Yeaman's a lost cause now, this young crop coming through need to grow in a culture that doesn't accept mediocrity.

Yeaman has been finished for a long time. We need a settled pair of quality half backs, a quality winger and two strike centres.

Our squad is not good enough and is made much worse by having an out of his depth coach (again) who thinks he can bully his way through the season. I don't think (or hope) that he'll see it out.

Answer to a different question, that.

Can you see [iRadford[/i shipping out his mate, Yeaman?

No. (even though he is e)

And therein lies (partially) our problem.

Yeaman is a prime example of bad contract decisions by Hull, clubs like Saints only hand out 1 year deals to anyone who is over 30, even if they are a club legend, even if they are playing well...they keep their options open in case that player becomes old and past it quickly. Hull give out new deals out of sentiment, we extended Lynch's contract a year early for example but early in to the 2nd year of his deal (never mind the extended 3rd year) he was looking knackered. We're lucky Cas wanted him as otherwise we'd have been paying him this year to play a very limited role.

I reckon he'd love to. Where does this 'mate' stuff come from? I (sort of) know them both and they're hardly best buddies, no more than Radford and Houghton are. Radford knows Kirk isn't top class, but we just don't have any other option at the moment, Ben Crooks is woefully out of form and Arundel isn't good enough.

Saints signed Willie Manu on a two year deal.

The bin man is our best three quarter.

By far, love this guy.

they do occasionally give longer offers out yes, I believe Meli got 2 years a couple of years ago. But this is rare, and even club legends like Long only get 1 year offers, which given that he did ok in 2010 and looked shot in 2011 was the right decision by them.

I realise that no club has a crystal ball, and that some players simply won't join at all unless a longer deal is offered...but I'm not aware of any club paying off and releasing players at the rate we do.

And if you look on the saints board there are many saints fans who cry foul the saints "sentimental" decision to renew "club legend" Paul Wellens contract for a further year over the off season (and they're gonna hit the wall when it happens again this year

) - but why let facts get in the way