When Brad Dwyer left last year I would have thought he would have taken his place. But Price had different ideas.

I'm with you Smiffy, always thought he was decent enough, a snappy passer and for a small guy, not bad in the tackle, (ooh matron) (I had a Kenneth Williams moment there) and hope he still makes a go of it.

Well if you were going to bring in a youngster from outside your local area with the best chance of making him a SL player, it would have to be Morgan Smith. He played England U16's in 2012,13,14 then England Academy 2015, 16. At youth level he was the male version of Pandora with good ball handling skills and a good kicking game. And of course he played halfback, a position where the English genetic line seems to have died out some years ago. I am not sure exactly what wen't wrong but my guess is that he might have received intensive training at an early age (grandad played for Fev.) and reached his potential at 17/18. At Academy level for Wire he was never a prolific try scorer and you expect kids that go on to the first team to excel at this level (Joe Philbin at prop was scoring 18 tries in consecutive seasons with only Jack Johnson playing wing / FB outscoring him). Either way it's a big disappointment.

How come he ended up as a hooker? Wasn't he supposed to be a top prospect 6 or 7 when he arrived?

If he is going to specialise as a hooker and he is a real talent then it makes sense for him to go and seek opportunities to make starts in SL at London, Warrington wouldn't be a good option for a young upcoming hooker talent right now with Clark and Walker ahead of them.

I guess we will see over the next few years how good he is so good luck to him.

Steve Price has not ruled out the prospect of more new faces arriving. With Morgan Smith going, I can see a signing in the next couple of weeks. ....Kyle Amor is still available.

Yes please.

No thanks

I'd take him. It would be like a reverse when Saints took Forzard.
I've said all the last 1/4 of Saints season that not playing Amor left a weak pack and they'd come unstuck. They rely too heavily on Warmsley (inj).

What ever happened to the talk of Savellio coming back or is he still injured in Oz ?

Morgan Smith had the advantage of being a very accurate passer of the ball, something you don't see so often anymore.
As far as Amor is concerned I fail to see what he offers over and above what we already have. Doesn't seem to run the ball in particularly hard, don't see him making breaks, rarely off loads, so why would we want him?

Surely Amor > Sitaleki ?

I would hope that is not the test the Club would use when looking for a new prop.

Amor is better than his early season form. I think he had too much of job to carry the team following the Warmsley injury. Yes they we winning and the backs were doing it well. Saints were very fortunate with much of the fixture scheduling getting big teams early and a long run of easy teams.

I said it before the cc semi final and I said it following....dropping Amor would lose them any chance to visit Wembley. That's what the numpty did and it happened. Completely swamped out by the greater depth of Cats pack. I'm not sure Amor would have made a significant difference to the result but dropping him was an own goal.

Ha ha yes. But if the equation is true then Amor would strengthen our squad.

You increase depth you increase strength, you may not however increase ability.