BrisbaneRhino wrote:
Wasn't that something more like England reserves? What a waste of an RL talent. If I were an RU coach looking for RL players, I'd focus more on those with games that may benefit RU rather than just because they're stars in RL. RL clubs used to do exactly the same in reverse at times - I assume some of you are old enough to remember that massive tub of lard prop you got from Wales (Stuart something?) and a just-as-useless roly-poly winger (Carrington?)?
I still have nightmares about Dai Young and John Gallagher before anyone starts....
Evans was a near unstoppable monster on the half-dozen or so times he managed to make it onto the pitch vaguely in shape during his career. I always said he could have been one of the all-time greats with even a little bit of professionalism and a decent fitness regime. You can have Carrington though - he was pretty much the poster boy for our disastrous signings of the late '80s. We paid out a shedload for him and if memory serves got 3 sub appearances and a disastrous start in a 0-36 home defeat in the Lancashire Cup against Oldham out of him in 2 years before he retired with injury... Meanwhile we turned down David Bishop because we were worried he'd get injured...
Memories... I think all the ankle-biter knee-jerk whiners on here need to go back in time 25 years or so and be made to support Saints then - then they'd see what a club run by unambitious amateur clueless fools
actually looked like...
