I know for a fact he found the traveling a pain. Playing Friday night wasn't good for him either as he went home after games.

He had a penthouse in Sunny Parr

Then like the rest of us in that situation they could have moved somewhere half way between. Issues like this irritate me, St Helens hasn't suddenly moved further away from Cas than it was before he signed so it can't really have come as a surprise.

No but to be fair to him you dont know till you try sometimes. It's not a commute I'd fancy and it's not like these guys are on silly money

Everyone is different. He probably thought it would not be too big an issue. But when your working day is extended by 4 hours everyday, by a commute. You can see it taking it's toll.

If he had a young family, that kind of thing has a real impact. I've no idea what his wifes job is, it would be arrogant to think they can just up and move with him. She could be pulling down £40k - £100,000 a year for a career that will last 40 years rather than a ten year career.

He gave it a go and gave it his best and when it did not work he did not moan or complain or make it difficult. He took a chance to move back. Have a lot of respect for the fella.

His wife was and is a maths teacher at a secondary school in Wakefield. Would have easily found a job over these parts and wouldn't have been on mega bucks.

Rent a house in Oldham and both would have had a 40 minute drive.

I think Saints need to employ me as player liaison officer. I'll do the dirty work, arranging digs for players off cap and arranging accidents for players who don't meet the required standards.

We don't need any help injuring players!

Plenty of houses for rent and sale in "Cement City"

Jesus this guy is soft! He's like a pansy on the field. Looks afraid of breaking a nail. I don't think I've seen a player as soft as s*it as this guy.

I've seen some bad players but this guy just so soft in everything he does. Even when he falls with the ball he's trying to break his fall.

Just an embarrassment to a rugby league player.

I agree with the sentiments. At the moment, Turner looks like a man who doesn't want to be on a rugby field. Some of his defence is embarrassing. One Leeds try, he stood rooted to the tryline as they advanced on him. He couldn't have stopped a try even if he'd bothered to make the tackle (which he didn't).

He needs to be dropped. He's in terrible form.

He's so soft it's embarrassing. I've never seen a rugby player afraid of falling to the ground. It's like a 13yr old school girl falling over in the play ground.

He even puts his hands up if the is a tackle in front of him in case he catches a stray boot, again like a school girl.


I'll be honest, I don't want to see this pansy play in a saints shirt again.

I don't know what's happened to him. He played well for large parts of last season. The problem we have is who replaces him? Percival is as bad in defence as him.

Got to be fair to Percival. That was his first game back. And one of the missed tackles that lead to a try was just bad fortune. Smashing his head into Swifts. If one had not made the tackle. Then Watkins would probably have been tackled. Or at least slowed enough for the tackle to be completed.

You can't account for players taking each other out. To me it showed a lack of playing together. But we can't blame Brown for Percival being injured.

It was a risk putting Percy in and a risk is have took. Percy can actually beat men which is something we lack in the backs.

He was rusty and in hindsight it prob back fired.

Having now seen your guys up against both Wigan and Leeds in recent weeks do those of you who put forward the 'best 1-5 in Superleague' (sic) still stick by that claim? That's a genuine question btw, not trolling. As I said at the time, I thought it was something of a stretch.