Does anyone know if Gareth Thomas was at Saints tonight? I walked past a guy wearing your home shirt who looked the spitting image of him.

One would expected him to be sat either in the dugouts with the subs and staff etc or in the stands with Noble and co. I can't imagine him signing for the club with the intention to play him next week but then for him to miss the opportunity to watch the game at close quarters.

When was the last time Leyth made the national sports headlines?

Cheers Andy Greg, I knew some of the guys were on dual reg.

Looking forward to seeing his debut this weekend , no doubt he will start on the bench.

A good signing to get the interest of the general Welsh public as a whole.

35 year old on a 3 year deal IIRC may be overdoing it a bit though.

Good job he's only on a 6 month contract with a year's option then isn't it.

A pic on the Saints website confirmed he was there, sitting on those glorious wooden seats of ours, and having seen that pic I now know that earlier on he was in the away end, which is where I walked past him.

Yeah i think leaguies sometimes dont understand the nature of welsh rugby union really. Im dividing my time between mountain ash and the brecon beacons at the mo, occasional visit to merthyr, aberdare and ponty. These places are the beating heart of welsh union and its basically ex-mining/steel town/village against each other and the players they produce wont struggle with any aspect of any kind of physicality. Anybody who thinks anything is deluding themselves. The great tragedy of sporting history is that we lost the queensland of british rugby league in wales. Its a total match between the history, background and sporting culture of league and this country. Hopefully one day we will turn that round.

Obviously I didn't RC then.

Story up here is that Alfie is the fittest member of the squad. He may be knocking on a bit but he has looked after himself.

With Gareth Thomas going in at the centre's Anthony Blackwood has joined Barrow Raiders on a 2 months loan.

Maybe that's more to do with the others being a bit wheezy.

My my the "special link" with South Wales Scorpions" lasted a long time didn't it?

Will Elliot Kear play tonight does anyone know. Seems Noble is unsure who to play at FB. Him or Youngquest

Youngquest has been a bloody calamity in his two games at Fullback. Thank god Nobby realised it and brought Kear back.

I bet Youngquest is the sort of techincally adept player who looks brilliant in training. However, in games at Fullback his match sense completely leaves him and he makes some terrible decisions (not just agaist Saints, was the same against Leeds).

By contrast, Kear is very assured for a young bloke.

Youngquest looks better on the wing and I like his height for Witts high kicks. Lots of competition in the backs now which is healthy.