Iro Overseas
4 Paul Newlove UK
5 Anthony Sullivan UK
20 Tommy Martyn UK
7 Sean Long Scrum UK
8 Apollo Perelini Overseas
9 Keiron Cunningham UK
10 Julian O'Neill Overseas
11 Chris Joynt Second UK
12 Sonny Nickle Second UK
13 Paul Sculthorpe Loose UK
Every team has a dash of overseas players as you want the best mix you can afford, but to say we have relied on overseas is pushing it. You could do this every year to today.
The big difference is in the amount of players from the Saints academy mixing into the team. Where as in the past we had to buy big from other clubs, eg Newlove and Scully'"
Hoppe, Tuilagi, if Saints don`t rely on overseas talent why don`t we use English players only.