On the Red Vee rumours thread its been mentioned about a player of interest to St's but no one knows who or if its FC or KR. I wonder if its Mau with Woolf being an ex Tonga national coach and Mau having played for Tonga? Obviously its all just guess work.

How many of your first XVII if everyone is fit are home grown as it were, you mention a fair few names that seem to be coming up through the ranks as first choice or definitely part of the players that you'd rotate with.

Hope we keep Sevelio, he has done very well this year and improved on last by a significant margin IMO.
The club will of course know this but we have to be wary about offering bigger/improved contracts just to retain the services of certain players when other clubs come calling, that way always leads to a longer term worse outcome regards how you value players salaries and what you can then afford regards your squad overall.
We had that previously, with some very big earners at the club taking a siginifcant chunk of the salary and actually didn't perform to the level expected once their contracts were signed, we paid for it with a weaker squad overall.
We can't have sentiment getting in the way of progression that's for sure.

How's Dodd progressing? from the clips I saw of him playing for the academy he looked something special.

For this year? Somewhere between 9-11; Makinson, Percival, Grace, Lomax, Walmsley (sort of, but is technically home grown due to a quirk in the rules), Roby, Lees, Knowles, Smith/Dodd (one of them makes the 17 though I’m not sure which), and maybe Wingfield or Welsby (I would play both over Joel Thompson who basically admitted in his retirement announcement his body is shot).

I would expect 11 next year (Welsby and Dodd being on the certain list effectively), assuming we make the 3 signings I believe we are, and none of them are homegrown originally (Savelio, Luke Thompson, Josh Jones etc). If we don’t, Simm at centre or Wingfield at back row will also be definite (Norman will take the prop role and he’s not homegrown).

Dodd is hard to assess at the moment, he’s being played out of position at hooker as the club are supposedly training him defensively, but he’s been really exciting in the glimpses we have had as fans. There’s been more than a few calling for him to start ahead of Fages anyway, as Fages has been in indifferent form so far this year. He’s getting his first proper game at 7 this week with Fages out injured, so should be a good assessment of him. From a training perspective all we hear about is him ripping it up, and the club have no fear in putting him straight in at 7 if Fages leaves

thanks for that, that's really impressive

Promising news...

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