Glad you said it not me

Well, he did do at Leeds in the CC and he did do at Wakey. So there is every chance he could do again.

Something tells me a month's notice is required to get a player back when they are out on a year long loan.
Moore could of course be different, and then there is the salary cap.

We get it already dude, you don't like our recruitment policy of recent seasons, you don't have to repeat it in every thread.

sorry o mighty one

Do you not think Eammon would have noticed?

If we dont get to wembley our recruitment will be further hampered.

If I keep banging on about it and reads this site then maybe.

I've got a funny feeling he won't need me to tell him in the next few weeks.

I've got a funny feeling he may already know, what with running the club and all.

Don't be so fcking ridiculous.

so you think he already knows we lack depth and are pinning our hopes on a few 20yr olds?

we was saying same thing in pub the other night.

If you know it with your limited brainpower, I reckon he has a fair idea.

But we don't have an unlimited budget/Salary cap. Yes it would have been nice to have more players to choose from and I think everyone has ideas about where they think we need to recruit but we don't know the figures not only about what the cap will allow but what the club can comfortably afford.

To be fair we are still joint top of the table, still in the Cup Semi Final any team losing so many players including a good few first choice players would struggle regardless of whether players have been recruited from externally or internally.

limited brain power! How dare you!

Shame sir mac didn't do anything about it then.

I keep banging on about how poor a decision it was to go all out with youth and so few senior players. This is the kind of time where you need two or three average, low paid journeymen pros.

If Eastmond doesn't play in the Semi Final or if Cunningham is banned, it's a write off. It would have been a very tough game anyway, but without all those players it's not possible.

With the Pies a week before the semi final likely to injure a few more, would anyone agree with me that resting the 3 or 4 remaining senior players might be a good idea?

that's a good point, we don't know how much we have or haven't got to spend.

And I also do understand that we are in a credit crunch so sir mac may be looking after the pounds and pence.

Maybe if the club told us, the paying fans the reasons behind lack of recruitment then we would understand.

Sir mac has never let us down yet and is best thing to happen to our club in recent years but a bit of information to why would help.

we got longy, gilmour, cayless all going next year with a centre coming in.

I just hope we are looking for players.

This is from a thread a few weeks back

They already have done.

They refuse to pay over the odds for players. With more teams spending up to the cap, more teams have more money to play with. Teams like Hull KR and Huddersfield will pay over the odds for players, or offer them longer contracts than we would do. This is because, whilst they may be a body in our squad or a bench player, 9 times out of 10 those players walk straight into their first teams.

Hence we wouldn't pay over the odds for Carvell, why Fozzard went to HKR, why Gilmour and Long are leaving next year. Unless we [ineed[/i to sign someone, I doubt that we will.

The club have said why we havent recruited heavily, and its been stated on here numerous times.
1. Salary cap.
2. Putting faith in youth
3. Other players needing salary uplifts as they become senior pros' eg Graham and Roby.

On the subject of signing average joes. Other clubs do this and they are languishing further down the table than us.

I agree with most of that.

I disagree. The last thing we need is 'journeymen pros'. We need to be focusing on the best over a longer period, not short term solutions that will leave us looking like Wigan. I think what has made things difficult this season is the number of injuries we seem to have found ourselves with. If we hadn't had those injuries to contend with but had been sailing through like Leeds then while we haven't exactly been playing the best rugby league in the history of Saints, we would be a few points ahead at the top and in the semis and functioning fine overall.

Just a pity a section of our fans cannot see the bigger picture and love making knee-jerk decisions.