We were told that Saints plan to hold one every 5 or 6 weeks.

No red cabbage? Scandalous! Glad I didn't go now. What were the pickle/relish options?

Seriously, thanks for reporting back for the benefit of those of us who didn't go.

Some red stuff and some brown stuff! You can tell the events team is run by a company owned by an Australian outfit. No idea about how a hotpot is supposed to be served!

Mind you the hotpot itself was bloody gorgeous. Just needed that red cabbage to make it perfect ...

Great stuff.

I love to see the club having such open communication with the fans, so refreshing. When this is done in such an informal and entertaining way, it's the best of both worlds.

Top marks, Big Mac.

I'm going to go to the next one. They probably won't hold another after that.

If Wellens is going to be used as a back up player then the deal is OK. If he is going to be our first choice FB for another 2 years then no, the deal is not OK. It's far from OK...

I'd love to see Sean Long at one of the future ones hopefully with them being held so often he may get a call.L

That would be very difficult whilst he is still employed by Salford I would expect.

Not really it's only questions and he wont have to give anything away about Salford. Steve Hampson was at the last one I went to so I don't think it would be that much of a problem.

Another interesting point that DA brought up was the increase in salary cap for the NRL and what it means. The financial power of the NRL will be a HUGE problem for us as the debut year academy players will be on 50k and the big names like Smith, Cronk, Thurston will be somewhere around the million mark. He also went into detail about why they are much better than us in Aus and how he bugged McManus for ages to get training facilities similar to the NRL to be able to compete at the top level.

McManus told us his view on the financial state of the game and how it can be solved and gave some hints about the next chief executive who can take the game to a new level.

Anything said about who will be Brown's No2?

I thought when Brown was announced it was also announced that KC would be no2?

Nah , Gilly was at one of Ade's earlier in the year

Can Saints fans see Cunningham doing a few years as an assistant then getting the coaching job like Shaun Wane did?

Surely you told us all 2 weeks ago what was said at the fans forum?

Good grief. With Jones and swift joining the ranks, we have raft of talented youngsters who we're holding back in the name of sentimentality.