Carl Forster will be back in a couple of weeks, he'll get a go before Jordan Hand. Although Hand is quite good, Forster is twice the player and is a very good prospect. He was unlucky to get a bad shoulder injury ruling him out for a few months.

I'd rather stick than bring any old garbage in......I really thought we may get Chris Hill but the Warrington Banking Corp has struck again.

The injuries are expected when you play for Saints its written in the contracts

Is it still legal for clubs to bring in ringers from the NRL for the play-offs i.e. Johns, Morley etc a few seasons ago?

a live cap should make it nearly impossible

our quotas full, surely they wouldn't go through the trouble of de-registering players and giving out hefty wads of cash to let some NRL players try and win us something when they dont want to play for the club.

Stupid as it sounds I'd rather watch use play with passion and lose every week than win with a bunch of 'all-stars' who have no passion for the club

The club has no ambition to win anymore. The board's focus over the last few years has been Project Stadium and ensuring the club has a future. It's an admirable strategy really and testament to the coaches we've had that we've remained competitive up to now. But it's over as far as winning trophies goes, probably for a good few years as well. We don't have enough quality senior players in the side and next season we'll only really have Roby, Wilkin and Puletua that are top class players. Our pack will be beaten by all the top sides and we've still not sorted the fullback and wing positions which adds to us having only one centre since Talau left.

It'll be interesting to see whether the focus ever switches back to winning trophies again. I must admit I cringed or rather winced when Colquitt insisted we're spending to the limit of the salary cap last week. If that's true we're doing really poorly.

Spot on mate, that's exactly what I've been saying. I think the club still has ambition to win things but trying to do it cheap.

While the stadium has secured our future it's just a shame it's come at such a cost to the team.

The one centre situation is shocking by the club. In all the recruitment has been awful over the last 5 years. We've still brought some good players in like TP, sia, perry, shenton and lms but it's the lack of strike players, x factor players that's put us out the top 3.

Jeez. Saddened! and Pete should get a room. They can then drink each other into a vortex of depression and gloom, and leave the rest of us to hold on to some hope!

Only if your team's name is Warrington

Well we seem to be doing fine with the youth at the minute. Running fourth in the comp, with a possibility of catching third, maybe second. We're in the quarters of the Challenge cup. Doesn't seem to bad to me. I think it was Alan Hansen who said you never win anything with youth, I think Sir Alex and the lads proved that is not the case. Lets just wait and see how it goes before we cast off these youngsters as not good enough to wear the red Vee

I was about to disagree with you and then spotted the Flannery re-signs thread.

Now I can understand your thinking

Physical maturity plays a much bigger part in RL, though. Too many kids (unless they're physical freaks) in one squad mean they'll just get pushed off the park.