If we can improve our defence we'll in the Grand Final playing Wigoon next year. Leeds and Wire need to grab hold of a huge forward or hope we have injuries before they will force their way into my reckoning for the title next year.

The one big thing we have to overcome next year is playing at Widnes. We'll effectively be playing our home games at a neutral venue which is a disadvantage although KR hasn't been a fortress for a good couple of years now so I suppose it might not be as crucial as we think.

and our discipline (in the broadest sense of the word).


If the new coach has us training there as soon as he arrives (assuming we have use of the stadium obviously) then we should be familiar enough with it to play on it as well or otherwise as anywhere else. I think it will be advantageous to us to play on a bigger pitch as I reckon it hasn't helped us being at home on probably the smallest pitch in the league.

Surely your better of on a smaller pitch? With the frontrow you'll have next year, smashing teams into the ground will be your best option for success. On a wider pitch your slow backs will be exposed to an even greater extent just like they were in the GF on the large Old Trafford pitch.

We're better off from a home game POV, sure, but not when we play elsewhere and definitely not when at the Grand Final. We could do with having to cope with a bigger pitch. It keeps us in touch with the real world.

Granted, although if, by some miricle we keep wheeler (assuming he's playing centre), Easmond and new centre Senton fit, we shouldn't [ias[/i worried about defending against pace out wide.

I think keeping hold of Eastmond will be a tall order and I dont think Saints will sell their soul for one player.

I can see him moving on sooner than people think.

yup, a good union offer and he's off

Given the length of his last contract, I expeted him to play this year (his first full season at scrum half) and then renegotiate a longer term deal once we knew he could handle the 7 shirt. The fact he's been injured so much will disrupt that, meaning if he has a stormer next season, we will have trouble getting him to resign come the end of the year when his contract expires.

I'm still not sure any Union club will spend that much money on a player that probably won't want to play on the wing, is fairly untested and is injury prone.

The Union talk was a lot of bluster from his agent to try and up his deal because no other SL club would be able to afford to pay him much more than us.

Eastmond won't go to Union IMO. He's just signed a big money deal to be the face of the new rugby league game and I'm sure it's s couple of years the contract lasts for. The Union talk was all agent talk.

There's a new RL physio sim coming out?

I can see him going to Warrington.

No one else i thinkthough.

That is encouraging, as people have said, he won't be going to yawnion.

Big money deal?! Lmao if he got more than a couple of grand for that I'd be astonished! It sure ain't FIFA 2011!

So wire really did buy Richie myler as the worlds best paid waterboy then!

A contract is a contract. I dont know what he was paid but i can tell you he was over the moon he was the player the company wanted.

He wont stay at Saints although he wont go to union.

hes burnt his bridges with the senior players.

I'm not sure that is a major problem, given that we've only got about 4 senior players.

Where do you get this rubbish? Everyone on here claims to be an insider and know the ins and outs of the goings on at the club. But then none of them ever have a clue about anything that does become reality.

So do tell me, with Warrington, Wigan, Leeds and Huddersfield all spending up to the cap, where is Ickle Kyle off to?

Whilst claiming to be a Sts supporter, MacBlondie has recently posted that he'd swap Graham for Fielden in an heartbeat and that S Tomkins is [iway[/i ahead of Kyle Eastmond. Now there's this.

Seems to me he just likes winding people up.

Don't we have a word for that sort of thing?

Saddened?

Coffee....All over my keyboard. PMSL

Not that I have to explain myself to some random, but Tomkins IS way ahead of Eastmond, only a one eyed Saints fan would think otherwise. People forget that even when Eastmond was fit, he was still anonymous for 3/4 of the game, popping up with an important try or break and then the mass ejaculation commenced. Tomkins has for more to his game and considering we only have the ginger whinger for one more season, yes, id have Fielden in a heartbeat given the comparative form of the 2.

Ludicrous statement which you'll see when Fielden gets thrown around like a rag doll again in Australia. Some of your statements recently have been fairly considered and constructive, however the one above about Graham and Fielden is hopelessly wide of the mark. You may wish to get into a discussion about that but I can tell you now there is no discussion. A few quick PTBs have made Fielden look like he has rediscovered himself when he hasn't. Whenever Wigoon haven't been able to do quick PTBs he's looked like the same player that has sucked up salary cap since he's been there. No amount of eye-catching quick runs will change that, now behave.

Which comparative form is that, his [url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2010&hp1=1885&hs2=2010&hp2=29&stat=tries&season=2010sterling work[/url in marker tackles and tackle busts?

Riiiiight.

You mean like James Graham was in the last world cup? Was made to look as average as they come by both NZ and Aus. I lost track of the times he was put on his booty.

Fielden had a lot to contend with that resulted in a loss of form and confidence that lasted until he got a decent coach. Last season, he wasnt far off his best. Fieldens best was, a level or 3 above that of james graham.

And surely, the worlds best prop (sic) would have his choice of aussie clubs, when in fact, its just one club that has shown an interest that will sign for next year...