Apparantly been offers big money by a premiership team. Dreadful news if true.

Source - Steve Ganson

He was prob pi$$ed

He was crap anyway.

Next....

Union will be sniffing around alot of League talent so we better just get used to it. Lomax from what I understand is a massive Saints fan and is doing what he's always wanted to do .. play for Saints. If money is or becomes his motivation then there is sod all we could do to keep him as even without a salary cap we couldnt match a union offer... or NRL for that matter

I think he'll be a saint for at least 3 seasons

I agree but I think that's because of his love for the club and not much to do with a contract.

You never know, he might sign a new deal soon.

I've said it for years - the talent drain from league to union is only going to increase more and more over time. There's nothing we can do about it sadly - all we can do is get as much mileage as we can out of players like Lomax, maybe make a transfer fee out of them when they get poached and then be there ready to snap them back up again when they fail in t'other code (as most of them have done in the past and will do in future).

And we are taking seriously a poster who has posted all of 15 posts?

I suspect we have been visited by a creature living under a bridge on the other side of the Lump myself ...

Well it won't be anytime soon, I can say that for certain.

The Unionistas would be mad to at least not look at him, but like kyle, i cant see were he'd fit into a Union side. He's a good, but not union standard kicker, hes fast but not union winger or full back fast, He's a very skillful league halfback, but union is a very different game in the halves.
Hope he'll stay with us for his entire career

Agreed it is a big gamble, a union club going for a league halfback, the playmaker roles are very different. In league there isn't a massive difference between 6 and 7, in the last 10 years or so the way league has gone has mainly been with one halfback on each side of the pitch, or having one organising/kicking halfback (Long) and one running type halfback (Pryce). Union tends to have a very distinct job for scrum-half, fly-half and then the current fashion is to play a second fly-half at outside centre. Henry Paul and Iestyn Harris ended up being the centre. The one who has settled into a union fly-half role is Stephen Myler, whose more kicking oriented game is better suited to union than league anyway.

I reckon Eastmond will be back after a season or two but one common denominator between all the ex league players who went to union and then came back, is none of them have been as successful in league second time around.