According to the Manchester Evening News Salford are being linked with Andrew Dixon for next season. Is he any good and is it likely to happen do you think?

Good win for you guys tonight that keeps us on bradfords tails - thanks!!

Dixon got big wraps from us Saints fans in the first few games then got dropped for other players and has only had bit parts yet.

You can expect a player who can tackle and run all day as we produce that type of player from our academy, but really he's not been tested enough to be able to give him a fair assessment.

Never let us down, plenty of speed and picked up a good few tries. Will be sad to see him go, but for some reason, his face doesnt fit. Defintily better than Matty Ashurst.

That sounds good - Matty Ashurst has been good this year so if he is better than him, that'll do! Is he out of contract this year then or is he just being allowed to leave?

He's out of contract. But with this set of backrowers ahead of him he would struggle to get a game next year.

Manu, Sia, TP, Wilkin, Flanaghan.

Would be a good signing for Salford.

To be honest i would be disappointed to let him go as for me he is a really promising player.

He is probably unlucky in that Saints dont currently have any gaps that need filling in the backrow, so is not getting the opportunities his talent deserves.

He is very much a running backrow who runs very good angles. He also has excellent pace.
Weakness is in defence as he tends to drop off some tackles but that might be his youth and lack of size.

More talented all round player than Matty Ashurst, who i know has gone well at Salford.

When I posted few month back that a young player has been told he can go. It was Dixon I was referring to.

I was told at the time that Widnes and Salford wanted him.

Well there goes the next Joynty

And if he does go Salford my prediction of 2/3yr ago when I said they will be playing at Salford soon will have come true

I think he could make an outstanding centre. He runs brilliant lines, tackles very well and is pretty quick. He's not big enough for the second row in any serious capacity, he should be given a run at centre.

Is this what Eamonn McManus meant when he said we need to put our faith in St. Helens' outstanding academy crop?

I've come to the conclusion that McManus just says what he thinks fans want to hear but then does the opposite. The line about young players was just to cover doing things on the cheap.

As with Wheeler, Dixon was in excellent form at the start of the season but got dropped with the change in coaching setup. It would be a shame to lose him as I think he was developing into a good second rower.

Not good enough. Does have the size or aggression to compete as a modern day forward. Dixon was left out on occassions by Simmons if memory serves me right. Likes of Forster now ahead of him even before the likes of Manu, TP, Wilkin, Flanagan etc
Needs to be playing regular first team rugby & will go. Certainly not the Nathan Brown style of forward.

Good signing for Salford - not good enough for us. We always produce plenty of similar workhorse 2nd rowers whenever we need one in the squad so I doubt we'll miss him.

Good squad player will fill plenty roles just don't expect block busting runs.
But we want Broughton as an exchange or your not having him

He is a second row in the Lee Gilmour mould. Pretty quick for a second rower, deceptively strong with the best footwork of all our second rowers. Better than Matty Ashurt anyway

He played regularly at the start of the season.

Yep...and as above, was also left out on occassions by that clown Simmons. Is it me or playing regularly & left out occassionally a similar thing? Or are you on a personnel crusade to reply & takeover every single thread.
Irrelevant, gets thrown round like a rag doll against the bigger packs & isnt good enough, hence why he aint getting picked.

If my memory serves me right, super Royce didn't pick him in the starting line up against London but played due to flannery taking ill in which Dixon played well which backed up his impressive friendly game against Widnes but then was dropped the following week by super Royce on his crazy rotation system.

You seem to be on a lot of threads too.

Dixon was played whenever he was not injured or on rotation, same as everyone else in the team at that time. You were making out he was dropped, which he wasn't. Unlike now, when he has been.

You're gonna love Nathan Brown if you thought Royce's rotation was crazy. You should read the frustrations of Hudds fans over Brown's crazy rotation system.

You wern't around in the Millward years , I suspect most other posters here were so I doubt anything brown does will shock us

Without rotation, Tomkins would not be the devastating FB he is, Morley would not have become one of countrys best front rowers, Wello wouldn't have made it etc.

The Hudds criticism, unsurprisingly, has arisen since Brown declared he was joining Saints. Before this, they've been pleading for him to stay each time his contract approached expiry.

Don't be fooled by Hudds sour grapes.

Dropped, rotated which ever way you dress it up, he wasnt picked & isnt currently being picked by Mike Rush. Like i said before, lacks aggression & size to play for a top side with aspirations of winning things. Ill guarantee the likes of Wigan, Warrington, Cats etc wont be sniffing around him for next year.

But we did rely on our Academy crop then (albeit to "do things on the cheap", aka delivering a brand new stadium and securing the future of our club)?

I'll also be sorry to lose him, reminded me of Stankevitch who I also had a lot of ime for. But would he be happy playing a bit part as he is behind Sia, Wilkin, Flanagan, TP, Manu (if signed)?