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The scary thing is Snowdog is that you are the only one that bit

From what I have heard that we were not in the running for TP and that it was just speculation and maybe the Wire being used to bump up his bargaining power.

So first of all the wire fans were claiming he had defo signed for warrington a la James Graham, even though TP went on record as saying it was either saints or the NRL, pretty much laughing off these rumours. Now hes re-signed, the wolfs fans are claiming they were only interested to bump up his wage. Thats reem!

Anyone who knows McMmanus will know he doesnt play these games. He will have a wage in mind for TP and if TP could have gotten more elsewhere, see ya later dude, but dont let that get in the way of our little wolf friends fantasy

Jog on Wolfs, nothing for you here!

Best possible news for the club. Great bit of work as always by the big mac.

Excellent news.

Absolutely made up with TP signing his new deal.

This is the biggest signing for next season in our new stadium with TP ripping defences apart,it's going to be bloody brilliant.

Forgot to mention to the wire fans saying he was never signing for us yeah you where all right.

Excellent news for Saints. Losing Graham is a big loss, but the rest are big wages being moved off the bill at just the right point and age, injury and form begin to wane.

Our pack is very good and the kids have shown their quality this year it will give us alot of rotation next yea if we can get a run of fit players.

Hookers : Roby, Moore
Props: LMS, Perry, Clough, Puletua, Megennis
2nd Row: Soliola, Laffranchi, Dixon, Ashurst
Loose: Wilkin

Half backs: Lance, Gaskell, Lomax, Wheeler
Centres: Meli, Shenton
Wingers : foster, gardner (looks likely with his current form, keeping on a rolling contract much better player)
Fullback: Wellens , Nathan Ashe, makinson

Then there are some other young players ready who can put their hands up for a game.
There is also alot of cross over, such as Wheeler can play centre and loose.
Lance can play FB and half back.

For the first time in a long time we are probably weaker in the 2nd row than elsewhere. But then they do say Saints can only produce 2nd rowers. lol

With Flannery, Pryce, Eastmond, Graham all out this year, you would imagine there should be some money left from Puletua, Lance and Laffranchi.

If you swap Eastmond for Lances money, and flannery's wage added onto Puletua's money, i doubt Laffranchi would take the rest of Pryce's and Grahams wage, so there must be another signing or 2 in the offing.
They would have to be british as we are full on non-federation players, but still some more space in the Saints family.

I'll be little gutted if we don't bring waterhouse over now as I thought he would be great addition to our backrow.

I think we need a good centre. A real go to centre that's good with the ball. Lyon or hayne would do.

The only time Warrington even featured on the horizon was when Saints made their first offer of a 1 year contract - TP wanted more, understandably.

Once Saints came back and offered 2, it was only ever going to be Saints or a return home.

I said on the rumours thread that I was confused over the rumours as I couldn't see any reason why he would opt to move to Warrington - seems I was right, and the 'nailed on' rumours were desperate 'look at us, we're massive' straw clutching from our wannabe neighbours a'la Graham, Sinfield, Scully et al.

Neither compare to the mighty Meli.

3 years and counting 2008-2011,

back on here yet again ! it must upset you so much to see Saints fans happy so sod off back to the dark side!

I thought it was a reasonable question, as obviously did Saint Simon who answered politely.

Had his answer been different then I would have disagreed.

Its massive for us that he's staying. He gives us both forward power and X Factor.

I would suggest he's one of the biggest overseas stars in SL today.

Not many could argue against that, and he clearly has 2 more years left in him

My view, is that's it's a risk signing a player who will be 34 years of age when he finishes at Saints, and I think Saints knew that when they initially offered him a one year deal.
However with Graham leaving it's probably a risk worth taking.

I don't think that having four 30 odd year olds in the pack (if you sign Waterhouse) is the way to go, especially as they are all overseas players. I'm not as convinced as some on here that Clough and Magennis are prop forwards.
I think signing Hill form Leigh would be a better signing for Saints than Waterhouse.

The reason I asked the question in the first place was to see if the poster meant that it was the best Saints signing or the best Superleague club signing, no dramas, but some posters on here look for things that don't exist in my posts.

Its never ideal, but if your going to do it with anyone, a prop is probably your best bet, and Tony seems very durable in terms of fitness. I don't reckon Water house will be coming now, anyway.
Magennis fair enough, but imo Clough is more and more a (good) prop forward everytime he plays. I'm quite excited about the prospect of signing Hill, if the reports of him are true - its always nice to be linked to good young british talent.

Rogues Gallery wrote:My view, is that's it's a risk signing a player who will be 34 years of age when he finishes at Saints, and I think Saints knew that when they initially offered him a one year deal.


bit like signing gareth hock on a 5 year deal until he is 34? bit risky cosidering he may not come back the same player!

Gareth Hock is only 27, but yes it is a risk.

I think Stuart Fielden would have been a better comparison.

I thought Hock was only 27?

He is.

To avoid the risk of players getting injured, we could just go for all young players, like Wheeler, Eastmond, Lomax, Gaskell, Frodsham, Magennis, Makinson, Armstrong. Oh hold on a sec.. Numpty

TP has one of the best injury records at Saints, and at this club not getting injured is a minor miracle!