Quote ="Saddened!"Unless the conservatives sort out the economic confidence in the pound the chances of us signing anything of quality from the NRL are massively reduced.'" thats a very good point. news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/mar ... _month.stm its gone from 2.1 to 1.6 ish in 12 months which is $100,000 less per year on a £200k deal.

Quote ="Saddened!"Unless the conservatives sort out the economic confidence in the pound the chances of us signing anything of quality from the NRL are massively reduced.'" thats a very good point. news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/mar ... _month.stm its gone from 2.1 to 1.6 ish in 12 months which is $100,000 less per year on a £200k deal.

Eric Grothe Jnr to arrive next month.

Youve been begging for some rock n roll in the saints team for a long time.

You dont get any more rock n roll than Eric Grothe Jnr and we get an enforcer to boot. He would fight his own shadow!

We dont have a quota spot though which is a shame, id love him at Saints

Craig Hall

Looks like Shenton is all but done from what i've heard.

Good signing imo. We could of done alot worse. The Aussies wont be coming over any time soon with how poor the pound is.

What is your source. Don't mince about, just PM me. I'd love to know where these concrete signings come from.

By the way I heard mine in Asda in Golbourne, near the pie stall in a conversation between two randoms, thought nothing of it, then read in the paper how Grothe is looking to move to Super League.

He'd be crucified by the fans for his turnstile like defence.

I think he is better than he was.

Definately looks as if british centres are being scrutinised.
It's all a game of cat and mouse. Howes was the agent
for both Shenton and Hall IIRC.

After the Roby / Wild situation it's clear that all parties
(Clubs , Players , Agents) play a bit of poker.
Add into this the Facebook revolution.

Hence there are a lot of rumours and not all of them
are Webcke like.

Golbourne ASDA seems the place to go.

Not so much a rumour but i was talking to a number of our u15 scholarship coaches before and they have high expectations of our lads. We start our season May 8th vs Wigan and we have some great lads but the funny thing is hardly any of them support Saints. They're all Wigan and Warrington fans. We also have one lad who travels from Barrow twice a week for training and had to turn up to a bag packing excerside today for 3 hours, must be hard travelling that distance. His a good player aswell. The good thing at Saints is that all the youth lads seem to get on really well, despite them playing for rival amataur clubs.

Justin Morgan to coach Saints from next season with a former player as assistant.

Former player or current player who will retire soon?

He'll mean Sculthorpe won't he? Been touted for a few coaching jobs since he retired.

Let’s hope that’s not true. Rovers have done relatively well but we have to be honest and say that they are defensively inconsistent and are hardly an entertaining team. In fact, I’ve just checked and only the Crusaders have less offloads than them in this league campaign.

I knew that, just I was throwing KC into the mix.

Could that not be horses for courses though? They don't have many star players who stand out as individuals, a lot of those players came up with them and have stayed in the team.

IMO he was the man who should have got the job when Potter reluctanctly agreed to take it.

Cool shades - Tick
Personality - Tick
Not afraid to court controversy and speak his mind - Tick
Able to motivate players to play beyond their station - Tick

I could certainly see him fist pumping at the new Saints stadium after a rousing victory.

Sounds like Potter that

These are the reasons he is my favourite coach.

Josh Perry rumoured to be in discussions with us according to the Aussie media. I can't say I know who he is or how good he might be.

He is a prop though so it looks like whoever does recruitment at Saints is looking at the right areas.

Hes the one who rearanged Jamie Peacocks face in last years world club challenge

www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/n ... 5852898359 He would help Graham out loads. Not sure i'd give him a3 year deal thou. Maybe 2 years with 1 year option as he'll be 30 when he arrives. his playing outstanding for Manly at the minute.

www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/n ... 5852898359 He would help Graham out loads. Not sure i'd give him a3 year deal thou. Maybe 2 years with 1 year option as he'll be 30 when he arrives. his playing outstanding for Manly at the minute.

He's big (tall), even for a prop, isn't he? Played a few games for Aus?

Yes. He was in the 2008 world cup squad and played for NSW this year. Manly want to keep him but are only offering a 2 year deal, he wants 3.

Just heard this morning that Josh Perry has been signed up for next year.

If we sign Shenton and Perry for next season then i will be very happy and our pack will be HUGE!!!!

Wellens
Gardner
Wheeler
Shenton
Meli
Pryce
Eastmond
Graham
Moore
Perry
Soliola
Puletua
Wilkin

Bench. Roby, Faasavalu, Clough, Hargreaves

Thats if Meli is still on contarct, if not then put Lomax in.

By us or Manly?