I personally cannot see Leon staying.

I think it will be Hohaia with one of the young lads playing alongside him at half back.

On saints site, Royce says lance will used at halfback.

Does he have a kicking game? And by that I mean a PROPER kicking game?

Saints do like there utility players

I'm not 100% sure but my only concern about him playing in the halves is his lack of playing there over the last two years.

I recall call him having a cracker at fullback against the Aussies last year ( I think). I'm pretty sure he went about. 80 meters for a try and got man of the match.

He's deceptively quick, that's for sure. A certain well known video hosting website has a clip of him scoring an absolute belter from 60 yards against the Broncos last year.

Brilliant signing, looking forward to seeing him play. Well done.

where the did this come from? it just exploded this morning! Sir Mac pulls another rabbit from the hat! and on a 4 year deal too.

Kyle Eastmond.


Form is up and down. In the NRL they are awash with options and so can drop an out of form player. We don't have that luxury over here really. He could be a dud or he could be a find. We won't know until he's over here. So long as he isn't bloody injured!

Obviously a quality player but my only concern is signing a "utility" player to play in a specialist position. Michael Monaghan a classic example, Wires signed him as a 9 who can play 7 and it took them a season of shuffling around to realise he wasn't a 7 after all and had to spend big to bring in Myler.

If you put together a list of players you wanted to replace Kyle I bet he wouldn't have been in your top 10. That's why it's come out of left field. I'm sure he will be a big success in SL, just hope that he will be playing 7 for all of 4 years we have signed him for.

Overall, good bit of business I think.

Chase and Hohaia to partner at 6 & 7 next season?

I think the form of Lomax in particular combined with this signing means Leon will be moving on at the end of the year
J-Lo and L-Ho combination at halfback !

A fantastic signing, but I think this says a lot about the quality (or lack of) current halves that are available at the minute.

I've never really liked him - remember him stinking the place out in the 3-0 series with GB and thinking he was a terrible player.

Has improved since, mind, and pretty much everyone was awful in that series!

Quality Fullback... Hold on, we already have a Fullback



Would of prefered Rangi Chase, time will tell..

But looks like Darren Anderton is leaving then. Cheaper Blue Wicked in Bradford

What do we all think our 1,6,7,13 combination will be next year then?

I think it will be wellens, hohaia, lomax, wilkin but would also like to see hohaia, pryce, lomax, wilkin, although I would hate to see wellens go and his form this year has been superb. There are some hard decisions to be made I think. Although the club could have decisions made for them by players leaving.

We are all entitled to our opinions, but you have got to be kidding.

As a signing he's undoubtedly a quality signing but as a half back I'm not so sure.

I was hoping we could develop the young talent we had and have a half back pairing for the next 10 years.

Will this means one of Lomaskell will move on or will Wello or ANOther get the boot?

So in short I don't feel this is a great signing for us! Only time will tell.

He's a fullback and a very good one. As a half he's very ordinary in my opinion.

Play him at fullback in place of Wellens and continue developing the Lomax/Gaskell partnership.

For a pie you talk sense

With Pryce and Eastmond on the move. We will be left with just Lomax and Gaskell ( I think Wheeler is targeted at centre now).

So 2 half backs next year will leave us a little exposed. I think Lance with add experience and cover there. Then after 2 years, Wellens may or may not retire. If he does then Lance will easily slot into the fullback role.


Players get injured, so I can see a Lance Lomax main partnership for 2 years, with Gaskell providing cover and getting the drip feed into the team that Lomax and Gaskell got. Then after 2 years Gaskell will be up for renewal, if he has made it he can step up and take Lances spot and Lance may move to fullback to cover a possible retiring Wellens at that point.

That's the way I would read it. Not a rejection of the young half backs but putting the plan back into place that went out the window with Eastmond and Pryce leaving.

You heard something about Pryce that we haven't?

He hasn't played in the halves for years so i'm not sure why Royce would want to play him there next year.

Because we are short on halves.

I'm sure I just read that he played at halfback only recently, this season, and had a stormer? Fullbacks and halfbacks often play similar roles so if he comes over early enough to get a full off season with us then he should be able to adapt and offer something to us that we don't have at present.

I think Pryce will leave, Hohaia and Lomax doesnt sound too bad!

Also he's really fast, not something we're particularly used to in these parts, but by next year we could have the fastest halfbacks in the league!