Do so many people on here honestly believe that we will just go and sign one of the hottest prospects Saints have got with no bother at all?

IF Eastmond leaves Saints it will surely be for the NRL or RU, not a sideways step (at absolute best, everyone bar us would undoubtedly regard it a step down) in Super League.

I wouldn't. We are a team on the up and i have alot of believe that in the upcoming years we will achieve success. Everything is in place and for the first time in a very long time i can finally say "the future's bright, the futures primrose and blue".

So you wouldn't be suprised if the brightest young British talent left his very successful side, where he's come through the academy, who are about to move into a new stadium and where he's regarded as the main player these days, to a side where you already have a young scrum half and have won 1 trophy in however many years when saints have won numerous, instead of going to RU where he can earn more money and take part in a much higher profile and competitive international game?

I'd consider that a massive shock, IF he was going to leave Saints it'd be either to the NRL or to leave Rugby League completely and go over to Union. Like one of the other posters said its a sideways step at best to go to Warrington, but why would be risk everything he's worked for at saints to just go to a side who haven't been that successful thus far and that he doesn't support anyway?

This isn't a dig at warrington, before people come back with the "yeah but how many trophies have Wigan won lately" etc etc. I just don't get why everyone on here mentions Eastmond as a realistic transfer target. You are a side on the up, but why would players from Wigan/Saints go to play for you except for the money. Leeds players will obviously consider if for Tony Smith, so as unrealistic as a potential Sinfield transfer is, you could at least understand a reason for that.

No i wouldn't consider it a shock...Money talks.

But why would you be able to offer more money than Saints would? And then if he was to leave Saints for money wouldn't he just go to RU?

Possibly because we are the richest club in SL

We can't offer any more money than any others, despite what others may allude to.

not everyone does.

That's what I thought.

You may well be the richest club but there is still a cap, and i'm sure Saints and ourselves at least (as well as Leeds etc etc) can spend up to the full amount. We'll both have more space free in the next few years than yourselves anyway I think, plus he's a wigan fan so surely if we put the same money on the table as yourselves etc etc.



Apologies, generalising.

i agree but on a similar note, the Tomkins bros are Wire fans

will take some replacing will sir lee.

I agree, and if Sam was to leave wigan i could imagine him going to Warrington. i just don't see him or Eastmond leaving for another SL club.

well not for a few years anyway.

The "hope" would be that if they do leave it'd be to go to the NRL. I doubt either club would let them go to a rival SL club without a fight.

most top players end up at a few clubs in the end... maybe the NRL and back... burgess is a prime example... there will be a time when he comes back to the SL and EVERYONE will be having a go.

Over the years we have replaced other players as good as, if not better, than Lee Briers.

Terry Campese or Jarryd Mullen

i honestly believe that its such a key position when you think about the type of scrum half myler is.

i can see smith bringing in a real quality player.

We had possibly the finest scrum half of a generation in Andy Gregory and won a premiership in the 1986 season. He left, and we went on to make a CC final in 1990 and win a RT in 1991.

It is possible to move on. He is not irreplaceable.

Scott Leatherbarrow

really you think we can sign kyle eastmond why would he want to come as stated we are club on the up saints won it all before so i don't see it as realistic i think that bosc is a realistic one but dont think it will be a step up from briers more step down.
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andrew johns

Not many have had the same influence on this club, particularly in the context of the team performances (or lack of) over this period.

I'm sure Sally detailed a statistic which showed our win/loss ratio over his career with us was largely the same whether he played or not, as it is this season.

I know that's one of your favourite statistics. However, it is flawed, because we don't know the influence he would have had on the losses he didn't play in. For example, Salford away last year - absolutely battered them but couldn't score.