Sheer quality

S'funny that 'cause all I ever read is how your lads are so much better than ours, whether it be in the RL media or on here.

Maybe I am paranoid but its' left me scratching my head.

The whole board is paranoid! It's a feeling borne of winning the GF from 2nd. I'm sure you'll all be less bothered about what people say and write once you win it from top this year.

That's twice you've mentioned Bailey. Slagging him of won't make Fozzard a better signing I'm afraid, but he does seem to be the goto man for you lot in a crisis.

thackray must have turned them down if fozzy has signed because he was offered a 1 year deal at saints and a 2 year deal at celtic looks like he maybe going to wales although he said he didn't want to move down there

Well, unlike some other Saints fans posting on here, I think resigning Fozzard is not only a mistake but also embarrassing. We let him go because he wanted a two year contract and we weren't prepared to give him a two year contract, as is our policy. However, based on what Potter recently said, our injury crisis this year has triggered a panic buy of a 'bargain prop' (Potter's words). However (again), Foz is not reliable injury-wise, something we already knew when we let him go, so I think the whole thing will backfire. So far as I know, Hull KR released him because they don't rate him, judging by the fact that he doesn't get the game time, which is really encouraging. Not!

Mr Big has made it quite clear that there is no spare cash for next season. Some of that is bound to be because we have had an ageing squad of extremely good players who have been costing us a fortune. We are slowly releasing those players. We're replacing them with cheapo youngsters who undoubtedly have talent (just a really good crop from our academy of that year) and one new foreign signing who himself has bloody dodgy knees!

The other reason for us being cheap as chips is of course the looming new stadium, which is bound to cost a small fortune in initial outlay before we see any signs of revenue from the stratospherically improved facilities it will bring. Therefore, we are going to look like the weakest squad in the league for at least two seasons, which most of us have known for most of this season. But I suppose it is necessary to invest in the future for the club.

i would have thought at 3/4 years younger paul jackson would have been a far better alternative

Very possibly. But Foz is known and obviously available and presumably cheap.

Saintsfan, i never thought you woud say it, but you have just spoke some sense. Congratulations.

he knows the players and set up as you say and will be cheap.
i would agree he will take some of the heat off graham.
however, if he is worse than this season, and that is a possibility, then 12k a year, or however much he is on, is a waste of money

Not often you see a Saints fan admit that one





I can understand the Fozzard signing in the salary cap context but this...



...is still the funniest thing I've read all year

He's obsessed.