Wondered that myself, if he doesn't then it would have been a very strange suggestion to invite him!

I seem to remember Connolly on the pitch at half time during the last Good Friday derby at KR in 2010. Can't recall what for though.

I know it’s all wrong, makes the 15 page thread on throwing p1ss seem trivial. There were even a few cheers, disgusting. Such vile conduct should not be tolerated, nothing short of life bans will do.

Why was that rat allowed in the ground!!!

Gary Connolly was interviewed in the Sponsors Lounge at todays match.
When asked if it was the Money that persuaded him to sign for Wigan he gave a totaly different version to the one believed by most fans which totaly exonerated him.

Yes how dare a St.helens lad and former St.Helens player whos father in law is in the St.Helens hall of fame be allowed into the stadium,what has the world come to .

He was a quality player for us, we should have signed him up, but with 20/20 hindsight, it was actually a good deal as other players came along, like prescott and Newlove.

People who want someone to blame for Connolly leaving should blame the board of the time. They wanted the transfer fee money and he was essentially sold while in Aus. Remember this is pre bosman so the power was most certainly with the clubs not the players.

Saints needed the money and sold him, that's what I've always been told.

The sad thing was instead of just saying that the board decided to make Gary a St Helens lad a villain.

People point to the fact he got a big pay rise... so what, he was told he was being sold to at the time the best team in the country and he negotiated a nice deal for himself, I fail to see the problem with that.

SOme people seem to think this is a profesionel game or something

If you remenber we got in trouble over Adrian Shelford. One of the Directors signed him on the back of a fag packet and the Connolly money paid some court costs

Thought the Andy Platt transfer paid for the Shelford affair?Maybe the Connolly money was for something else.
Ahh the Saints board of the 1980s,never a dull moment!

Platt monies were to cover the "Shelford Affair". Those were the days a massive board made up of the
great and not so good business men of St.Helens with Geoff Sutcliffe as what would now be Chief Exec.

Murphy (coach at the time) claimed that the saints board had a signed contract from Shelford in the club safe.

Remember reading the Echo reporting of the High Court Case in Liverpool with the judge describing
the Saints director responsible for signing Shelford as a "most unreliable witness". Ironically the Saints
director was a sitting magistrate in StHelens at the time.
Saints were left with costs of £140Kish. Platt was sold to Wigan for £140K.

Also remember going to Naughton Park for a pre season friendly and a flag being unfurled "Splash Out or Get Out" in front of the saints directors in the away directors box to endless chants throughout the match of "Sack the Board".

Think they sold Paul Round when he was on holiday Connolly was similar.

Happy Days.

Hands up I was involved in that along with a certain Steve Ganson and our local ' Saints' press reporter.