Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:42 am  

pyeman wrote:

We are top, not a bottom club

That's my point.

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:52 am  

A useful player, but I am happy with the choice the club has made. You can not keep them all.

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:43 pm  

Wakey started in a similar fashion last season, top of the league yes but top team .. Not yet, still to prove.

That said in the interest of Yorkshire clubs doing well I hope cas keep it up.

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:51 pm  

I wish we could have either of them back because Josh Perry is now out with a groin injury, so that could be the back of him for a while. We've hardly seen him play since he signed for us.

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:57 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I wish we could have either of them back because Josh Perry is now out with a groin injury, so that could be the back of him for a while. We've hardly seen him play since he signed for us.

He's played more than Pryce.No player is immune from injuries.Why pick on Perry,this is the first injury he's had whilst playing for Saints

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:03 pm  

pyeman wrote:

On a similar note thanks for emmit, has been fantastic for us and one of the reasons we are top of the league.

Nobody other than the saints club know how close we are to the top end of the salary cap but i think letting emmitt go was big mistake. He was showing signs of being a top quality prop and maybe been Grahams replacement.

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:37 pm  

thanks for Pj anymore you can send us will be greatly appreciated

Re: Paul Johnson : Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:06 pm  

Hope he does well, but we made the right choice in letting him go.

Re: Paul Johnson : Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:00 am  

Noel Cleal wrote:

A useful player, but I am happy with the choice the club has made. You can not keep them all.

Correct. Saints like all clubs will let players go who with hindsight they would have kept.

I detest it when fans slag off young players who have left BRANDING them as also rans or not good enough, as if it's personal affront to them that their club could possibly have got it wrong. Johnson may well prove to be one that you should have kept. Worst case scenario is that he makes his name at Wakey, then joins Wigan becomes a star and then comes back to haunt you. It happens to all clubs, you have had a few - Sean Long springs to mind.

Clubs make the best decisions they can with the info available at the time. It could just be that Johnson fits in at Trinity though in this case I do think there is a real player in the making here. However there was no reason why at the end of last year Saints should/could have known that - 6 month is a long time in RL.

Re: Paul Johnson : Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:09 am  

Willzay wrote:

thanks for Pj anymore you can send us will be greatly appreciated

I've been to all of the U20's curtain raisers so far this season, I think we have a few good young props that could make the grade such as Thompson, Walker & Forster, they all have great workrate and endevour similar to Johnson. Forster is the one they think very highly of but he's a bit injury prone.