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.

Does anyone KNOW that Saints (the club rather than a particular supporter) wanted Dean?

According to Redvee the reason that you only just beat us (bearing in mind we had played against Catalans on the Saturday, and collapsed against them) was because you were rubbish (I’m paraphrasing) and nothing to do with how we played. So yes, sudden decline

yeah

stop asking so many questions man.

SadBell - go on the saints forum instead. Please and thank you.

And didn’t you sign all our local youth talent that we were too blind to see…but then you pay them buttons so they can’t afford to play? Have i understood you correctly?
[Sorry FMC but I NEED to know.]

I don't see why the players being on part-time deals would rule them out of playing 80 minutes at the weekend? Won't their work let them have time off to play Super League?

When Briers came in for Bobby Goulding he was on a YTS deal if I remember rightly and he did very well for Saints.