TP will be at Warrington next year according to a current wire player

Does anyone know our overseas players situation next year?

If Graham flannery and TP leave we will need some experienced quality players to replace them.

With lance hohaia already signed mean we may have to replace them with English players and not many off contract worth taking.

For family reasons he wants to go home.

Current situation:

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola, Puletua.

Overseas Quota: Flannery, Perry.

Next Year (assuming Flannery and TP leave):

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola.

Overseas Quota: Perry, Hohaia.

As I understand you are allowed 5 of each, so we will have 3 quota spots and 3 overseas trained spots (Kolpak etc.).

Puletua will NOT be at Warrington next year. 2 year deal at Saints or a return home to the NRL is the current situation.

This sounds more like it as it chimes in with what has been said in the media.

Firstly, TP was offered a one year deal by Saints. TP asked for a two year deal. Saints offered him a two year deal. They had already given him compassionate leave during the off season to visit family and sort out some matters back home. He is now fannying about trying to sort out matters back home and giving Saints the runaround by the looks of it (TP didn't say it like that, obviously! He said he wanted to sort out matters at home and then hopefully he would be able to continue being at Saints)

I think the Warrington rumour has as much foundation as the one about James Graham a couple of seasons ago. For TP it will either be Saints or back home.

Personally, though, I'm getting totally bored of our players fannying about over their contracts. They are beginning to irritate me.

You need to keep in mind this is their lives and they are not breaking any rules. It can also work 2 ways, for instance and I'm speculating here but Leon Pryce is not having a great time injury wise at the moment, whats to say the club arnt fannying about with his potential contract offer to see i he makes a 100% recovery or if there's a better option on the market ?

I agree with saintsfan, the club should tell the players that have been offered new contracts that they need to make their minds up in the next two weeks. If we leave it any longer we will miss out on the quality players that are available.

From what I gather, saintsfan is correct, TP is giving the saints club the run around as I gather he's looking for a club in the NRL.

nothing wrong with 'timeboxing' contract offers but in that case Saints need to be strong and consistant....

The club must have a fair idea to who is leaving. I just hope we replace them with quality experienced players not go all out with youth.

I'm all for playing the young lads but the balance of youth and old heads needs to be right.

I get a feeling Lance is the first of a few signings , some of them will be forced with key players leaving but I think a couple would have been planned anyway if nothing else to boost season ticket sales for the move to the new stadium

Waterhouse for flannery would be great business by saints. Waterhouse is top quality hard working 2nd row.

I'd be very happy if we pull that off.