How dare you!! We've re-signed Ade Gardner and Laffranchi!!

That's not what he said though was it?

Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.

He met with Eamonn, Brown and Rush 2 weeks ago last Wednesday at LP.

Quote: St pete "Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.'" Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=552223&tsmp=1371329738&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.

Quote: St pete "Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.'" Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=552223&tsmp=1371329738&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.

Quote: St pete "Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?'" Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board Quote: St pete "Sam as signed and will be loaned back to Leigh for the rest of this season , he really is a future star , nice kid nice family . Sam as his feet firmly on the ground'" viewtopic.php?f=28&t=552208&tsmp=1371330617&start=50

Quote: St pete "Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?'" Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board Quote: St pete "Sam as signed and will be loaned back to Leigh for the rest of this season , he really is a future star , nice kid nice family . Sam as his feet firmly on the ground'" viewtopic.php?f=28&t=552208&tsmp=1371330617&start=50

Players are never the most reliable 'insiders'. We all assume they know stuff but quite often they are actually the last to know.

Saints players don't even know what position they are playing in until kick off, they wouldn't have a clue as to who the club are potentially trying to sign.

As most know on here, they been very reliable to me over the years on signings, injury news, team news etc.

Could this be another "Adrian Shelford" scenario. Verbally agreeing to come to Saints but on paper signing for the wigoons.

He told me Hopkins hadn't signed but saints was confident he would.

Lets be Honest though, if it was a choice between Wigan saints and Warrington then I'd certainly pick Wigan over saints. Wigan are the best team in super league, their coach backs all his young players and certainly isn't afraid to throw them (he gets a kick out of playing young lads) and they will pay better than us. Simple decision IMO

It makes you wonder if Hopkins would make the same step up as Chris Hill and perhaps Walmsley whilst neglecting our own. How good would Walker, Thompson and Greenwood look if they were playing for Leigh Centutions would they attract the same attention.
My preference would be to have Greenwood and Walmsley as our future props, plenty of physical size, speed and a potentionally a good offloading game.
Hopkins is a second row turned into a prop isn,t he, we have plenty of those at the club at the club at the moment.

When are we going to see our Andre Savelio making an appearance at prop this season.