I cant see a way back for Foster at Saints.

I think we got excited about having an excellent goal kicker plus a try scoring winger.

However it looks like we now have an embarresment of potential goal kickers and young lads who can do his job on the wing.

Whats disappointed me the most with Rush (especially) and KC is that to me they haven't brought on the youngsters as much as Royce did and instead relied on the old guard considering Rush works with the youth.

If anything some promising players have gone backwards and the treatment of Gaskell in particular shocking.

I really dont want us to resign an ageing Meli AGAIN - BUT we cant replace him with our youth and we haven't lined anyone of superior quality ( for all the time he's been here)

KC and Rush were charged with steadying the ship. That they've done. Their team is winning, although we've been making bloody hard work of it the past month.

Whilst the kids need chances and senior players shouldn't be guarenteed a shirt on rep alone, they are better, the only realistic exception being Hohaia at 6 infront of Gaskell. The long term plan for #1 is a talking point, but Wello's been playing pretty well for us.

Interesting in hearing your thoughts on who these players are? The only one I think you could include is Dixon and I wouldn't necessarily disagree.

I'd argue that Foster and Gaskell had already gone pretty radically backwards in performance under Simmons in 2012 before losing their place in the side? They lost their place because they were playing badly enough to warrant it, they've struggled to regain their place because the team is winning. That's sport.

Good debut from the lad after an early mistake. If you watched the game you must have been pleased with his contribution.

Also if you watched the game you should be drooling at the though of having Manu in your team next year.

Sheer quality. I rate him and Hock as the two best back rowers in the league (and did long before we signed him) and I can't wait to have Manu in the vee.

I've always rated Manu from first time I seen him at cas.

Do you honestly believe this? Or are you just too stubborn and pig-headed to back down in an argument. If it is the latter, then fair enough, it is something we are all guilty of from time to time and I and presumably others would respect you far more if you admitted as much.

However, if you honestly believe that Foster's performances this season could be described as "not too bad" then you are losing any credibility you ever had, albeit very little. Any person with the slightest Rugby League knowledge would recognise that Foster was woeful in the games he played in this season. He was at fault for at least 5 tries off the top of my head, and probably more if I went and had a look.

Please, for your own sake, admit he has been terrible this season. If you insist on carrying on defending him then I fail to see how anyone could ever take you seriously again.

Being bundled into touch results in a scrum. What he did, bottling it and panicking, resulted in a try. Which would you prefer?

Another club is now chasing Jamie, that's three clubs wanting him for 2013.

He wants to stay but if one of these clubs throw the cash at him then IMO he will go.

In terms of whether or not I want him to stay, alot depends on what Wellens and Meli do. If those two stay then I see no place for Foster next year. However if one of them go then he would probably be needed as backup for when someone is injured. If both of them go and we sign nobody else then its a no-brainer, we have to keep him.

Hear bloody hear!

Wellens is definitely staying next year

I keep hearing that. Yet nothing has been announced. So until it is official, I don't think anyone can say definitively what he is going to do.

The horses mouth said so

McManus said so at the fans forum a few weeks back. He didn't say how long the contract would be, just that they would be offering him one.