and it has my friend, i am certainly miffed that he has turned my club down but what the heck it bodes well for england, and i too watched lomax just as i have watched young jack fom under 9's onward but believe me this lad is better...........you lucky shower.

I don't know what the fook you are on but there was no sarcasm anywhere at all in my post.

and now i will give you another youngster from the under 9's i have picked up, keiron marsh from thatto heath,

I can understand the thrill. For all that there are a lot of good children out there, seeing a natural talent is a relative rarity in whatever field and to see someone able to do whatever is asked of them as naturally as breathing just gives a fantastic buzz.

not sarcastic, just an honest appraisal of a young and extremely talented player...................like i said lucky saints.

No, I wasn't replying to you! I was replying to the other guy.

and so it should i love watching the junior game and i will now now make this statement..........."if this lad does not make it i will bare my on lime street"

this lad cant sign for a pro contrat to he is 16 so by then is might go were the best money is or who is the best team at the time so saints could train this lad up till he is 16 then he signs for wigan

You are relating a child throwing paint in a reception class to whether a rugby player has the ability to make it as a top player (indeed, better than some of the best players in the country at present), or in your example that it relates to their genetic potential as a cricketer. That is stretching the bounds of logic to its very limits.

For every Johnny Lomax and Sam Tomkins there is a Jonathon Thurston, who even at the age of 18 was rejected by almost every club for to play for free. This is a player who was at one point considered the best in the world, but didn't even come close to achieving his genetic potential until his early twenties.

I did hear that his reception teacher said he was belting at throwing paintballs though, maybe we should have seen it coming.

Yeah. Saints could also sign this guy up at 16, he goes on to help win/get to Grand Finals and Challenge Cups, gets a man of steel award and then buggers off to the NRL! That doesn't mean Saints shouldn't track and sign up talented players.

believe me mate whatever any other team offer we will improve on...................