Re: Rumours thread. : Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:40 pm  

Saddened! wrote: Unless the conservatives sort out the economic confidence in the pound the chances of us signing anything of quality from the NRL are massively reduced. thats a very good point. http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/mar ... _month.stm its gone from 2.1 to 1.6 ish in 12 months which is $100,000 less per year on a £200k deal.

Saddened! wrote: Unless the conservatives sort out the economic confidence in the pound the chances of us signing anything of quality from the NRL are massively reduced. thats a very good point. http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/mar ... _month.stm its gone from 2.1 to 1.6 ish in 12 months which is $100,000 less per year on a £200k deal.

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:02 pm  

Eric Grothe Jnr to arrive next month.

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:15 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Eric Grothe Jnr to arrive next month.

Youve been begging for some rock n roll in the saints team for a long time.

You dont get any more rock n roll than Eric Grothe Jnr and we get an enforcer to boot. He would fight his own shadow!

We dont have a quota spot though which is a shame, id love him at Saints

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:20 pm  

Craig Hall

Re: Rumours thread. : Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:43 pm  

Looks like Shenton is all but done from what i've heard.

Good signing imo. We could of done alot worse. The Aussies wont be coming over any time soon with how poor the pound is.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:39 am  

Loyal Saint wrote:

Looks like Shenton is all but done from what i've heard.

Good signing imo. We could of done alot worse. The Aussies wont be coming over any time soon with how poor the pound is.

What is your source. Don't mince about, just PM me. I'd love to know where these concrete signings come from.

By the way I heard mine in Asda in Golbourne, near the pie stall in a conversation between two randoms, thought nothing of it, then read in the paper how Grothe is looking to move to Super League.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:34 pm  

Gerry Mander wrote:

Craig Hall

He'd be crucified by the fans for his turnstile like defence.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:48 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

He'd be crucified by the fans for his turnstile like defence.

I think he is better than he was.

Definately looks as if british centres are being scrutinised.
It's all a game of cat and mouse. Howes was the agent
for both Shenton and Hall IIRC.

After the Roby / Wild situation it's clear that all parties
(Clubs , Players , Agents) play a bit of poker.
Add into this the Facebook revolution.

Hence there are a lot of rumours and not all of them
are Webcke like.

Golbourne ASDA seems the place to go.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:24 pm  

Not so much a rumour but i was talking to a number of our u15 scholarship coaches before and they have high expectations of our lads. We start our season May 8th vs Wigan and we have some great lads but the funny thing is hardly any of them support Saints. They're all Wigan and Warrington fans. We also have one lad who travels from Barrow twice a week for training and had to turn up to a bag packing excerside today for 3 hours, must be hard travelling that distance. His a good player aswell. The good thing at Saints is that all the youth lads seem to get on really well, despite them playing for rival amataur clubs.

Re: Rumours thread. : Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:55 am  

Justin Morgan to coach Saints from next season with a former player as assistant.