Do you honestly think that every player that leaves saints will be replaced by a young kid?

It don't work like that. We will be lucky if 3 of the young bunch we have now are playing in saints 1st team in 2 years.

Everyone would love it if we could just replace with youth but I'm pretty sure it's not possible.

I know, thats why i said "if". I think wello will still be our full back in 2011

2011!!! I hope not.

He still good player but his best days are behind him.

Do you think pryce and wheeler/eastmond will work?

I don't think it will. I'd love it to work but I don't see any of them as a ball player.

IMO wellos lack if pace from kicks always puts us on back foot which I feel is 1 of reasons we struggle to get out of our half

I don't think he'll be our full back next year tbh.

Of all the kids that have been tried at FB so far it's been Lomax who has impressed me the most. Good speed. Steps well. Confident when he addresses the ball and injects himself into the line well. Defence is another question. He wasn't put under enormous pressure by Wakey. But then he did cope with most of what he was tested with.

I do think wheeler or eastmond have the potential to succeed, if they will or not noone can tell and only time will tell

I have no doubts about Wheeler. He'll be a good player.

Hard to tell how good lomax is because he not played much.

So far only wheeler IMO as shown he can make it and eastmond has showed a tiny bit of what he can do.

I agree. Wheeler looks like he is going to be very good.

and you can't ask anymore of him than that. I am starting to believe that Lomax/wheeler/eastmond/moore/clough/ashurst all have what it takes and the attitude to boot.

As much as I'd love them all to make it but I think your living in dream land

Myler will be Saints new SH
Ratchford also being looked at.

so i hear

Saints will not pay the money for myler.

We won't pay for anyone.

Maybe, time will tell

I'd like Ratchford at Saints but we have no chance of signing Myler.

I was told about Ratchford last season; that we were looking at him.

I find it hard to believe Saints are looking at a young scrum half.

I do too, why? other than we have no confidence in our kids which goes against the chairmans own words on the matter. Saints name comes up when any good player is coming out of contract. We are just used to up contracts, as we are now "cashed up"

I could understand the club moving to secure a highly-experienced player for one season purely to help smooth the transition of kids like Eastmond. Someone like, say, Stacey Jones, who could also offer a wealth of experience to draw from. That's fine, IMO.

But Myler is still a junior himself and thus isn't likely to want to play second fiddle to anyone. If the club signs Myler it's in essence saying it has no confidence in those players charged replacing Long. Certainly not a 'committment to junior development'.

I think it could maybe be good idea to bring in a old head scrum half for 1 year for 1 year.

That's why we wanted long for 1 year.

But did you.
Long has stated publically that there was no 1 year offer made formally to him.

Saints have a history of findng money for players when you'd least expect it.

It's only 2 examples and it hasn't happened often but firstly with Newlove and then with Sculthrope they found the cash and suprised everyone.

Especially the Sculthrope deal i remember thinking there was no chance he'd end up at Saints because of the money Wire were after but they found it and will do again for Myler if they really want to.

I think all 3 of Wigan, Wire and Saints will bid for Myler at the end of the season.

I bet we would get Deacon cheap

If that's the best we can do we may as well go for Iestyn Harris