Is it happening was that tweet real ?

Just noticed that Jonah Cunningham (saints reserves hooker and keirons lad) has just started following vatuvei on twitter. Yes i know twitter and yes it be because he has seen the reports linking him but surely keiron would tell him if it was a goer or not ?

just seen it hmmmmmmmmmmm

Can he come now? I reckon if we set up a crowdfunder, all the Saints fans would chip in enough for his airfare!

Get him over. Our first big winger since Meli. All we need then is a decent centre to pass him the ball, and we might start looking like a Saints team again.

Don't forget there is another rugby league side with the same hashtags who play in a better country than ours in a better competition. How confident are we that it's us?

Are we happy with this signing? Despite his undeniable pedigree he's a player who at the end of the day isn't performing well enough to be playing in the NRL. Motivation will be key, get him fired up and we'll have a good signing, but he'll need to be more professional here than it seems he has been at NZW.

And if he has leaked the signing himself, McManus will be soooooooo annoyed. This would no doubt have been his big on field announcement signing when season ticket renewals were opened.

He had problems last season and was made the sacrifice why? though when there seemed to be others involved, another European holiday hope not.

We need other positions more then a winger imo

Us spending presumably big money on him is like buying a new flash car when you already have a car and the kids are starving. There are other areas that should be priorities. We need a centre, a hooker and at least 2 forwards. We're either wasting a bunch of our cap on a 30 year old winger who will play for us for 2 or 3 years or we're going to turn him into a centre instead of signing a specialised centre which for me would be another mistake.

It seems incredibly short term thinking and just signing a name for the sake of it. I'd be very disappointed if we were to let one of Swift or Makinson go (who could be our wingers for the next 5 years) when neither are a major issue just to sign this fella.

We need several things, but IMO a big winger is one of them. Vatuvei is about as good as we could get in that category.

Will he get any ball?

I think we do need a winger but imo a top quality centre, a top quality 7 and two forwards are needed much more than a winger

So long as it is quality they can sign who they like.

Great opening analogy. Spot On.

Classic Saints Panic Buy. Wrong on so many levels.

Agents must wet themselves when the phone rings and its Saints.

I disagree. One of the reasons (not the only one) our forwards are getting smashed is that our tiny back three keep getting sat on their behinds on the first 2-3 tackles. Our sets aren't getting started. Having a winger like Vatuvei would go a long way to changing that IMO. Then that has a knock on (excuse the probably quite apt pun) effect: win the contact in the early tackles and you get quicker play the balls, meaning more opportunity to move the ball.

Also, there's no reason why we can't sign Vatuvei and sign other players too.

Exactly a signing we need. Our wingers are too powder puff and just cannot get us out of our own 20 to give us some momentum on kick returns.

Regards

King james

my priority would be hooker to spell Roby above all else.
Big winger would be welcome, but I think a top centre would be priority over winger especially with the man of steel contender Owens now playing on the wing

The Mole says - no chance of him signing for St Helens.

We will probably end up with Tom Armstrong or another championship standard player