Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:18 am  

If all goes well next week Saints will be making a nice little announcement going into the play offs.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:47 am  

It would put some real pressure on Walsh and Burns to perform.

As he's always been a back up player for Salford, I don't feel like I've consistently seen him. What type of player is he naturally? Is he the 1st receiver organiser? Is he the 2nd receiver who likes to run with the ball? Is he the industrious support player?

I'm sure there were rumours abound last year that Joe Mellor was coming up available. He'd be my favourite pick of all the young British halfbacks. Weren't we supposed to be after another one of Widnes's youngsters? Someone who's best mates with Mark Percival?

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:47 am  

I haven't seen a great deal of him either, but I gather he's very quick. That would be a good thing in itself. Something else occurred to me when I was thinking about Fages as a potential signing the other day: it would be good for Levy Nzongou's development to have another Frenchman about the place.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:56 am  

Dux wrote:

I haven't seen a great deal of him either, but I gather he's very quick. That would be a good thing in itself. Something else occurred to me when I was thinking about Fages as a potential signing the other day: it would be good for Levy Nzongou's development to have another Frenchman about the place.

Indeed, seems KC has been playing Football Manager, so trying to prevent Levy being homesick by signing a token French player to make his morale jump up two notches.

I've seen virtually nothing of Fages to suggest he's worth signing. He never really established himself at Salford and don't remember him playing against us. I do remember being impressed by a couple of jinking runs at Widnes when he was very young, but that's about it.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:06 am  

Dux wrote:

I haven't seen a great deal of him either, but I gather he's very quick. That would be a good thing in itself. Something else occurred to me when I was thinking about Fages as a potential signing the other day: it would be good for Levy Nzongou's development to have another Frenchman about the place.

He's a bit like Johnny Lomax (including the skull cap) but a bit more creative, he got noticed when Rangi Chase was out on one of his long suspensions, was directing the team around the park. That was when the Doctor put an extra zero on his valuation to £700 000.
We should know end of next week if he is part of our long term planning.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:32 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

I've seen virtually nothing of Fages to suggest he's worth signing. He never really established himself at Salford and don't remember him playing against us. I do remember being impressed by a couple of jinking runs at Widnes when he was very young, but that's about it.

He's still very young. Just turned 21.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:30 pm  

I'd rather take a chance on Fages over O'Brien to be honest.

Re: Theo fages : Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:02 pm  

Hawkandro wrote:

I'd rather take a chance on Fages over O'Brien to be honest.

I'd be inclined to agree, Fages would seem to have more potential

Re: Theo fages : Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:29 pm  

LFC Saint wrote:

If all goes well next week Saints will be making a nice little announcement going into the play offs.

Do we have to pay off Salford?

Re: Theo fages : Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:52 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Do we have to pay off Salford?

As far as I know, the tribunal is to decide whether Salford have broken the terms of his contract. If he wins, then I think he'd be free to walk and there would be no fee involved. If he loses then I'd assume he's still a Salford player and they'll be able to name their price.