@James_Smailes: In other news #hullfc enter race to sign Michael Shenton, but Castleford favourites. [i[uCas offered a deal to match what he's on at Saints[/u[/i

Agent Millward can't help doing us favours.

We are good at overpaying players, Richard Owen is on 100k a year.

Fwiw. He has left the Cas deal laying there, And agreed to sign for Hull Kr, So they will have paid similar to what we offered.

Clearly, quite a few teams are of the opinion that Shenton offers far more than he has delivered at Saints, and are prepared to pay for it. Which begs the question, why have Saints not got the best out of him? Is it purely because we can't pass that way? Should we try him on the left to see if he is any better? Seems a shame to lose what cold be a potent attacking player, simply because we have used him wrong.

No offence intended, but the likes of Castleford and Hull KR are not great teams and they are the only teams (that we know of) who are really interested; it says a lot IMO

Hull Fc are also trying to sign him.

At the end of the day, Not all clubs 1) Need a centre, 2) Have the £120'000 free to sign him.

And Hull

Sometimes it just doesn't work out for a player at a club for no obvious reason, and a change of scenery is best for all involved.

Does he still live in Yorkshire? If so, he must be the only one who does now - the lonely commute every day might have some impact on his performances and on his integration with his teammates (i.e. when they go out and do stuff after training, or after games does he just go home on his own?) It would have an impact on his on field performances IMO.

From what has been released into the press I don't think that Hull were/are '[ireally [/iinterested' in him. They (apparently) have Arundel signed up, so I don't see where he'd fit in over there.

I wouldn't get too excited about Turner, he started the season as 3rd choice centre at FC.

Has had 2-3 very good games for FC this year but he's nothing special.

Thats 2 - 3 more than Shenton has had for Saints in 2 years.

Lies. He had 3/4 of a good game in the Grand Final.

I stand erected. I should have said that's 1.25 to 2.25 more very good games than Shenton has had for Saints in 2 years

turner could turn out to be a very good signing for you guys, hes big strong and quick

In Turners defence,Agar was coach then.

twitter.com/#!/James_Smailes/sta ... 0348180481 Hull FC in for Shenny

twitter.com/#!/James_Smailes/sta ... 0348180481 Hull FC in for Shenny

Hull FC may just be in for Shenton because Hull KR are in for Shenton. There maybe no real intention to buy, just an intention to make Hull KR pay as much as possible for any player they sign.

Lets hope the twitter is true that Cas have offered a deal to match Saints as that will save us a few pennies.

Well, after seeing the performances of the Hudds centres so far tonight, I certainly don't want any of them and I hope Shenton isn't leaving us. He would have passed where McGilveray didn't in that first scoring opportunity and he would have put more effort into defence than half the Hudds team have done up to now.

I hope this propensity to give up on games isn't a product of the Nathan Brown school of coaching.

It's interesting that it's Huddersfield hitting the 2nd half of the season again, not as good as the first half.

Huddersfield have the advantage of having a bye in the next round though so they are not going to suffer back to back defeats.

It was interesting before I knew that Brown was coming our way but now it is definitely worrying. What is just as worrying is this capitulation. I do hope it is this particular group of players and not an indication of what we are going to endure next season.

And to think, there are over 10,000 at that match. 10,000 have come to watch Hudds become all pathetic and give the game to Wigan.

Huddersfield have never had the ability to beat the top teams regularly or in high pressure games. I'm not sure whether it's the calibre of player they have though, I wouldn't take any of their main creators in Brown, Robinson or Brough.

On another note, I'm a bit disappointed with some of the comments about Shenton. Whilst I don't think he's performing well enough at the moment, I think the celebrating that he might be leaving is over the top. He's still a Saints player and deserves our support at matches and is far from our worst ever signing.

Err, what?

We get Wigan, Huddersfield get Salford. It's a bye, certainly not a derby...

They have Salford at Magic weekend, also wire are given the bye of widnes

Ahhh fair enough.