Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:58 am  

Saints are looking to offload burns to sign a quality hooker to work alongside roby.

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 5:05 am  

Also signing a quality young nrl winger next season.
if makinson gets back to his best there should be very healhy competition for the wing spots with swift

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:00 am  

A quality hooker?

Are we in for Danny Houghton? Or Josh Hodgson?

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:56 am  

saintcj wrote:

Also signing a quality young nrl winger next season.
if makinson gets back to his best there should be very healhy competition for the wing spots with swift

We need to make sure we don't sign a "midget" winger, very fast 6 footer with some timber is long overdue.

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:41 am  

Judder Man wrote:

We need to make sure we don't sign a "midget" winger, very fast 6 footer with some timber is long overdue.

Agreed. Enough of a back line made up of umpah lumpahs.

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:35 am  

Pelissier? I think he'd work quite well with Roby - Can't see Hodgson coming back any time soon, and I think Houghton's too similar to Roby.

As for the NRL winger its an interesting one. No names jump out in the Aussie Out of Contract list wingers wise, and we're probably going to face a lot of competition from Wigan since they've supposedly missed out on Carney - we might be better going after Hall or Mcgilvary with the threat of relegation hanging over their clubs

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:47 am  

saintcj wrote:

Saints are looking to offload burns to sign a quality hooker to work alongside roby.

Fact or roumor ?

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:59 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Pelissier? I think he'd work quite well with Roby - Can't see Hodgson coming back any time soon, and I think Houghton's too similar to Roby.

Aye. I'd imagine Hull would throw big bucks at Houghton to keep him, as well. I'd imagine it would be a young up-and-comer or a decent pro who's not quite top drawer (like, say, Shaun Lunt).

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

As for the NRL winger its an interesting one. No names jump out in the Aussie Out of Contract list wingers wise, and we're probably going to face a lot of competition from Wigan since they've supposedly missed out on Carney - we might be better going after Hall or Mcgilvary with the threat of relegation hanging over their clubs

Joe Burgess [grins mischievously]?

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:37 am  

Dux wrote:

Aye. I'd imagine Hull would throw big bucks at Houghton to keep him, as well. I'd imagine it would be a young up-and-comer or a decent pro who's not quite top drawer (like, say, Shaun Lunt).

Joe Burgess [grins mischievously]?

Burgess would be odds on to return to Wigan with Wane's "Prodigal Son's Club"

Re: Burns leaving for space to sign hooker : Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:51 am  

Burns is out of contract surely? We should be trying to get rid of him but not sure who would pick him up at this stage of his career.

If we've some money to spend we couldn't do much better than the kid Johnstone from Wakefield. Carney would have to come into consideration too, we are crying out for size and speed. Young Spedding looks to fit into the tiny mould of all our existing outside backs unfortunately.

Surely the only NRL wingers that would come over here are the English ones, anyone with an ounce of potential is much better off staying over there.