ok, i will take your word for it.

Good post Wirefan. It's a short career even if you don't end up getting an injury that finishes you, he may as well get what he can out of it.

There is more to life than money. The following is a letter Savelios mother posted on redvee last year:



As a Saints fan, Im glad that the club stuck by him during the darkest hours, however, I think it goes well above and beyond what should be expected of them as an employer, let alone rebuilding his confidence to the point of breaking into the first team. It should buy the club some level of loyalty in my opinion.

Isn't that just the club fulfilling their side of the contract? I don't see that they've done any more than I would expect from any well run professional sports club. Don't get me wrong, what saints did was great, and absolutely the right thing which they should be applauded for. The fact that he has been highly regarded for some time meant it was in Saints' best interests to get him back to the point of first team selection as well.

However, it is a sport where careers are short, if he felt Saints were paying him lower than his market worth, he was right to look elsewhere - if indeed that's what has happened. Whether that was a real desire to move elsewhere, or an attempt to get his true worth out of a club he really wanted to stay at for how they have treated him in the past.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that just because Saints have treated him well in the past, doesn't mean he should feel compelled to sign a contract that values him at a level which is lower than his own perception.

What happened????

I am sure he was on the field last night???

It must be my mistake???

Money isn't everything as a sportsman. Sometimes the pride of playing for your home town team might just count more than a slightly improved contract offer.

That`s what I was alluding to Mark. The longer the time period drags on without Andre signing a new contract, for Saints, then the more it appears that he will be leaving them.

I am definitely have no claim to in-side knowledge of the situation, but the nearer a player gets to the expiry date of his existing contract, (When there is a new offer from his club), usually means he will sign for an alternative club.

However. that could be a NRL club.

It will be interesting to see who he pens the new contract with. I have NOT seen him play much, but from what I have seen, I don`t think he is ready for the NRL just yet.

www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5089

www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5089

Jesus, the Saints fans got themselves in a right tizz over all this and he's ended up staying with them.

Under quoted it saying 24 hours but got there in the end.
Cooper Cronk anyone?

Have you given up on laughing at the sandow rumour now?

Well we might have got sandow but they've extended Luke Walshs contract...who is a very good player just a shame he's got himself pregnant and scared of tackling. One more beast in the pack and we're looking good for next year.

Last time I looked Sandow wasn't quite the front cover of men's health mag either. Worse still it's still a rumour nothing confirmed by the player, his agent, the eels or Wire

He's got that spherical aboriginal build that's for sure...but he can shift. Not sure Walsh covered ten feet on Friday. Anyway you concentrate on yourselves instead of chuckling at our signings/non signings because after seeing you on Friday you nearly made wigan look good. Give us a shout before the semi and we'll let you know how to beat leeds....or at least get within twenty of em for a change.

They won't beat Leeds and neither will we unless someone kidnaps Burrow and Sinfield for 60mins of each games.

Put to bed.2 year Saints deal.

Both Wire and Leeds put in bids for him but he's staying over there. I don't see why you think that's funny?

I'm not saying that 'laughing boy' is the guilty party, but, the Saints thread on the subject is quite embarrassing.

From all the bullet dodging/ mercenary/money grabbing posts to why would he even think of going to a team that hasn't won a championship since '55 blah de blah.

Despite the defeats, I always had less of a dislike for Saints in comparison to Widnes and Wigan, I even had a sneaky regard due to the style of rugby, but, the more you read the stuff on their board, the more I'm tempted to reconsider...what a bunch they are!!

I said this on the Saints site, but I'll say it here too.

You can come out and say it's a professional game and players are just employees. However, sport is not just a business.
Sport sells, loyalty, passion, parochialism, the club above everything else.

So when fans buy into that concept you have to accept that there will be an element of fans following that lead.

Also sport is psychological as well as physical. Are fans are not allowed to put pressure on players/coaches to stay or go? Do wire fans not go to the ground and shout support and boo the opposition?
If we go out and just say well they are employees and therefore all this passion and loyalty is fakery and has no impact, then why bother to go?

Did Saints fans make a big boo ha ha when Wheeler left for wire?
No.
Why?

Because there was a feeling amongst the fans that both the club and the player had show an intangible level of loyalty to each other and the time was right for both parties to move on. Even those who felt he would come back and bite us in the bum, thought that a new start was what he needed.

If you start telling fans to be professional and not buy into this who sporting concept of passion and loyalty, then you may as well ask them to stop them turning up to watch as the result will remain the same whether or not the fans turn up or boo or shout or cheer.

Well that doesn't excuse the fact that half of you were saying he's not very good when it looked like he might be off to him becoming a world beater again overnight....it was laughable.

Completely untrue & potentially libelous unless you can prove what you're alleging.

Well most of the posts I saw were bemoaning that he may be leaving because we think he has huge potential and that we may never get to see it.

But if you say half of us said he was no good, I'm sure that you'd have no trouble showing those 10 - 15 people up on here for what they are.

To me it was all about not getting to see him really get into his stride. Which happily he now will.

If he moves on in two years, so be it.

Oh bless you



The silly thing is, is throughout all the talk on here of him potentially signing for Warrington, he never was.

After reading all this I am happy he didn't sign.

I personally only want players who would be 100% committed to playing for our club.

Yet you have Daryl Clarke who is in the same boat as Savelio. Quality young player looking to impress the NRL sides. I don't see that as a negative as they've got to play well to impress the NRL scouts.