Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:00 pm  

St pete wrote:

Size doesn't mean good player.

It sure helps in a prop forward though! If he's an aggressive bar steward on the pitch as well then that's half the battle won without him ever playing the ball!

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:08 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

It sure helps in a prop forward though! If he's an aggressive bar steward on the pitch as well then that's half the battle won without him ever playing the ball!

I'm willing to have a little bet with you

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:18 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

It sure helps in a prop forward though! If he's an aggressive bar steward on the pitch as well then that's half the battle won without him ever playing the ball!

Do you remember Stuart Evans?
It didn't help him.


That aside I think it's something to be applauded and worth a try, but I remember reading on here how some fans were excited about Dom Brotherton.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:23 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Do you remember Stuart Evans?
It didn't help him.


That aside I think it's something to be applauded and worth a try, but I remember reading on here how some fans were excited about Dom Brotherton.

Ive no doubt we will never hear of these two ever again.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:48 pm  

You probably won't hear about Dom Brotherton as he doesn't play for Saints. You may hear about Dan Brotherton though.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:58 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

You probably won't hear about Dom Brotherton as he doesn't play for Saints. You may hear about Dan Brotherton though.

That's him but I doubt we will from what I've seen of him.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:30 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

That's him but I doubt we will from what I've seen of him.

Yeah, he sounds total tosh:

Dan Brotherton won the battle of the speedsters as Reece Lyne missed the high bomb it was gathered by Brotherton who beat two then stretched his legs to go 95 metres for the score.

The last word was Brotherton's hat-trick score in the corner after a good drive on his debut from 6 foot 7 inch Irishman Aaron McCluskey who got better and more menacing to the opposition as the game went on. **

Utter rubbish. Both of them. Clearly.

Let's ditch them now should we?




** Taken from the Saints website. But I'm sure Rogues will suggest it's all a lie and Pete will say it's one thing playing for the u20s, quite another for the first team ...

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:35 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Yeah, he sounds total tosh:

Dan Brotherton won the battle of the speedsters as Reece Lyne missed the high bomb it was gathered by Brotherton who beat two then stretched his legs to go 95 metres for the score.

The last word was Brotherton's hat-trick score in the corner after a good drive on his debut from 6 foot 7 inch Irishman Aaron McCluskey who got better and more menacing to the opposition as the game went on. **

Utter rubbish. Both of them. Clearly.

Let's ditch them now should we?




** Taken from the Saints website. But I'm sure Rogues will suggest it's all a lie and Pete will say it's one thing playing for the u20s, quite another for the first team ...

I haven't seen McCluskey so haven't commented on him, but I have seen Brotherton and haven't seen anything to suggest that he is first team material.
What's your opinion of him?

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:35 pm  

Get Brotherton in the first team. He can run. It's a rare attribute amongst our backs.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:37 pm  

So you want this bet saintsfan?

Hey, playing reserve grade is nothing like playing super league