Any idea how much a top coach is paid?

Is the salary of the backroom staff included in the salary cap?

I think you have a different definition of injury prone to me. I see someone who is injury prone as someone who regularly picks up injuries. Now this may be due to an inherent physical weakness, being targeted by the opposition, or just the kind of player who puts themselves in the thick of things and suffers injuries as a result. It seems your definition is a player who constantly suffers similar injuries. I don't see that the specific injury makes any difference to the definition of "injury prone". Whether it's a broken leg or a ruptured knee ligament it's still an injury.




I'd have said I'd played a blinder given that they've recently given 2 30+ year olds 2 year contracts which kind of blows your argument out of the water

If saints felt they would have got good value out of long for 2 years they'd have kept him and accomodated him, pryce and eastmond in the team.

Then we'll have agree to disagree. Some players do just have bad luck sometimes.



That shows a change in policy since Long left, not necessarily that they didn't think Long wasn't good enough value. The fact that Meli has a similar track record to Long points to St Helens changing their stance on the basis of the player market, not the players in question, IMO.

Indeed, but if that "sometimes" happens regularly enough it starts to look like it isn't bad luck (which assumes that "luck" exists)



So they only changed their policy after long left? Very convenient for your argument

But true nevertheless. All 30+ year-olds last year got offered no more than a year, as did Flannery this year.

My guess is the dearth of good fed trained fullbacks and wingers is what's forced their hand.

My guess is that they thought that they wouldn't get many games out of long but we'll never know who is right will we?