No mention of Robson on this thread….

Sadly not. This is his 9th loan, I think. And we won't see him in a Warrington shirt again.

i am sure Sky Sports News reported Robson as a permanent deal?

The Robson move definitely reported as permanent. Can’t help but feel we messed him around.

Yeah, permanent. I wrongly presumed it was a loan as Newcastle have only signed him for the rest of this season.

lots of 12 month (max) contracts in the championship

Really don't see why Dean didn't come to Saints on loan. He would benefit from that far more than semi-pro'ing it at Newcastle. You could have come to an agreement that he doesn't play against you should you perform miracles in the Play offs too. Would have been a win-win for all parties.

Maybe it was never on the table? Saints never enquired and we never offered?
Maybe we really needed Robson off the cap and Newcastle were adamant that dean on load had to be part of any deal?

Maybe we don't want saints tapping him up before he is offered a contract?

He will be fine, whatever the reason, we have a recall option and he will definitely be playing for the next few weeks which is important for him.

I just don’t get this crisis in the half backs at Saints that has led to a sudden decline. Haven’t you just got 1 halfback injured? Have you seen how many different options we have had to use and we have done much less bleating than you lot.

Judging by what I’ve seen of the top two in the last couple of weeks I don’t think we need ‘miracles’. Make sure we get in the top 6 and along with steady improvement and I wouldn’t be counting us out.

Sudden decline? We've lost one game due to the disruption both our halfbacks getting injured caused. We'll be fine, but I know we have been looking for a loan scrum half as it's the one position we don't have an obvious backup in. We have a couple of decent academy halfbacks but they are apparantly on part time deals because of work. If Hopoate was ever fit it wouldn't be an issue either, but he's as robust as a biscuit.

If you need a halfback, Saints could/should have made borrowing Dean on a month by month basis a condition, before you allowed Amor to join Wire.