reading this morning about your club putting in an offer for eastmond incase he comes back to league.

Where?

its a nice heading to haah www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/1 ... bath-time/

its a nice heading to haah www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/1 ... bath-time/

Quote ="Big Mike's Kb"its a nice heading to haah www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/1 ... bath-time/'" From that font of all RL knowledge, the Daily Star, the "newspaper" that's obsessed with the goings on of Katie Price and Kerry Katona, I'll take it with a huge pinch of salt. Especially as there's not a single quote that relates to him even possibly coming to us

Quote ="Big Mike's Kb"its a nice heading to haah www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/1 ... bath-time/'" From that font of all RL knowledge, the Daily Star, the "newspaper" that's obsessed with the goings on of Katie Price and Kerry Katona, I'll take it with a huge pinch of salt. Especially as there's not a single quote that relates to him even possibly coming to us

he proberbly wont but who knows.

In the Express as well "He will be offered an escape route by Warrington if his union adventure turns sour"

Red top papers are renowned for talking . The Sun reported the other week that Wakey had made all of it's employees redundant, backroom staff, coaching staff, players, the lot, and would go in to receivership.

What actually happened was the administrators made around 30 backroom staff redundant before the sale of the club could go through to the new owners.

Funnily enough, the article that appeared online had been yanked from it's website the following morning.

Any truth in this is debatable at best.

However, should it actually be true, I say we leave him in Union to rot like an ignored dose of gonorrhea. The arrogant little ringpiece!

As mentioned before, you can bet that the contract with Bath will include a provision giving Saints first option to sign him if he returns to RL.

Allegedly no such clause exists. Also, the whole Iestyn Harris / Leeds / Bradford thing put those kind of clauses to bed, I think.

Well said mate.
I hope he leaves Saints ASAP so the little scrote can play with his union mates.

...."but like the Murphy's.....Im not bitter"

Not really, although the court costs nearly signalled goodbye and goodnight for the Bulls, and probably hinders them financially to this very day.

I can't even remember who won that court case now ... I'm guessing Leeds? Either way, Harris never returned to Leeds because he simply didn't want to.

and the moral to that story...."never trust pooh-house Harris"

Oh I won't deny i'm bitter,too right.
What pi55es me off is the way he has conducted himself throughout this whole saga.
The game on friday night against Wire more or less confirmed it for me.

Any one see Eastmond make a tit of himself on tele www.itv.com/granada/kyle-union-is-bigger23221/

Any one see Eastmond make a tit of himself on tele www.itv.com/granada/kyle-union-is-bigger23221/

Quote ="jdrocket"Any one see Eastmond make a tit of himself on tele www.itv.com/granada/kyle-union-is-bigger23221/'" what a merchant banker he is....Saints should stick him in the reserves for the rest of the season.

Quote ="jdrocket"Any one see Eastmond make a tit of himself on tele www.itv.com/granada/kyle-union-is-bigger23221/'" what a merchant banker he is....Saints should stick him in the reserves for the rest of the season.

Don't see how he made a tit of himself.

Nothing he said it technically wrong. But it's very premature. If you are leaving one sport to move to another, the time to make comparisons is once you've experienced the new sport. The whole thing, like his handling of his contract negotiations has just been very disrespectful to Saints. He's been very poorly advised in how he has handled it IMO. The next thing he'll do shortly is go and visit Bath to find his house etc and end up being papped by their media team holding or wearing a Bath shirt whilst still contracted to Saints like Chris Ashton did.

The interview is on a prime time on ITV, who own rights to the Union coverage. If it were the other way round, him moving to League from Union, do you think that interview would have happened? He's been given rehed comments to make, which whilst not 'wrong' aren't necessary and are said at the wrong time. The time to make those comments is after making his try scoring debut for England in front of 80,000 at Twickenham.

He'll better have thick skin on Friday if anyone bothers to turn up.

did himself no favours there.

: )

Saddened, for once I agree with you. I think that throughout the entire affair he has been extremely disrepspectful to his current employers. He's shouting the praises of RU whilst still employed by a Rugby League club. I wonder what his attitude will be if he comes back with his tail between his legs in 18 months time.

Seems awful similiar to Chris ashton and he was very popular with the Wigan fans after his shirt incident.

Patronising the saints fans and belittling the Rugby league community on tele does no good. Especially when you are contracted to them.

I personally liked his comments about always wanting to play union. Well thanks for telling the league fans that.

Edit: just read Saddo's comment. He puts it ALOT better than me.

Fine way to treat a club who will have looked after him no end. For someone who hasn't achieved anything in RL to treat Saints and the sport that way is completely uncalled for.

Personally i think the whole situation mainly comes down to him not the being the sharpest tool in the box, if he fancied a go at union then fair enough, he could have said in a statement the following which would have gone down a lot better with the saints fans and RL fans in general.

"I want to thank all the St Helens players, fans and staff for the way they have supported me over the years, i`ll be giving nothing less than 100% to St Helens for the rest of the season and rugby union won`t be in my thoughts during this time. The oppertunity arose for me to try rugby union, after thinking long and hard about the offer it seemed sensible to give the game a try now whilst i`m still young enough as age would give me the chance to return to rugby league at a later date if things didn`t work out. St Helens would be my only choice if i returned to rugby league as they have supported me since i was a young kid and i feel that kind of loyalty and support towards me should be rewarded if i returned to rugby league".

That would sound a lot better than basically saying rugby union is a lot bigger and better game than league, we know its a bigger game Kyle but do you think that RL fans would want to hear that from a professional RL player thats been supported since he was a kid by a professional rugby league club that has also backed you financially and supported you in every way possible ?