Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:44 am  

Today's Times reports that he walked out on Bath at half time during last week's game at Sale, reportedly saying he'd had enough of union and wanted to return to league.

Would you lot want him back?

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:01 am  

Like I said on the VT

"I would imagine Hull FC are desperate for a half decent HB, can't see Wire going for him even with the Briers retirement, if they do then that's GO'Bs Wire career certainly finished."

Is it the usual silly rumour though or is there actual substance to it?

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:07 am  

Mystic Yed wrote:

Like I said on the VT

"I would imagine Hull FC are desperate for a half decent HB, can't see Wire going for him even with the Briers retirement, if they do then that's GO'Bs Wire career certainly finished."

Is it the usual silly rumour though or is there actual substance to it?

Comes from Mark Souster, the Times' union correspondent. Decent-sized article that includes a comment from the Bath club to the effect that they're helping Eastmond deal with various issues during what is clearly a difficult time for him. That the club have commented suggests to me that there's a degree of truth in it, although how much is anyone's guess. Just thought I'd flag it up because if a player of Eastmond's quality was to return to the game it would be a big deal for whoever signed him.

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:12 am  

Hull Fc should be sniffing round there now seeing what the score is

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:18 am  

One would hope we would be in the running. He'd be perfect for us, the individual threat to go with Walshys organisation.

But as much as I would love to see Kyle back at Saints, I think our brain dead fans burnt those bridges and we'll no doubt be tormented by him in a Wire, Wigan or Hull shirt for the next five years.

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:30 am  

Clearwing wrote:

Comes from Mark Souster, the Times' union correspondent. Decent-sized article that includes a comment from the Bath club to the effect that they're helping Eastmond deal with various issues during what is clearly a difficult time for him. That the club have commented suggests to me that there's a degree of truth in it, although how much is anyone's guess. Just thought I'd flag it up because if a player of Eastmond's quality was to return to the game it would be a big deal for whoever signed him.

I'm aware of the article but sometimes wonder about journalists putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5.

He might not be happy in Bath rather than union, he could just be generally unhappy.

His bridges are burned at Saints though so I doubt he'd come back to Saints.

Teams that would seriously consider this I would imagine would be

Hull x2
Catalan
Salford
Widnes

maybe Hudds at a push, can't see Wigan but that would be interesting purely because of the reason Matt Smith left Saints.

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:40 am  

Saddened! wrote:

One would hope we would be in the running. He'd be perfect for us, the individual threat to go with Walshys organisation.

But as much as I would love to see Kyle back at Saints, I think our brain dead fans burnt those bridges and we'll no doubt be tormented by him in a Wire, Wigan or Hull shirt for the next five years.

You normally make sense but in this instance your talking crap. Eastmond burned his own bridges by playing like a zombie when he'd made his call to leave. I dont speak for others but personally I respect a player who decides to leave as long as they put 100% in while they are still with Saints and being paid by us e.g James Graham. He showed a poor professional attitude and the crowd got on at him because of that and nothing else.

Bridges can always be rebuilt especially in professional sport but I honestly cant see him back at Saints. In fact if he did want a league return I wouldnt be shocked to see him in the NRL. If he wanted to stay in the UK then I guess Salford would be front of the queue with the good doctor flashing his cash

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:17 am  

Will be interesting to see how this develops (if at all.)

I'm not sure how I feel about him, he burnt his bridges here for sure, and some of his final performances we some of the laziest I've ever seen ...

BUT I can see the benefits of him coming back - he'd be off cap as an RU international (presumably) and he'd solve our halfback problem - we did put a lot of eggs in this basket with regards players we retained at the time

There would have to be a lot of grovelling on Kylie's behalf (which I don't think would happen) but could be the return of the prodigal son ...

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:01 am  

Why would he need to grovel? Plenty of teams would sign him given the chance

Re: Kyle Eastmond : Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:55 am  

MrPhilb wrote:

Why would he need to grovel? Plenty of teams would sign him given the chance

he'll cruise into plenty of teams as mentioned above - he'd need to make up with Eamon to come back to Saint though which would take grovelling (and why I can't see it happening)