I've said for years that Saints won't move forward as a club until they cut their losses and release Jonny Lomax.

Seeing as it was only little over 18 months ago that he got a season ending injury away at Catalans, exactly how many "years" ago did you start thinking we should cut our losses?

Seriously? Even before he got injured and was at times a one man attack for us. He was our go to man with ball. Safe as houses under the kick and very rare missed a tackle.

A top 4 finish is a good finish and I am confident we can achieve that. I suspect the position you finish in the top 4 is less important than how you get there.

The problem for us in 2015 was the Leeds Rhinos and given that they will not be the same team in 2016 immediately improves our chances regardless of how we perform.

I would personally like to get to the cup final. That has been what I have wanted at the start of every season for the last few years.

Looking at our signing Fages is a massive boost, he will either keep Walsh honest or replace him completely. The only small problem with that is Fages is not the best kicker. Tasi for Mose is a loss as a lot of our tries came off Mose runs in 2015 and Tasi looks more of a worker. Jones for Peyroux is also a down grade but I suspect that Ashworth will be Jones true replacement and could easily turn into a better player in the long run. Owens looks a good player and will provide us with cover at our trouble position of Fullback as well as better cover than Dawson on the wing.

Looking at the rest of the competition there is no reason why this can't be our season.

Am expecting a top 4 finish and a challenge cup appearance, there is not any teams out there with outstanding quality players so I suppose strength in depth might work in our favour for 2016. I'm still non the wiser what the coach is going to do with Turner, if Peyroux is getting centre spot then we've got the other side of the coin.....Peyroux can defend but can't attack, Turner can attack but can't defend.
I'm expecting Walsh to get us organised this year, lots of pressure on Burns, we potentially have decent strength in the of backs for injuries or off form scenarios.

Peyroux good in defence? Have you seen this guy play ? He's awful in defence and is worse than Turner defensively

Top 2 finish easily along with Leeds. Wigan have no pack and their backs are average with the exception of Tomkins. Warrington have just signed a bunch of journeymen. The other teams in SL arent worth debating

Regards

King James

Warrington have recruited very well and will certainly improve this year. Wigan finished above us last year as did huds so to completely disregard other teams is laughable

With the kind of injury Tomkins is recovering from its questionable if he ever comes back the same player.

I think we only finished below Wigan and Huddersfield because of our cup hangover. It took a while for the team to get over not being able to beat Leeds, we looked like the second best team in the comp last year and this year we should look like the best.

I do agree that there are more threats outside the big 4...

Huddersfield are a good bet for finishing top as they have the potential to be the most consistent team. They need to get over their big game phobia to do anything beyond the regular season.

Hull FC could have the best pack in the league after having a very poor one. If Radford has anything about him the KC could become a fortress again in 2016.

Castleford were the form team at the end of 2015 and only missed out because they started slowly (3 losses to start the year) without that they are a play off quality team.

Catalan are always dangerous and they only have to travel a bit better to get a top 4 place after the round robin stage. Then 4 more home games and a shot at a top 2 finish and a home semi. Finishing 4th instead of 5th after the first stage is massive for them.

I do disagree about Wire, a few interesting signings, Sandow looked like he was on holiday last year. If they play to their potential they could be a good team but it is hard to see that happening.

I suspect that the top 8 will be the same as last year unless Salford pull themselves together and Wire/Hull FC really fall apart.

Let's hope we don't have cup hangover this year

Agreed, and we think we can beat Leeds

I think we will struggle to make top 4 this unless we improve in the halves massively. We was so easy to defend against last year and come big games you need big players to make things happen. Walsh and Burns was poor last year and a lot will depend on them this year.

If Walmsley or Roby miss games we will struggle big time as we lack go foward. I'm hoping tasi will provide us with some as we depend on big Alex and Robes. Some of our stats for meters gained last year from the likes of mose, amor, Richards etc was poor.

I hope KC isn't thinking of playing percy on wing this year. I know he's been training as winger in practice. I know we have swifty and Tommy injured but don't we have wingers in reserve ? I like players playing in their proper positions.

He's been training there as Makinson and Swift haven't been fully fit. Percival will be our 1st choice centre, without a doubt, as long as we have 2 fit wingers for the start of the season.