Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:11 pm  

St pete wrote:

Unless the club if the ok to talk to other clubs. We let longy talk to clubs before September.

I doubt very much that saints would let TP talk to any club if we want him to stay.

Tapping up happens all the time in rugby league and it's pretty easy to get round in a sport where everyone knows everyone. It can happen thru players and most often thru players agents. I bet TP agent will look after players at Warrington.

It's wrong but happens. Every club does it.

Of course it happens. I knew LMS and Shenton had signed for Saints around June/July last year. Just scrap the "approach by rule" and that's it.

If a player is out of contract he should have the right to seek out his future employment like any other person.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:16 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Of course it happens. I knew LMS and Shenton had signed for Saints around June/July last year. Just scrap the "approach by rule" and that's it.

If a player is out of contract he should have the right to seek out his future employment like any other person.

I knew about Shenton myself. I also knew pryce was coming to saints about 12 month before he signed.

All clubs do it.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:07 pm  

Sign him up.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:22 am  

There's a few of you on here who sound like you've known Graham will be off for a while?

If this is the case, why did your board let Hargreaves come to Bradford? I know he's not in the same league as Graham, but he is a very solid, hardworking prop and if you'd have kept him it may have help offset the loss of Graham.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:04 am  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

If this is the case, why did your board let Hargreaves come to Bradford? I know he's not in the same league as Graham, but he is a very solid, hardworking prop and if you'd have kept him it may have help offset the loss of Graham.

Some of us have been asking the same question! We let a number of players go last season, possibly to help fund Kyle Eastmond. But we never get to know whether Saints let them go or they wanted to go. It's possible that Hargreaves wanted to go. Who knows? Either way, some of us wish he was here now, never mind when Jammer departs, because we don't have any staff left!

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:28 am  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

If this is the case, why did your board let Hargreaves come to Bradford?.

To bring in Aussie test prop Josh Perry? Fair swap in my book.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:01 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Of course it happens. I knew LMS and Shenton had signed for Saints around June/July last year.

Quite correct! it is funny how the rules are only supposed to be for one club! but they are allowed to flout them freely?

I think that any young home developed player who signs for another club at the end of a contract the club should pay a compensation fee to be decided by the RFL, some clubs may think twice if such as LMS was rated highly and commanded say £150,000? then again I remember many friends? lol on this board not welcoming LMS and saying how they had youngsters in the reserves much better!

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:44 am  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

There's a few of you on here who sound like you've known Graham will be off for a while?

If this is the case, why did your board let Hargreaves come to Bradford? I know he's not in the same league as Graham, but he is a very solid, hardworking prop and if you'd have kept him it may have help offset the loss of Graham.

Because for Saints to move on we need better than Bryn Hargreaves. There is a reason he ended up at Bradford and it wasent for the weather.

Saints have a young prop called Carl Forster who will make it, injured at the minute funnily enough but it's short term.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:48 am  

Obsessive Saint wrote:

Because for Saints to move on we need better than Bryn Hargreaves. There is a reason he ended up at Bradford and it wasent for the weather.

Saints have a young prop called Carl Forster who will make it, injured at the minute funnily enough but it's short term.

Thought I read that Forster is out for another 12 weeks.

I think it shows that frodsham has no future at saints, we've Massine injury problems and still not been called back.

Re: Puletua Has Been Offered New 2 Year Deal : Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:43 am  

St pete wrote:

Thought I read that Forster is out for another 12 weeks.

I think it shows that frodsham has no future at saints, we've Massine injury problems and still not been called back.

He's not even had a look in at Widnes. Shame.