Why are so many people pinning their hopes on Lomax? Before his injuries he was a good player. Good, no outstanding, not great, not even very good and certainly not the second coming of Jonathon Thurston like so many on here think he is.

The poor lad will be a scapegoat within a month of his return

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King James

I have to disagree with you here. You are normally bang on but not with this. Ive watched us home and away for years and he certainly was never a player to just make things happen in the same way that Longy used to. Not trying to bag him as hes a good player, just no where near as good as the majority of Saints fans think he is

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King james

Longy was a 7 involved in the middle of the park , Jonny was fullback who drifts in and out the game.

Longy is the biggest match winner I've ever seen. The amount of games he's won for Saints is probably different level to any saints player in our history. He was a born match winner.

Lomax is/was the perfect modern day fullback. He's safe on kicks, good in defence, clears his line well, acts as the extra pivot and basically good all round.

Turner's not being helped by consistently picking him in the midfield. Right now he's just too heavy to play in the centres. I can't imagine Saints would allow him to play if he is consistently shoving cheeseburgers into his gut therefore there's been a conscious effort by the coaching team to bulk him up.

Turner's positives have always been good footwork, running dangerous lines and an eye for a gap. It's the reason he's scored such a high number of tries in SL. By putting an extra stone (or more) on the guy we've completely neutralised these strengths while further exacerbating his defensive issues.

I'd be interested to know what his try-scoring ratio is at centre vs other positions. I suspect it has dropped off a cliff recently.

KC tried him at 6 and looked pretty adamant he was staying at 6,,so why would they try and bulk him up to play 6?

I agree, it's not helped JT being messed around like KC has with him. Last year he was a centre, then he was dropped for few weeks, then he was bench player, then KC said he seen him as ball playing 13 like Sean O'Loughlin (funny as fu*k), then was moved to 6 this year. He's certainly been messed about but he's been rubbish at every position.

He's a out and out centre imo but a poor one. His whole defensive game is awful. He missed one on ones, he makes terrible reads and is soft as a bag of dog s*it.

I'd 100% cut him when he's off contract.