As much trouble as he was i'd still have him back in a heartbeat... with faith in Prices man management skills to keep him in line. I'd hate to see him playing for another SL team

I thought he was linked to Hull KR

A great player, but with more baggage than Heathrow Terminal 5.

A bucketful of trouble

Absolute waste of talent that lad. Surely if he was to sign for KR we would be on the phone to them or the RFL clarifying our position in terms of compensation with him running out on his contract? Surely he cant just waltz back into England and start playing again?

no he can't get the visa but he can through Canada.

Is this actually confirmed?

Would prefer us to re-sign Sandow rather than Eastmond.

This

With all the baggage Sandow brought with him, no thanks. Not worth it for 8 decent games in 18 months.

I can't comment on the 'trouble' aspect - only lots of peeps saying he was (not disputing that) - but he was virtually unplayable when he first came here and had the x factor which I've not seen for a long time.
Eastmond ? Well I'm no real judge but I can't honestly say I'm over-enthusiastic. Then again I've been wrong almost as much as Tony Smith over recruitment..... (Only joking Tony)

And Warrington managed to win the League Leaders Shield and reach two major finals off the back of those 8 decent games, or maybe we weren't a one man team and it was down to Tony Smith's shrewd recruitment assembling a top class squad around him!

Some people would take a gamble on the likes of Sandow and Eastmond, others would prefer safer options:

We already have a strong squad and I don't see the point in paying good dollar for a slight up-grade or players who basically add the same skill sets as the players we already have. If we were consistently mid-table and lower then fair enough, but we aren't. Look at the benefit one x-factor addition has made to a solid squad at saints this season. If Sandow could have avoided injury at Wigan, he could have lead us to some silverware; at the very least, treated us to some wonderful crowd enticing skills- as shown by our capacity crowd v Widnes during his spell with us.

A fair number of people have been bemoaning our lack of a descent half for many years since Briers left. Briers himself was a maverick, he too fitted into the temperamental mould of the above mentioned players. You can't really have it both ways-you have to except a bit of mediocrity or be prepared to take a risk if you want to see some quicksilver in a wire shirt.

I say take the risk. At the very least it's going to make the games more exciting, present more magical moments and bring back the speccys again- it's no coincidence that our best attendances over any period of time have coincided with exciting players to watch.

Sandow hasn't even been playing Queensland Cup this year. The last I remember seeing of him was a filmed drunken street fight. Forget the Sandow of 2015/16, he's not done anything of note on a rugby field for at least two years.

In that respect Eastmond would probably be less of a risk, as he at least has looked after himself physically. I've no idea on what basis anyone thinks he'd be a star halfback though, he barely played a full season there for Sts, and spent the time after he announced he left trying to avoid getting hurt. In any event if he came back next year it would be 8 years since he left RL. That's a long time to be out of the game. He could be a centre, but would he be worth marquee money?

The bloke was world class at the start of 2016. If he had avoided injury he would have led us to silverware no doubt. before injury he was focused on training and playing. during his time off he found himself lost in the darkness of Orford with his two new best mates Charlie and Gary. If only his hamstring had held up, I imagine we would have had at least another season out of him.