Excellent news for Saints. Losing Graham is a big loss, but the rest are big wages being moved off the bill at just the right point and age, injury and form begin to wane.
Our pack is very good and the kids have shown their quality this year it will give us alot of rotation next yea if we can get a run of fit players.
Hookers : Roby, Moore
Props: LMS, Perry, Clough, Puletua, Megennis
2nd Row: Soliola, Laffranchi, Dixon, Ashurst
Loose: Wilkin
Half backs: Lance, Gaskell, Lomax, Wheeler
Centres: Meli, Shenton
Wingers : foster, gardner (looks likely with his current form, keeping on a rolling contract much better player)
Fullback: Wellens , Nathan Ashe, makinson
Then there are some other young players ready who can put their hands up for a game.
There is also alot of cross over, such as Wheeler can play centre and loose.
Lance can play FB and half back.
For the first time in a long time we are probably weaker in the 2nd row than elsewhere. But then they do say Saints can only produce 2nd rowers. lol
With Flannery, Pryce, Eastmond, Graham all out this year, you would imagine there should be some money left from Puletua, Lance and Laffranchi.
If you swap Eastmond for Lances money, and flannery's wage added onto Puletua's money, i doubt Laffranchi would take the rest of Pryce's and Grahams wage, so there must be another signing or 2 in the offing.
They would have to be british as we are full on non-federation players, but still some more space in the Saints family.
