Any chance of a late swoop by another club and this is the agent trying to get the price up??

If the signing is true I wonder if Walshy had any influence on his decision to come to the Saints.

Burns would be a great signing, but I hope this doesn't mean Hohaia is going. I have a niggling feeling that Walsh will be heading home, having two natural halfbacks today is too good to be true!

I'd imagine the chances of Walsh being signed before a decent showing at Saints is now close to nil.

No one will want to put big money on a half with a serious injury.

So we will have him for at least one more year. Maybe 2 depending on how the NRL clubs contracts go. They will be looking for 2016 halfbacks midway through 2015. So Walsh may not even have stepped on the pitch by then.

As a HKR supporter I will be sorry to see Travis go to the Saints but business is business another one will come out of the woodwork as did Burns We got the same amount for. Blake. Green when he went toWigan
We have let 3 players go now Burns Hodgy and Hall Ireckon over £240K in the Joseph rank add on the wages they were on I think that would be well over half million to play with. Ok we may have lost these player but they did not do us that much good we are still 9 th in the comp lets hope we get 3 players that will take us up the ladder

Here here.

100k for Burns plus 100k for Hodgson doesn't add up to 240k pal.

Plus £40k for Hall smart

So ... Whats the hold up?

Yo momma so fat she got stuck going through the door. Now everyone has to wait.









Sorry.

Probably personal terms.

I will be happy if saints sign burns, but the disappointing thing is that Saints have been scouring the globe for years for a decent hb without success (apart from Walsh) yet HKR can unearth these players and then sell them on for a profit. Is our scouting system missing these players? Will we shell out £100k and then see HKR sign another number 6 effectively for free?

I think our hb recruitment has been years behing where it should be due to the unforseeable situations that happened with Eastmond, Wheeler, Gaskell and even to a degree Lomax. Its reasonable that we expected at least 1 of those to be our regular hb, but it just didnt happen for a variety of reasons.
It's still my (and i know its not a popular option) opinion that we should have kept Matty Smith. No he's not an out and out superstar, but he's extremely consistant, consumate pro and doesn't get injured.

Even now, we'd expect one of Richardson, Hewitt and Charnock to break through and make a grab for a hb shirt.

I suppose this is the downside of having a successful academy ... If we had recruited someone in thered be those complaining we never gave the likes of Wheeler and Gaskell a chance. Its a delicate balance...

No one in there right mind would have kept smith over Eastmond.
However, we should have kept him over Scott Moore, who was a real waste of space. Smith would have been a good interchange hooker/squad half back.