Tansey was struggling to get in the York team!

Cant believe you would replace McGoldrick with Tansey. You get rid of one bad influence and replace him with an English version. *smh*.

Lee Smith on loan to Wakefield for the rest of the season, it seems.

Not a bad move, did chuckle to myself when I saw him play in the 9s finals, bit of a fall from grace from a couple of years ago

Well if that's not a sign of the franchise system doing well then I don't know what is.

Wigan replace an overseas player with a young english talent. Shame Warrington and Hull cant follow suit...

Just a guesstimate but I would sat ATM Hull have the least overseas signing than any other team. Only 3 playing in tonight's game, Heremia, Seymore and Manu.

As it stands so far next season we only have 2.

Isn't that to do with the fact FC having some injuries that you only have 3. O'Meley, Moa and Martin would all be in the first time add McKinnon who left it does add up. Plus McGoldrick coming in.

I think you started 2012 with 7 (?)

Giants have 4 - O'Donnell, Faiumu, Fa'alogo and chan.

hmmmmmm who is this foreign halfback at the wire we have briers, ratchford, myler and o'brien only 1 is over 25

we also have

cooper
harrison
riley
blythe
mcarthy
currie
hill
laithewaite
dwyer


to mention just a few but we also have acadamy products coming through fighting that are on duel registration at the moment.

fair enough we weren't that great at youth 6-10 years ago but we are starting to bear fruit now we have played a few matches with only 1 overseas player in for example against salford our team was

Stefan Ratchford(young english talent), Chris Riley(home grown), Matty Blythe(home grown), Chris Bridge(english), Rhys Evans(home grown), Gareth O'Brien(home grown), Richie Myler(young english talent), Paul Wood(home grown), Micky Higham(english), Chris Hill(young english talent), Trent Waterhouse(overseas), Mike Cooper(homegrown), Ben Harrison(homegrown)

Subs: Adrian Morley(english), Brad Dwyer(homegrown), Tyrone McCarthy(homegrown), David Solomona(exempt)

i make that
9 players that we have produced
15 english
1 overseas
1 exempt

I've been impressed with Jordan Turner since he came to us. Yes he's not outstanding but he has gradually improved game on game and has turned into a valuable utility player. I, for one, am disappointed to lose him.

With McGoldrick now gone, Cas only have: Youngquest, [delChase[/del

& Millington.

Shame he can't defend to save his life and as for leaving his winger on his own, well the less said about that the better.

Lopini Paea signs a 2 year extension, was pretty sure was nailed on for east hull! I guess alot of give and take is used in contract negotioations then.

Ben Cross - New one year deal. Well deserved tbh and is in great form atm and a real leader for the side this year. www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article.php?id=8757

Ben Cross - New one year deal. Well deserved tbh and is in great form atm and a real leader for the side this year. www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article.php?id=8757

A terrible guess.

McKinnon, Martin, Seymour, Manu, Moa, O'Meley, Heremaia and McGoldrick have all played this season.

Shameful

Actually wish he would go now,looks like he is already imagining what he will look like in a red and white shirt.

Saints No3 shirt has now gone from Lyon to Gidley to Shenton to Turner.
Decline in player standards or what?
Is this just Saints or is this happening to other clubs?

Probably happening to quite a lot of other clubs, Warrington don,t look too bad though.

We only had Lyon for two seasons and we only had him at all because Daniel Anderson knew he had experienced mental meltdown, running off to the bush. Had he been a happy bunny in his career he would never have come to England.

Gidley was at the end of his career when he came to Saints although he was a superb player and a great mentor to the young blokes. But truly, those kinds of players - the really talented ones - are they that common to start with?

Isn't it just.

It's a lot more difficult to find top quality Aussies willing to come over these days, especially with increasing salary cap over there while ours stagnates

The HullFC website top story today is saying that we are 'leading the chase' for an SL half-back.

[urlhttp://www.hullfc.com/article/21699/hull-lead-chase-for-sl-half-back[/url

now either the story writer has made an unintentional pun, or the club are trying to hint at something

Unprofessional