But what was he signed for, Roguey? Centre. Which was a fair dissapointment. I even seem to recall him being on the verge of being shipped off?
Moving him out of the centre and giving him the goal kicking responsibilties gave him back his confidence and a couple of years later he's MOS (all IIRC).

Personally, I don't see the big whoop with Richards. He good, don't get me wrong. He's big and strong, good under kicks, fairly paced, but I was a little dissapointed by him winning MOS. If he gats the ball 20 metres out, you don't panic like you do with some players.

Wigan wouldn't need foster as you say, they've got a kicker and there's winger with other strengths to compliment Wigan, but we all seem to talk about what Foster lack after his kicking - out'n'out pace, ability to beat a man etc. Well, those things didn't help Shaun Ainscough and Kevin Penny. We no longer watch the romantic semi professional era, where the likes of Sullivan were forgiven their inabilty of field kicks beacuse they'd make up for it in attack. Foster has a low error count, he has safe hands, can squeeze in at the corner, doesn't make many mistakes in defence and has enough pace to finish most chances. Add to that he's racking up points like a mother er and he's got the making of a club stalwart for the next decade.

Personally, I don't think he's got enough pace, size or magic to be an international quality winger, but I do see encouraging signs when he has the ball in 2 on 2 type situations. Obviously a result of all his years playing centre for the underwhatevers. I think he'd be a good full back, but I reckon with Hohaia arriving, the possibilty of Leon staying and the presence of Lomax, Gaskell and Wagon Wheels, his chances will be few and far between.

Summed up perfectly why he is such a valuable member of the side. Your heart isn't in your mouth with him, and he almost always squeezes in at the corner when other wingers would find a foot in touch or brush the corner post. And, as has been done to death, we finally have a consistently good goalkicker.

Not sure who is earning what at the club, but for me Foster has certainly deserved to be up there with J-Lo in terms of salary.

Not quite for me. Lomax could really be a star at any club. IMO He would have a lot more bargaining power when it came to salary negotions. Foster is a solid club player and deserves to end up on a solid club players wages, with a bonus for his kicking. Lomax looks set to be a star and should end up on top end wages.

I don't know where people get this idea that Foster is an average winger. He may not be a destructive solo player, but he's the best winger we've had since Albert left. Superb finisher, solid defensively, superb under the high ball generally. He is also starting to make line breaks as he becomes more savy and gets stronger.

Give him a new deal Eammon. Give him Gary Wheeler's money for starters.

Yet again you plonkers have let Rogues and his ilk hijack another thread on to talking about Wigan. This was about Foster, you know Saints, Foster, our winger.

Why do you let him do that? It's obvious what he's doing so why do you play along? If he wants to talk about Paaaaat then he can start a new thread.

If you read the full thread, on page one, you will see it was in response to SaintsFan speculating that Foster may be going to Wigan.

Please god no.

No wonder you have not won anything for so long........

You should change your specs before you decide to troll. It wasn't me. It was Saints94 who wrote the OP.

I never said that you were the OP.
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I think you did speculate that he may be going to Wigan, did you not?

Or are you going to try and worm out of this one as usual?

It might be Warrington. They're all whispering about a winger being signed. They were assuming he'd be an NRL superstar like Gasnier coming out of retirement or Uate. But maybe it's the Wire?

I think it would be a horrendous piece of management for him to be allowed to leave however.

Why are other fans bothered to come on here to tell us that such and such a player is no good?

I have no problems with Wigan or anyone else prefering what they have to Foster, but that does not really mean much other than club loyalty.

As far as foster goes, he gets the tries. If he got 1 try a year but was as fast as Dwaine Chambers, I would not opt for him over the current Foster who gets many tries regardless of supposed pace.

For thoes who have never seen him beat a man or run more than 30 yards, go watch the catalan game, if you want to see long range tries from Jamie.

It's only Wigan and Warrington. Their fans are so fundamentally scared that their own team's chances of success could be ruined by us that they have to do our players down.

Eh? I rate Foster.

Classic Miss Deluded SaintsFan

Why the hell would the current SL champions, Challenge cup finalists with such a young talented squad be scared of you in the slightest?? Remind me the last time you beat us again........