Saints are looking to offload burns to sign a quality hooker to work alongside roby.

Also signing a quality young nrl winger next season.
if makinson gets back to his best there should be very healhy competition for the wing spots with swift

A quality hooker?

Are we in for Danny Houghton? Or Josh Hodgson?

We need to make sure we don't sign a "midget" winger, very fast 6 footer with some timber is long overdue.

Agreed. Enough of a back line made up of umpah lumpahs.

Pelissier? I think he'd work quite well with Roby - Can't see Hodgson coming back any time soon, and I think Houghton's too similar to Roby.

As for the NRL winger its an interesting one. No names jump out in the Aussie Out of Contract list wingers wise, and we're probably going to face a lot of competition from Wigan since they've supposedly missed out on Carney - we might be better going after Hall or Mcgilvary with the threat of relegation hanging over their clubs

Fact or roumor ?

Aye. I'd imagine Hull would throw big bucks at Houghton to keep him, as well. I'd imagine it would be a young up-and-comer or a decent pro who's not quite top drawer (like, say, Shaun Lunt).

Burgess would be odds on to return to Wigan with Wane's "Prodigal Son's Club"

Burns is out of contract surely? We should be trying to get rid of him but not sure who would pick him up at this stage of his career.

If we've some money to spend we couldn't do much better than the kid Johnstone from Wakefield. Carney would have to come into consideration too, we are crying out for size and speed. Young Spedding looks to fit into the tiny mould of all our existing outside backs unfortunately.

Surely the only NRL wingers that would come over here are the English ones, anyone with an ounce of potential is much better off staying over there.

I know; I was just thinking how funny it would be more than anything else.

Greg Eden is another who could potentially come back, but I'm not sure I'd put him in the 'quality NRL winger' category.

Burns's contract runs to 2017, apparently.

Quote: Dux "Burns's contract runs to 2017, apparently.'" www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/sport ... -1-6852919 Joe Burgess would be amusing, if unlikely - he'd be foolish to only give it a year imo. Carney has signed a 3 year deal with Salford apparently, Johnstone won't be going anywhere as he is favourite son at the moment and the Wakefield chairman is good at digging his heels in (see Kirmond). All in all it makes Eden look like a decent option We could always stick to the small, fast winger plan and just stop sending them to trundle the ball forward like a prop ...

Quote: Dux "Burns's contract runs to 2017, apparently.'" www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/sport ... -1-6852919 Joe Burgess would be amusing, if unlikely - he'd be foolish to only give it a year imo. Carney has signed a 3 year deal with Salford apparently, Johnstone won't be going anywhere as he is favourite son at the moment and the Wakefield chairman is good at digging his heels in (see Kirmond). All in all it makes Eden look like a decent option We could always stick to the small, fast winger plan and just stop sending them to trundle the ball forward like a prop ...

Could we throw good money at one of the big Kiwi/Samoan backs?

That was not the news I was looking for. Feels like he's been here forever already, wouldn't blame him if he stuck his heels in for another year.