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| Dean Sampson: International quality wasted at Cas. Just like Kevin Ward.
Iestyn Harris: Furious when he went to Leeds, guess Scully was a good secong prize 
Henry Paul: Murdered us @ Wakefield as a teenager. We should have signed him after but he had a contract to play the year after for the Auckland Warriors. As we are not a scummy club we respected that. We could have signed him instead of Bradford later in his career also.
Jamie Peacock: Unhappy at Bradford we should have got him to Saints. Has won Leeds 4 league titles against us on his own. |
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Overseas: Jonah Lomu - came near to fruition back in the day (if rumours were to be believed) and I would have loved to have seen how hed've gone in a Saints shirt. Of course he might have been a complete flop, and the life-threatening/career-limiting illness he had later would've been a major bummer, but it would have been fun to watch nevertheless. And it's nice to reminisce about the good old days when we poached RU players and not the other way round....
UK: Morley or Peacock - either/both would have done nicely over the last decade.
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UK - Ellery Hanley
Oz - Laurie Daley
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Morley
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Robinson (Jason)
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Danie gerber - could have been the new vollenhoven instead languished in south African obscurity in the apartheid years
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Jamie Peacock/Gareth Ellis
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| Quote: cjhatesunion "UK - Ellery Hanley
Overseas - Brett Kenny'"
No surprises there Colin 
SL era:
Darren Lockyer (overseas)
Stuart Fielden (British; the dynamic Bradford version)
All-time:
Darren Lockyer (overseas)
Andy Goodway (British) |
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| Quote: nickcat0 "Quote: nickcat0 "UK - Ellery Hanley
Overseas - Brett Kenny'"
No surprises there Colin ![]()
Aye my favourite two players of all time with the Black Pearl number one of course. 
I see you are still creaming over Lockyer then Nick. 
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[quote="Deano G":wqb36lm9]Come to think of it, that Saints side (1992/93) was a better side than the 2006 side and the 2009 side.[/quote:wqb36lm9]: |
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Some fantastic players mentioned already......
Overseas: Gordon Tallis
UK: Keith Senior (was gutted when he signed for Leeds from Sheffield)
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Ricky Stuart was the one guy I wanted us to get. We were always desperate for a play making scrum half and I think he signed only to break his arm and not come over. It was very disappointing not to see in the Red V.
As for UK players it has to be Martin Offiah doesn't it? Hanley may have been the better player but in the days before defending Offiah was an excitement machine and loved to entertain, which is a severely underrated quality.
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| Quote: Noel Cleal "Dean Sampson. We should have signed him after but he had a contract to play the year after for the Auckland Warriors. As we are not a scummy club we respected that. We could have signed him instead of Bradford later in his career also.
Jamie Peacock
Henry Paul would be one of my choices, I was at that game at Belle Vue, they moved him from full back to stand off and he cut us to pieces, definately a class act.
Just to be different it would have been good to see Jonathon Davies in a Saints shirt.
It was always rumoured that he would sign for us but Widnes pipped us to it.
I don't rate him as a TV expert but again a class act on the field.
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| Quote: SAINTS57 "Just to be different it would have been good to see Jonathon Davies in a Saints shirt.
It was always rumoured that he would sign for us but Widnes pipped us to it.
I don't rate him as a TV expert but again a class act on the field.'"
It was apparently the way the Saints board ostracised Alex Murphy during discussions with him that made him sign for Widnes - he didn't want anything to do with a club who valued their manager so little. |
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| Quote: Northampton_Saint "It was apparently the way the Saints board ostracised Alex Murphy during discussions with him that made him sign for Widnes - he didn't want anything to do with a club who valued their manager so little.'"
The one we heard at the time was he had pen in hand but needed a bit more time to think so went back to Wales and on the way back Paul Moriarty talked him out of it.How true this version is I don't know.
Ironically Moriarty signed for Widnes not long after too.
Remember ringing Saints newsline (that was our only way of accessing club info back in 1988!) and Stuart Pyke announcing he'd turned us down and signed for Widnes-was well gutted! |
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| Quote: Tuco "The one we heard at the time was he had pen in hand but needed a bit more time to think so went back to Wales and on the way back Paul Moriarty talked him out of it.How true this version is I don't know.
Ironically Moriarty signed for Widnes not long after too.
Remember ringing Saints newsline (that was our only way of accessing club info back in 1988!) and Stuart Pyke announcing he'd turned us down and signed for Widnes-was well gutted!'"
Dougie Laughton told a different story at one of the SPF panel nights. |
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