That would be awesome!

Shontayne HaPe leaving bath at the end of the season, agreed today he will join Irish.

Is this what the hold up has been waiting fir Hape to leave so they can give Kyle what he wants?

I'd go with that Judgey. Looks like they want him big style. Why don't we just loan him until the end of the six nations and then he can come back after he's set a union try scoring record?

Hape was always leaving, Bath have already signed Dan Hipkiss to replace him.

I am sure Bath would be most happy with that and no need to pay a fee to sign him for next season????

I think you should release Eastmond and show he's not holding up your club.
Then make a new increased offer to Graham letting it be known that you value him far more than Kyle.
Graham is the one you need to keep, in his case you really do need to put everything you possibly can into his offer of a new contract.
He's far more valuable to Saints and SL than Eastmond and I do hope the rumours a while ago of him signing a 5 year deal are true.
If it was between one or the other, Graham everytime.

Is he though? Graham is a fantastic player and IMO the best prop in the league but good props are easier to come by than good scrum halves that have potential to be great. Both players have potential to be saints legends and I would not like to have to choose between them. It looks as though that choice is not going to be saints' though.

It's nothing to do with money for Graham, it's about his dream of playing in oz. His decision won't change for a few more quid, he really loves saints

Just a suggestion, if Kyle does go would it be worth having a look at Deacon as I cant think of too many scrum halfs that would just take over from Kyle?

Is that a joke?

As Graham has been brought into the discussion, of course he is happy currently at a top club, but he must have some ambition and to try something different and that is Australia, doubt he is here for life, it is just a matter of when!

every player wants to keep on moving up the ladder and i think in grahams eyes that is in oz and is just a matter of when rather than if.

I'd be more then happy for Wigan to send secret agent Deacon over to Saints to run your side and replace Eastmond. He does a solid job for us but it's a very simple one and thats about all his body is up to nowadays. He basically just keeps the ball moving for us and gets it to our expansive runners but a replacement for an explosive talent like Eastmond? Not in a million years.

If I were Saints coach i'd be giving a few of the youngsters in your squad the chance to nail down the position by playing them there this season when possible and if one of them isn't really standing out i'd target a new signing. I can't see any truth in the rumour that Hull will sign Cooper Cronk but if there was even a 1% chance of getting him over here i'd be doing my upmost to bring him in.

I don't know what to think about this anymore. He said he would give us the news last week and we've not heard anything. The obvious agent/Union created press releases through the papers and Sky Sports News seem to have dried up now as well. It would appear he's made his decision.

But why delay it? If he's going he would want to give himself as much time before the next match as possible, assuming he's staying with us until the end of his contract.

I'd love it to be like the old days, when watching Saints was like watching WWE Wrestling on TV. A big announcement pre game against the Wire and then a rip roaring performance from him and the team to send them home crying again. If Kyle announces he's off and we lose to Warrington I think I'll be stopping off on Runcorn Bridge for a bit of contemplation.

It seems weird that Bath would let a marquee player like Hape go and get no one in surely?

On the surface it just looks like a matter of time before the decision is announced.

You don't need to have a guy who is always injured in the team you know. It's not a specialist position!

we've got gary wheeler for that

You are probably right, it does look like he's off, but Bath have signed another player in the same position as Hape already.

Cooper Cronk is joining if we lose Eastmond I hear. Is he any good?

you could say that ! i'd pay his air-fare from Melbourne to JLA to get him

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -28216987/ Scully (like us all) just wants this saga over!

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -28216987/ Scully (like us all) just wants this saga over!

The twittersphere is very quiet on any news today, unlike last week. I'd hazard a guess thats because noone has a clue what his decision might be

No, he didn't. He said he'd make his decision last week, the lack of official word leads us to believe that a) he's still having difficulty making his decision or b) things are taking time to happen behind the scenes with contract negotiations etc.

You should be a politician.