Ditto. I'll be first in line behind Blobby and his crew the next time they storm the Director's box though!

#newstadiumriotsnextseason

Maybe your right, but I'll wait and see. There is nothing more painful than watching a team without direction , it's normally dull and more often than not involves a good kicking. I've played in teams with no recognised halves and it's horrible as a forward.

I like everyone else with a brain know that you cant do much with players out of contract if they dont want another one however you can recruit PROPER replacements. Hohaia IS NOT A HALFBACK anymore than gardner is a prop. If we had an established halfback then the risk of recruiting a fullback then converting him would be lessened, like when we brought in Leon to partner Longy .. this is not the case. I think the recruitment strategy is at best high risk at worst a total and utter disaster.

Ok. So Hohaia was lying on his interview with Radio Murkeyside then? Have you listened to it yet?

Never mind about lance and what position he plays or would like to play ,he was coming before this announcement, so is not a replacement.

Unless you are really Andy Coulson it is not possible to put a positive spin on another one of top players leaving us. The quality of the squad is going backwards - we are going to be also rans for next season.

I dont honestly care what he says. He plays FB for NZ and the Warriors not 6 or 7 . End of really.

As for his kicking game I hope he has alot more in his locker than a chip and chase, we need someone capable of pinning teams back or getting us out of jail like Deacon does for Wigan etc

No I suspect he wasn't lying. Then again neither were Darren Bloor, Gus O'Donnell, Scott Moore, Matty Smith or indeed Jonny Lomax but that doesn't make them specialist halves either. I think you are (mischievously I suspect ) avoiding the issue.

Hohaia is not a halfback. He may have been once but then that begs a different question......if that's his hot position and has been all along then why has he not played there for 4 years? If the answer is that there were other, better HB's in fornt of him at NZW, then he would have had plenty of opportunities at other Clubs. Souths go through halves like they're out of fashion but no NRL club was chasing Lance to play at half. That's a fact.

I would suggest you are being selectively blind or deaf. When Kyle announced his decision to leave, Lance was recruited. Replacement for 7. Leon is 6. We have Wheeler, Lomax and Gaskell who all play at 6. We only need one experienced halfback and no matter how many times No.1 Saints repeats what he does, Lance is an experienced halfback, but at 6. Royce has already enabled Jonny Lomax to give it a go at 7; I'm quite sure he could educate an experienced player like Lance Hohaia in the finer arts of feeding the bloody scrum.

Oh, and the sarky comments about his chip kicks are silly, No.1 Saint. That is what I have seen him do, as I wrote. Not all that he can do. I have no idea what other kicks he can do. I was just excited by the fact that he could 'chip over the top' and regather - something I haven't seen a Saints player do for years. Scuse me for allowing the small things in life to make me happy.

No he isnt. He may have played the odd game there but that does not qualify him as 'experienced'. In fact I bet Lomax has played more games in the halves than him




And there lies the problem. Oh next seaon should be fun when we cant get over the half way line when we play a set out of our own 20 under pressure.

got to love saintsfan and her 'fingers in the ears la la la i cant hear anything youre saying' approach.

Am I the only one who can see we are doing it on the cheap?

I've been saying it for 3 years. We've lost our ambition to win things and now looking fir cheap option signings.

I've got a great deal of respect for sir mac but he's gone down a little in my eye now. He's come out in public a number of times saying we will have a team to grace the new stadium, obviously that's lies. He should just be honest and say, we are broke and doing best we can with what little money we've got.

The great names that have left this club over the last few years and never been replaced.

I wonder what sort of impact Losing Graham, pryce and eastmond will have on season ticket sales?

I've just signed up for another year but now I've starting have I done the cottrect thing.

Yes. But that's because you live on your own little planet, Pete. It's called delusion.

Strange about Radio Merseyside; players quite often say things that later turn out to be a little different.
e.g. Leon on 20/01/11Pryce told BBC Radio MerseysideI'm not going anywhere, but a contract has to be offered to me, just like it has to four or five other players.

"It's just the natural process when your contract comes to an end." '"