Could be they have SC / image rights payments problems?

After all they maxed out with Sam and had to turn to sky for assistance to boost his salary.

How can he be at his fastest when he hasn't even developed fully? It'll be somewhere around 22/23 when his speed hits its peak (provided he doesn't add weight or pick up some injury).

As for the idea that sprint coaches cannot improve a player's basic speed - utter rubbish. Ask Doug Laughton how much speed Andy Currier gained after three months of sprint training. That bloke went from a reasonably quick centre/winger to someone who could go the entire length of the field without anyone gaining so much as a yard on him.

Graeme West once gave an interview in which he talked about the benefits of bringing in that 400m runner from Wigan whose name escapes me. IIRC, his entire back line clocked significantly faster times after one pre-season.

You are joking.

Sorry if this as been said.If we are after Smith? Is it to play S/H or S/O? If it's S/H? Where will Lomax play.

I'd be surprised if we let Gaskell go, for me when he bulks up he'd be an old school ball playing 13

Smith is a major step down from Finch for Wigan. Though the option is now there for them to move Tomkins back to Stand off playing next to him

I'd personally move Lomax to fullback for next season. I love Wellens, I really do but the role of a fullback as changed through the years. Lomax could do the kind of damage that Tomkins does at Wigan.

I'd use Hohaia as a hooker to give Roby a rest. We've had a lot of success at interchanging hookers in the past but we expect Roby to do the full stint now.

I really like Wheeler. If he could just stay fit I'd play him at 6. I'd like to keep Gaskell too.

We just need a clever scrum half. An organiser. He doesn't need to be lightning fast with an eye for running through a gap. He'll have players that can do that around him. Goulding was amazing at that. Not sure Matty Smith is the long term solution though but I'd have him at Saints tomorrow.

Hmmmm..

Never understood the negativity surrounding him. IMHO had much more to his game than Eastmond.

I didn't say we did sign them, but our coaching staff have improved them.

Heard a whisper last night he is coming to saints next year.

No negativity to him at all - he's a good, solid, honest pro who'll never let you down. The problem is that 2 of the biggest clubs in the game are now (apparently) having to fight over his signature when 10 years ago neither of us would have even considered him. From Long/Martyn/Sculthorpe/Smith/Farrell/Edwards/Paul/etc. to Matty Smith in a decade is a sad, sad sign of the times.



Oh, come on now... Let's not get silly...