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Quote: Noel Cleal "
I suspect that Brown will have a shack up regardless of the player movements. I would suspect that Greenwood, Forster, Gaskell and Ashe will get runs next year. I would not say that Percival is out of the question for a game or two. He is not physically up to Super League yet but neither was Scott Moore when Milward played him against Wigan aged 16. I just feel it is the sort of thing a coach like Brown would do.'"


I would rather give these kids a run in the side instead of signing over the hill journey men looking for a big fat pay check at the end of there careers. Some of the youngsters coming through at many Super League clubs dont get a chance to shine and is it any wonder they go away from the game? Greenwood, Forster and Ashe are due for a run in the side when the chance arises. This way of doing things has benefited Wigan and Leeds even more so. Thats the way forward.

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Quote: Northampton_Saint "No team relying on home-grown players and ignoring Antipodean talent could ever hope to compete at the top of SL. A balance is needed and Saints generally do that balancing a lot better than most.

Oh look - we're finishing 3rd in the table despite no coaching worthy of the name for 2 years. Maybe you're right - maybe our player recruitment really does suck big time, eh? We'd have finished top easy if we'd binned off Sia, TP, Flannery, Meli, Hohaia and got in a bunch of Blackbrook and Tatty Heath amateurs instead wouldn't we?'"


I wouldnt class Sia Soliola, Lance Hohaia as over the hill players. Im all for blending youth with experience.

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Quote: on_the_charge "I wouldnt class Sia Soliola, Lance Hohaia as over the hill players. Im all for blending youth with experience.'"


Ages of the our current overseas players when we signed them:

Soliola - 24
Meli - 26
Hohaia - 28
Perry - 30
TP - 28
Flannery - 27
Frankie - 31

Which of these would you consider the kind of over-the-hill, clapped out, past-it players that we should be avoiding the signing of and instead be recruiting non-existent, equivalent quality, unsigned young British talent instead? Only Perry and Frankie were 30+ when we signed them, and 30 and 31 is hardly "past it" for recent Aussie international forwards.

Once again, those inconvenient facts disprove the knee-jerk reactionism. Curse them.

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Quote: Saddened! "Why on earth would we do that? He's already 21 isn't he? Which would mean he was 23 with absolutely no Super League experience when he returned. Seems a rather silly way to do things.'"


No idea. I thought it was a bit strange when I was told but I suppose he is very young for a prop and shouldn't hit his peak for another 5 years at least. The main thing for me though is that we seem to be in the market for the kind of players we need for a change.

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Quote: Northampton_Saint "Ages of the our current overseas players when we signed them

I wouldn't say we've signed over the hill overseas players, we've just signed overseas players to play in the wrong positions. TP was signed as a back rower and has played the majority of time at prop (until this year), Soliola was signed as a Centre, Laffranchi is a back rower converted to a prop and Hohaia is never a half back. Only Meli, Flannery and Perry have consistently played in their regular positions (and bar Perry, both were signed several eyars ago). Our recruitment decisions the last few years have been poor particularly overseas players.

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Quote: St pete "Totally agree!

Do you want to join mine and saddened club? We seem the only ones that can see how poor our recruitment and retention has been for past 5/6 years.'"


Yes please. As long as your clubhouse has cladding.

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