Cheers Saddened, the special things for me about him is that he has signed for the reds, he is young ( 21) & injury free. he comes from a top club and already has alot of experience under his belt.
lets hope he makes an better impression than Tim Jonkers & Mark Edmundson. two other ex Saints back rowers we had who were cursed with injury.

Was speaking to someone at GF about Matty, he has watched him for the last 4 years and speaks very highly of him. Certainly respect this guy's opinion and his view is it's a big mistake by Saints, he regards Matty as one of the next best things in terms of back row forwards, very skilful and a great athlete.

Posted this on the 7th September in your rumours thread , meant to say 2nd rower not back rower (as i corrected 2 posts later)

Sounds like Luke Adamson

He's not a bad player and was unlucky at Saints - I think it came down to a choice between him and Dixon and he lost out. We have some more young forwards coming through the ranks like Hale and Forster and I think the club was looking to clear some space to maybe give them some game time next year.

Hope he goes well for you lot.

Good luck to Salford and Matty Ashurst in their combined quest to achieve play off rugby.

Matty Ashurst isn't the second coming, he's not 'the next big thing in second rowers'. If he gets anywhere near being that it's Salford's achievement.

Don't really not what to make of this, yes he's a young forward, yes he's been at a top set up, but I'll say it once again we have a pack full of young players who lets face it offer nothing going forward. They're all just "solid" players so I keep getting told. Lets hope this year they offer just a little bit more than "solid" otherwise we could be in trouble.


Like everyhting else time will tell. Good luck Matty and Welcome.

This is a good point. I think we're going to have to pin our hopes on Parish being able to whip the likes of Feka, Sidlow, Jewitt and Boyle into shape in pre-season to give us the go forward we will require.

Good signing in my eyes, still young been working in a quality enviroment will hopefully bring that will to win and work hard to us next season

Yet another young forward to add to our collection of other "brilliant" young forwards. They are all so good/exciting/amazing/brilliant that he might not even get a game...

For his age he is outstanding. The key is how he progresses at Salford were he should get more game time.
He has the potential to be a top notch backrower. Certainly possesses the size pace and handling ability. Just needs the physical maturity to start punching holes in defences.

As a guide of how good he could be, as youself how many other 21 year old backrow forwards have already played over 50 first grade games.

I suspect he has moved because he wants to make the step up, and thinks that at Saints he might be held back a bit due to being seen as merely a squad player because of the more experienced players such as Soliola and Wilkin who are infront of him.
There is also the not inconsequential matter that Saints have a number of very high quality young backrow forwards coming through who would undoubtedly demand to get given their chance.

Spot on...He wants to play Rugby , that's the be all and end all of it , he's a talented lad who has seen his amount of appearances held back under the present coach, even missing out on reserve grade games because he has been chosen as 18th man for senior games and therefore travelled with the first team, i'm sure he will go from strength to strength at Salford , i just hope that they can build a team that will challenge for the play-offs at the very least,if they do i'm sure he will shine and show his talent.
I also agree with you about the lads coming through , as a Wigan fan i think both Saints and Wigan are always going to have many talented lads who they have to let go(and get criticised for) because the sheer amount of them that come through is too many to hold down a first team spot.

I bet hes just sick of playing for a team that doesn't win trophies and wanted a change!