Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:55 pm  

1984saints wrote:

you could pick two kids off the street and hope to get lucky if they was 18 year old kids i say ya give them a chance but ones same age as moore and clough and the other is same age as wheeler foster and others

They hope they get lucky and get one or two good players on the cheap.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:59 pm  

St pete wrote:

They hope they get lucky and get one or two good players on the cheap.

you got the last bit spot on two lads on peanuts to make up the squad numbers and a plus is they are irish

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:01 pm  

1984saints wrote:

you got the last bit spot on two lads on peanuts to make up the squad numbers and a plus is they are irish

Wouldn't mind if they turned out as good as the last Irish player we had at saints, tommy martyn

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:07 pm  

St pete wrote:

Wouldn't mind if they turned out as good as the last Irish player we had at saints, tommy martyn

wouldnt mind to dont forget our irish chris joynt as well

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:50 pm  

Brian Carney was a premium rugby league player, good enough to star in the NRL despite him being a nobody in his 20s when he was signed up to league.

If either are half as successful we'll have done well.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:12 am  

St pete wrote:

A lot of Saints fans seem to get all excited with size or speed. It don't matter how big or fast you are if you can't pass, tackle, beat a man etc.

They will have the basic core skills of passing and tackling as they have played rugby union to a reasonable level.If they will make it or not remains to be seen but its worth a try.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:25 am  

Did we decide whether we'd be seeing them playing in Friday's u20s game?

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:38 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Did we decide whether we'd be seeing them playing in Friday's u20s game?

I dunno. I'm about to top myself because they are all just rubbish anyway and there is no hope for us and people on here are freakin depressives ...

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:52 am  

I've got no problem at all with these signings. Obviously it's a bit of an experiment, but it won't be costing us much money. The worst case scenario is that we'll end up helping out Irish RL, and if we're lucky we might get a decent squad member.

Re: Saints sign 2 Irish players : Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:02 pm  

Dux wrote:

I've got no problem at all with these signings. Obviously it's a bit of an experiment, but it won't be costing us much money. The worst case scenario is that we'll end up helping out Irish RL, and if we're lucky we might get a decent squad member.

What if they're getting paid Matt King wages?

Best case scenario is they could both be world class in league. Some people on here are so negative.