Quote: SaintsFan "I know he gave the reason. My response was specific to the poster I was responding to, who seemed to be saying that Connolly's tale was one of him being hard done to.
However, he had already chosen to go to Australia in the off season and was contemplating a career with them. That doesn't sound like someone who was sure about playing for Saints.
I wasn't following Saints when he was playing so I don't know what the rest of the team were like. Were they all rubbish and Connolly our only good player?'"
Well I remember it all well and a family member of mine is good mates with Gary, he was sold and told to leave. He was on a crap contract at Saints and Wigan offered him a good deal. So in short if the best team in the country (maybe even the world at the time) offered you alot more money and your current club said sod off we dont want you what would you do?
We had a decent team but selling him left a big gap. Newlove replaced Loughlin not Connolly.