If he's any sense he'll go now before he really damages his ankle.
Sad to see him go for England's sake but not for the rest of SL's sake.
I wonder if Saints regret not keeping Mark Smith?

Or even Matty Smith?

If he wants to go, let him go. No point crying over spilled milk. At the end of the day if he wants to make a few bob its his life

Yeah that's the one, I knew it looked wrong as I posted it but I knew it would quickly be pointed out that it was wrong.
Thanks for not mocking as some on here would have done.

Sad day for RL loosing such a young talent but it's his life, his money he is earning.

Good luck to the lad I say.

Who will step in to his shoes now at Saints??

What a tool Neil Fissler is "...#rugbyleague is a joke sport"

There has been no official news from Saints yet about Kyle's decision. It will be known this week at some time though as Kyle himself has said so.

If he goes at the end of the season then either we will buy someone to replace him or one of our three other halfbacks will step up. So long as Leon remains at the club we will be fine. Leon is our key halfback. But his contract is also up for negotiation at present, although he has stated in the press that he would like to stay, if the price is right.

If he goes now then one or all of our other three halfbacks will have to step in until the position is filled long term.

As a Saints fan it would be a real shame to see him go from our club but it would also be a shame for RL to lose him because he is a talent. I don't think he's an organising halfback but he is a talented one nonetheless.

Never heard of him

I think Unions a joke sport. Everyones entitled to their opinions!

there is nothing on the bath website or on the bath twitter he may be right but i feel he jumped the gun on this one

I'd think it would be vital. He's going to have to learn another sport from scratch. I can see that they would want him to be released early.

It would be a shame to see him played on the wing, and that's about all he will be able for if he doesn't get a good pre-season. FWIW I think he could do well, but he is going to have to face the Chev factor. Local Northern lad moves to the Westcountry away from all family and friends.

Ashton has done well partly because he started in a great team in a lesser league, and not that far away from his hometown. He was able to learn the game with relatively little pressure. I did laugh when hearing Jeremy Guscott talking about his tries on Saturday, saying that "you can't coach support play like that". Maybe not in Union, but it's a fundamental of League and Ashton will have been coached support on the inside shoulder from the day he started playing the game.

not thee jeremy guscott a man of virtue who is known for telling the truth cdnedge.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/541890.stm

not thee jeremy guscott a man of virtue who is known for telling the truth cdnedge.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/541890.stm

Fissler used to write for the League Express in the days when I was in the capital as an economic refugee ....

For every Jason Robinson, there's a Lee Smith or Chev Walker.

I wonder if Danny Williams thought he was going sweep all before him when he left Leeds too ?

Likewise, in the days we used to get players from the coal fields of S.Wales, for every Lewis Jones, there were the likes of David Young, John Gallagher or that big bloke that occasionally turned out for St Helens.

On the fact of it, it might be bad news for Saints, but let's face it has hardly been a state secret that a) he fancied a pop at Union and b) he might go when his contract was up.

Surely, any half decent CEO would have his mind on this factor when undertaking the recruitment not only for this season, but when in a couple of weeks times, he starts dusting the cheque book off and heading down under for next seasons players.

The other obvious point is, given the fickle nature of our sport, it could be quite possible for any play to run out next week and suffer a season-ending injury. Far more devastating than someone you know is going in xxx months time. Teams have to cope with that sort of thing most seasons.

The one thing we can be positive about, the Rugby League world is quite capabile of generating another Chris Ashton or Kyle Eastmond .... Not so sure the Rugby Union world is.