It does seem as though he might be angling for a move back to League. He's been conversing with a lot of the former Saints players on twitter a lot and commenting on league news all the time, which he didn't do for the first 6-9 months of his time in Bath.

If he comes back to league we will regret it, he would be easily the most talented scrum half in SL. He probably wouldn't come back to Saints because of how our knuckle dragging fans behaved towards him, when he did very little wrong. He was young, naive and had his head turned, hardly the actions of a criminal. I for one would welcome him back with open arms.

Well at least the rfl can breath a sigh of relief. If eastmond is failing there then Tomkins wouldn't even start; we all remember people saying eastmond was the true talent over Sam, don't we?

On a serious note, you'd be a fool not to snap him up if he comes back. Was, is and will be a great rugby player.

Seriously a thread on Eastmond, a player who has not played for Saints for 2 years????

You would think it was the offseason, not the last knockout game before the GF.

It's actually a good sign that saints are going about their business in a quiet way with no controversy, unlike the tone that eastmond was here. Could have been a good player but hasn't ever proved it. Good move by saints to get the sick note off our salary cap

Eastmond inevitably in a Wigan or Warrington shirt in a couple of years' time is a recurring nightmare of mine... There isn't a young half-back talent even remotely in his league in our game right now and we'll be cursing the way certain sections of our numpty fan brigade have made it nigh impossible for him ever to return to Saints for as very long time to come.

I notice he's been tweeting a lot about Saints lately - he obviously still keeps an active interest in the game and the club.

It's a real shame the way it panned out. I'm with Saddened on this one. Obviously he didn't become the RL player he might have become, but in terms of phenomenal raw ability at a young age the only Saints product in my time that matches him is Cunningham.

He does seem to have this ongoing problem with injuries and/or being a bit soft, which may stop him becoming a great player in either code, but if he can get over that he will be special. The only way I can see him ending up back in league, though, is if he continues to struggle with his fitness and Bath decide to cut their losses, so it would be a major gamble for whichever club went for him.

Erm, Sam Tomkins.

On that try, I think I could have scored that. I've experienced more determined tackling at school.

Tomkins hardly qualifies as a half these days - Eastmond has/had far more ability/potential in the halves than Tomkins.

Eastmond was on a night out round town the other week. So he's not exactly wiped his time here from his memory

No he hasn't.