Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:26 pm  

TP will be at Warrington next year according to a current wire player

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:30 pm  

Does anyone know our overseas players situation next year?

If Graham flannery and TP leave we will need some experienced quality players to replace them.

With lance hohaia already signed mean we may have to replace them with English players and not many off contract worth taking.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:31 pm  

BIG ED wrote:

TP will be at Warrington next year according to a current wire player

Which Warrington player?

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:34 pm  

BIG ED wrote:

TP will be at Warrington next year according to a current wire player

A current saints player and a good mate of mine thinks he's going home.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:35 pm  

For family reasons he wants to go home.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:35 pm  

St pete wrote:

Does anyone know our overseas players situation next year?

If Graham flannery and TP leave we will need some experienced quality players to replace them.

With lance hohaia already signed mean we may have to replace them with English players and not many off contract worth taking.

Current situation:

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola, Puletua.

Overseas Quota: Flannery, Perry.

Next Year (assuming Flannery and TP leave):

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola.

Overseas Quota: Perry, Hohaia.

As I understand you are allowed 5 of each, so we will have 3 quota spots and 3 overseas trained spots (Kolpak etc.).

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:36 pm  

Puletua will NOT be at Warrington next year. 2 year deal at Saints or a return home to the NRL is the current situation.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:38 pm  

St pete wrote:

A current saints player and a good mate of mine thinks he's going home.

This sounds more like it as it chimes in with what has been said in the media.

Firstly, TP was offered a one year deal by Saints. TP asked for a two year deal. Saints offered him a two year deal. They had already given him compassionate leave during the off season to visit family and sort out some matters back home. He is now fannying about trying to sort out matters back home and giving Saints the runaround by the looks of it (TP didn't say it like that, obviously! He said he wanted to sort out matters at home and then hopefully he would be able to continue being at Saints)

I think the Warrington rumour has as much foundation as the one about James Graham a couple of seasons ago. For TP it will either be Saints or back home.

Personally, though, I'm getting totally bored of our players fannying about over their contracts. They are beginning to irritate me.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:43 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Current situation:

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola, Puletua.

Overseas Quota: Flannery, Perry.

Next Year (assuming Flannery and TP leave):

Overseas Trained: Meli, Soliola.

Overseas Quota: Perry, Hohaia.

As I understand you are allowed 5 of each, so we will have 3 quota spots and 3 overseas trained spots (Kolpak etc.).

I think Jason king and Trent waterhouse would two awesome signings for our pack. If TP does stay we'd have a top pack.

Perry
Roby
King
Waterhouse
Sia
Wilkin

That would do me with LMS, TP,clough and Dixon/ashurst/magennis etc on bench

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:46 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Personally, though, I'm getting totally bored of our players fannying about over their contracts. They are beginning to irritate me.

You need to keep in mind this is their lives and they are not breaking any rules. It can also work 2 ways, for instance and I'm speculating here but Leon Pryce is not having a great time injury wise at the moment, whats to say the club arnt fannying about with his potential contract offer to see i he makes a 100% recovery or if there's a better option on the market ?