Hooper was an underrated player though. He was better in the back row than at 6, but he had an awful lot of guile and steel - when we started to lose players like him, Talau and Scully, our trophies started to dry up.

If he'd stayed we would probably not have picked up Longy from Widnes. I'm happy with the deal we got thanks.

Spot on , you always need that Steel and guile to go along with the flair in a team. Obviously it's better if you can find a player with everything like Scully but those players are few and far between.

Me too. Long is twice the player that Briers was/is.

The way Briers was treated by St Helens was a disgrace!

Do you mean by picking the best scrum half in super league before lee?

Bobbie Goulding at the time was Mr St. Helens. He was by far the best halfback in super league and arguably the best in the world at that time!

I would have done the same thing and picked Bobbie because he was our best player.

Any team in the League would have done what Saints did. Briers was unlucky , especially not to make the travelling squad but that's life. I wish we had a player like Goulding now.

Do you practice being a plonker or does it come naturally? Your dislike and obsession of Saints would be understandable if you were a pie eater but your worse than that, your a turncoat.

Bog off to the London board and keep the tumble-weeds company