Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:33 am  

It might not be all about money though for Pryce. His quotes suggest he is happy at Saints and wants to get back to his normal game. Not sure if Bradford would be move for short term success and Catalans might sound attractive but does he want all that travel towards the end of his career.
He has already mentioned he would play in any position for saints as long he is in the team. For me he still offers more than the releasing of Longy's, Gilmore, Cunningham etc.
At the end of the day it might depend on his medical condition and the chairmanship short term to long term plan, if Lance fails in his first year (perry) and we don,t keep Pryce, then 2012 could be deja vu 2011. Tough call.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:53 am  

If we want to win trophies, we need him. IMO Lance isn't good enough to quite fill his boots.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:55 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

If we want to win trophies, we need him. IMO Lance isn't good enough to quite fill his boots.

I agree, losing Pryce would be the biggest loss for me (bigger than Graham and Kyle). Lomax, Lance and Pryce is a quality trio and would give us strong options in midfield as our pivots.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:56 am  

Blobbynator wrote:

I agree, losing Pryce would be the biggest loss for me (bigger than Graham and Kyle). Lomax, Lance and Pryce is a quality trio and would give us strong options in midfield as our pivots.

Yep, I agree.

Lomax = fullback
Pryce = stand off
Lance = scrumhalf

Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:02 am  

St pete wrote:

Because we don't like paying big wages. We like doing things on the cheap. If we can get a young untried kid in to replace Leon then we will.

Bunkham.

We offered Eastmond as much as Bath, so that was not cheap, but he wanted the Union international game and focus.

No young half back has been offered anything from Leon's wage. Fact.

Eastmond has not been replaced by youth fact (Lance is his replacement and years older)

Leon's money is still there he will be on a big contract, if not the biggest at Saints, if Bradford or Cats can better that, then he will be pulling down one of if not the biggest wages in SL. I'm sure if we had offered Pryce TP's money to boost his contract and lose TP to warrington. TO secure him when he was still injured we would have all called the board stupid for losing TP.

Sounds like both Pryce and the club have organised a time for contract talks once he is fit. So lets give it a few weeks once he's had a run of games and then start making up stories about Saints signing some replacement from the academy.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:05 pm  

I'd like to see us keep Pryce. Especially if his wage wouldn't be spent on another first teamer.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:35 pm  

http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=501425 Unsubstantiated rumour of confirmation?

http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=501425 Unsubstantiated rumour of confirmation?

Re: Pryce leaving? : Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:18 pm  

He's going. Expect an announcement by August.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:33 pm  

McClennan wrote:

He's going. Expect an announcement by August.

Re: Pryce leaving? : Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:40 pm  

I said a week or so ago in another thread

Meli said at a Forum "Leon is going, where is not known but he is going"