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At the time I was devastated when judas left, but the fact that his transfer fee brought in newlove was a great bit of business, much as binning Gleeson enabled us to get Lyon. Worst thing about judas was his habit of scoring against us in big games. To**er
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| Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"Interesting, though, that when people were speculating over what Eastmond might be wanting, people were thinking that maybe Eastmond was putting too high a value on himself? I think that might have been Connolly's problem also. We weren't in the same financial league as Wigan. And, as Connolly also said, how could anyone turn down playing for Wigan when they had all those great players (who they had doubled the wages of from other clubs no doubt!)?
I don't have to give him a break. He got all the money and glory he craved. I'm quite sure the rest of the Saints team of that time would have liked Wigan sized wages too but Saints were not in a position to pay. To me it all sounded like a fair deal: Connolly wanted out (first to Canterbury then to Wigan), Saints needed money. Fair dinkum.'"
He wanted the going rate for a quality player and theres nothing wrong with that,he actually would of taken less from Saints than Canterbury would pay him.He didnt crave money and glory.He would of loved to of stayed at Saints but Saints wanted to pay him peanuts,he didnt want to play for our rivals but was sold and didnt have a choice in it.And you mention why would he play for Wigan for free ? look at the stage of his career he was at,it was his last few games of a great career you cant compare that to the stuff that went on at Saints at the begining of his career.For the sake of £3000 the board let him go.
Maybe im biased being an ex Blackbrook player and been coached by his father in law,but Gary is a very nice fella who over the years has taken a ton of crap for something that was never his fault. |
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| Quote brook40="brook40"He wanted the going rate for a quality player and theres nothing wrong with that,he actually would of taken less from Saints than Canterbury would pay him.He didnt crave money and glory.He would of loved to of stayed at Saints but Saints wanted to pay him peanuts,he didnt want to play for our rivals but was sold and didnt have a choice in it.And you mention why would he play for Wigan for free ? look at the stage of his career he was at,it was his last few games of a great career you cant compare that to the stuff that went on at Saints at the begining of his career.For the sake of £3000 the board let him go.
Maybe im biased being an ex Blackbrook player and been coached by his father in law,but Gary is a very nice fella who over the years has taken a ton of crap for something that was never his fault.'"
I agree, Gary is top lad and very down to earth.
He used to like a few pints tho 
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im 41 mate
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| Quote brook40="brook40"im 41 mate'"
I'm Ex blackbrook but your a little ahead of my time |
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I knew there was a good reason you talk sense
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| Quote brook40="brook40"I knew there was a good reason you talk sense'"
I played under feddie fletcher, Alan eaton and Alan swift. |
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| Quote brook40="brook40"He wanted the going rate for a quality player and theres nothing wrong with that,he actually would of taken less from Saints than Canterbury would pay him.'"
So why did he want to go to Canterbury then?
For the record, I'm not bothered one way or the other as he was before my time. But I'm just responding to what I thought after watching him on TV. |
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| Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"So why did he want to go to Canterbury then?
For the record, I'm not bothered one way or the other as he was before my time. But I'm just responding to what I thought after watching him on TV.'"
Because we offered peanuts and he was no white elephant.
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| Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"So why did he want to go to Canterbury then?
For the record, I'm not bothered one way or the other as he was before my time. But I'm just responding to what I thought after watching him on TV.'"
He said why, he'd played over there in the summer he liked the lifestyle and they offered him more money. |
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| Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"So why did he want to go to Canterbury then?
For the record, I'm not bothered one way or the other as he was before my time. But I'm just responding to what I thought after watching him on TV.'"
He wanted to go to Canterbury as he had done a stint there in the offseason as was the norm for a lot of players back in the era of winter rugby and he liked it there.He was coming out of contract with Saints and Canterbury offered him a deal,he would of stayed at Saints if they would of payed a bit more. |
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| Quote St pete="St pete"I played under feddie fletcher, Alan eaton and Alan swift.'"
Some of the coaches i played under are.Johnny Winders,Brian and Mike Parkes,Billy Woods and Wilf Smith |
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