I really don't buy into this argument that discounting Meli's Grand Final blunders (easily making him the biggest liability in SL history) somehow makes him a good player.

Clearly, people have lost sight of the fact that we play rugby to WIN the Grand Final. Looking good mid season with a few tries under your belt and then sabotaging EVERYTHING YOU'VE YEARNED FOR at Old Trafford in the most spectacularly calamitous way possible really doesn't float my boat.

The Australians figured Meli out very early in his career and were only too willing to offload him onto any old mug with a few quid to spend.

Yes - let's just play Foster and Makinson instead and make sure we don't even get near O/T in the first place, eh?

Is it also worth adding to the debate that probably about half of Foster's tries for the first team have come from a Francis Meli pass?

League Express reporting this morning that Jamie Foster has been told to pack his bags and look for a game at another club.

Seems he wont be at Saints next year, despite being under contract.

Salford and Wakefield must be interested. I can't see him moving to a top 6 club.

I have heard rumours in Wigan that Warriors want him as I direct replacement for Pat Richards who is rumoured to be leaving at the end of the season.....

Totally agree with this 100%

WHAT???

You do say some idiotic things sometimes. Foster and Makinson were in the team most of last season (all, in the case of Foster) and we not only got to the Grand Final but Makinson - who you are constantly dismissing - turned the game around IN OUR FAVOUR (only for that doofus Meli to reverse his good work) and Foster - who you also discount - secured two points by kicking a penalty from the halfway line.

Sure, let's play Foster and Makinson and make sure we don't get to the Grand Final in the first place. Just like we did last year.

I totally agree that our backline has to include Foster and Makinson. They were outstanding last year in an injury hit squad and should have been in from the off this season....

Wellens
Makinson
Shenton
Jones
Foster
Gaskell
Lomax

This might be a young and inexperienced backline but with the exception of Meli it got us to the Challenge Cup Semi-Finals and a Grand Final....

But you leave out Meli and would Foster have done as well as he did. Was it a case of the centre making the winger. Anyone remember one danny arnold, had a great try scoring record but he was outside the barn storming scott gibbs, so basically all the defenders had been steam rollered anyway's

Interesting read in the League Express today which says they understand Foster has been told he can look for another club for next season.

Nobody can ever answer that question about any centre/wing partnership because it is the partnership that counts. It could have been Meli being crap earlier this season that left Foster looking so poor, couldn't it?

Who knows??? Dont know anything until you give it chance and a prolonged run do you???

Is that on the gossip page? I haven't bought League Express yet.

It's on Martin Saddlers 'Talking Rugby League Page'