Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:19 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Quite.

He still picks and chooses when he plays. He was all fired up on Friday because he was playing against his former team. But I've watched other Dragons games as he has hardly featured.

I don't regret letting Pryce go. In fact, for the last 18 months of his time here it was as if he was gone anyway.

sorry mate that's incorrect - i've watched all the Cats home games when he's played and I can't recall a bad game - some games he has been superb and really fired up - the kicking game has been so-so but his all round contribution has been immense in the games i've watched live - fridays performance wasn't that unusual for him at the GB this season

saying that, I think it was time for him to move on personally to another challenge and all that - a masterstroke by Robinson in the same way he has kept Sir Steve going for an extra two seasons

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:23 am  

sanjunien wrote:

sorry mate that's incorrect - i've watched all the Cats home games when he's played and I can't recall a bad game - some games he has been superb and really fired up - the kicking game has been so-so but his all round contribution has been immense in the games i've watched live - fridays performance wasn't that unusual for him at the GB this season

saying that, I think it was time for him to move on personally to another challenge and all that - a masterstroke by Robinson in the same way he has kept Sir Steve going for an extra two seasons

I think it was best for both parties that he moved on to be honest, he'd become stale at saints and needed a new challenge.

Saints basically paid him to sit on his bum for the last two years of his contract at saints.

I know Leon pretty well, he was 80% going anyway as the deal Catalan offered him was massive and it was 3 years!

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:10 am  

St pete wrote:

I think it was best for both parties that he moved on to be honest, he'd become stale at saints and needed a new challenge.

Saints basically paid him to sit on his bum for the last two years of his contract at saints.

I know Leon pretty well, he was 80% going anyway as the deal Catalan offered him was massive and it was 3 years!

yeah, I think that sums it up pretty well - Leon really enjoys life in Perpignan it seems and playing well is a great filip to his team mates - there's a great atmosphere about the place even when the team loses the spirit is there and a lot of that has to go down to Robinson

anyway, St Pete - did you sort out accommodation etc in the end ? how was the trip ?

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:27 am  

sanjunien wrote:

yeah, I think that sums it up pretty well - Leon really enjoys life in Perpignan it seems and playing well is a great filip to his team mates - there's a great atmosphere about the place even when the team loses the spirit is there and a lot of that has to go down to Robinson

anyway, St Pete - did you sort out accommodation etc in the end ? how was the trip ?

No i didn't go, it was to much messing about and some of the lads dropped out etc

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:02 pm  

St pete wrote:

No i didn't go, it was to much messing about and some of the lads dropped out etc

Apparently there were nearly 1000 Saints fans there, which is a pretty good turnout IMO.

Wish I could have been one of them.

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:20 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Apparently there were nearly 1000 Saints fans there, which is a pretty good turnout IMO.

Wish I could have been one of them.

My advice from spending hours and hours looking at options on how to get there etc, is to book it yourself without using any of the packages on offer as its much cheaper.

We left it to late, then people was dropping out and it is a little bit of messing about but if you get it sorted when the fixtures first come out and you'll prob get it for £350 ish.

Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Catalans. : Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:34 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Apparently there were nearly 1000 Saints fans there, which is a pretty good turnout IMO.

Wish I could have been one of them.

yeah, must have been a good 1000 fans so well done to all - you were treated to a good game in cooler conditions thanks to the breeze from the mountains

it's much better having the bigger supported clubs in the better weather just to see more visiting fans - next week it's London coming down and we'll be lucky to see 50 fans !
Last years Saints game was in early march and only a handful of fans came over which is normal for that time of year and it was a bitterly cold evening so maybe the RFL can sort out the fixture list a bit to help the 'bigger' supported clubs ?

thanks to all the Saints fans who showed impeccable manners during the singing of the Catalan anthem, even standing which was the ultimate respect