: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:18 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Is there a website somewhere that has all the players' wages listed?

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:20 pm  

told you http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php? ... &start=990

told you http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php? ... &start=990

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:22 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

2009 2
2008 4
2007 10


You mean that injury record.

10 games in 2007 is what I was thinking of. Thought he'd missed a few more than four last year, to be honest. And you can hardly include 2009 as it isn't over yet.

If we were without a halfback for 10 games of a season, it could have a very detrimental affect on our performance - as we have seen being without one for the past two seasons. He's a good player, but I just have my doubts that he'll be able to cut it physically by the second year of his contract.

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:27 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

10 games in 2007 is what I was thinking of. Thought he'd missed a few more than four last year, to be honest. And you can hardly include 2009 as it isn't over yet.

If we were without a halfback for 10 games of a season, it could have a very detrimental affect on our performance - as we have seen being without one for the past two seasons. He's a good player, but I just have my doubts that he'll be able to cut it physically by the second year of his contract.

Some of our players are worse than that....and they are all younger

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:35 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

Some of our players are worse than that....and they are all younger

Quite. But halfback is the pivotal position - more so than any other in the team.

I look at it like this:

He's been at Saints for many years and has been a bloody good player for them. They have built their team around him. If they thought he had another two years in him - and bear in mind they know a lot more about the sort of shape his body is in - then they would have given him a two year deal.

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:39 pm  

i'm in two minds about this signing. on the one hand he's a great player and it's someone like him that hull need, but will he be another sicknote. at least it looks like thorman will be getting the boot.

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:39 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Quite. But halfback is the pivotal position - more so than any other in the team.

I look at it like this:

He's been at Saints for many years and has been a bloody good player for them. They have built their team around him. If they thought he had another two years in him - and bear in mind they know a lot more about the sort of shape his body is in - then they would have given him a two year deal.

True....may turn out to be their loss and our big gain......end of the day its a results buissnes ans if he gets the results...jobs a good un

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:45 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

Don't forget that he spent a good deal of time out because of the behaviour of others.

Costin did his knee. Newton smashed his face in. Same would have happened to any other player in that position.

Newton smashed his face in just before the play-offs so he didn't miss many.

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:46 pm  

FC_TILL_I_DIE wrote:

i'm in two minds about this signing. on the one hand he's a great player and it's someone like him that hull need, but will he be another sicknote. at least it looks like thorman will be getting the boot.

which can only be a good thing

: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:46 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

True....may turn out to be their loss and our big gain......end of the day its a results buissnes ans if he gets the results...jobs a good un

Oh, too right. If he's on the pitch, he'll be better than any scrum half we've had for many years. He's a very, very good player. I just can't help but think if he was worth a 2 year deal at this stage of his career, he'd have got one from the club he's built his reputation at and helped to win numerous trophies along the way.

I genuinely hope that at the end of 2011 someone drags this thread up and points out how wrong I was.