Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:30 pm  

Not long now until you guys are back where you belong (fingers crossed)

I was wondering how you think your squad will look compared to now when you start in the SL. Who will still be there , who will be binned off and who do you see as targets to stregthen your side. Complete overhaul?? or a few tweeks????

Saints fan in peace.

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:37 pm  

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:45 pm  

Cheers mate! I feel we'll bring in about ten or so, squad pretty young so think a lot would drop into SL reserves / fringe for a year or two not released full stop.

Rumours grow about Mr Lockyer and that's coming from AUS, imagine that being 1st name signed on? We'll see.

Think we'll need a few key first teamers and only lpoking to sign about 4 from NRL apparently so something like...

Wing - Can see Ade Gardner tbh with you. Would love Luke Burt!
Centre - NRL - Hodges or someone like that with rep days behind them.
Half back - spend big can see a Lockyer type in dream land, maybe Sean Long?
Hooker - must IMO good starting hooker, Ennis would of been top bill (Newton was linked RIP). Chad Randall type?
Prop - Big enforcer to start us off, need to see who available. Likes of Luke Bailey from NRL.
Back row - real tackling machine like a Nathan Hindmarsh type.

Can see a few SL squad players coming in, likes of Peter Lupton to add experienced.

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:54 pm  

J20 wrote:

Cheers mate! I feel we'll bring in about ten or so, squad pretty young so think a lot would drop into SL reserves / fringe for a year or two not released full stop.

Rumours grow about Mr Lockyer and that's coming from AUS, imagine that being 1st name signed on? We'll see.

Think we'll need a few key first teamers and only lpoking to sign about 4 from NRL apparently so something like...

Wing - Can see Ade Gardner tbh with you. Would love Luke Burt!
Centre - NRL - Hodges or someone like that with rep days behind them.
Half back - spend big can see a Lockyer type in dream land, maybe Sean Long?
Hooker - must IMO good starting hooker, Ennis would of been top bill (Newton was linked RIP). Chad Randall type?
Prop - Big enforcer to start us off, need to see who available. Likes of Luke Bailey from NRL.
Back row - real tackling machine like a Nathan Hindmarsh type.

Can see a few SL squad players coming in, likes of Peter Lupton to add experienced.

Looks like a bunch of has beens, surely with a 3 year breather you can give your yoof the chance to progress rather than providing yet another pension plan job.

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:04 pm  

Norman Bates wrote:

Looks like a bunch of has beens, surely with a 3 year breather you can give your yoof the chance to progress rather than providing yet another pension plan job.

Only players their could list as 'has beens' (age wise) would be Lockyer, Bailey, Hindmarsh all still playing NRL currently! And Sean Long who is the best 7 in SL history. So that's... 4 out if a 24 man squad!

Fax have more than that now did you read it our was that a pre-empted comment?

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:11 pm  

it matters nought who we bring in. for all who dare to stand before the viking horde will be torn asunder!

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:46 pm  

Looking at about 12 coming in IF we get the nod, 7 home growners and a few kept on from this year.

I would keep the below for SL

Ropati
Finnigan
Allen
Kavanagh
Sculthorpe (if fit)
Haggerty junior
Pickersgill
Flynn
Ianson
Thackeray

Youngsters

Grady
Craven
Brown
Mullally
Gore
Hulme
Leuluai
Owens
Gilmore

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:49 pm  

Rolls Royce wrote:

Not long now until you guys are back where you belong (fingers crossed)

I was wondering how you think your squad will look compared to now when you start in the SL. Who will still be there , who will be binned off and who do you see as targets to stregthen your side. Complete overhaul?? or a few tweeks????

Saints fan in peace.

Thanks for your kind comments. At this moment in time I don't know what to expect in terms of our squad make up if we get the nod. Our chairman has indicated that he is prepared to spend the money to build a side not only capable of being competitive but of competing for trophies. With the money he has and more importantly the desire he shows you would not want to bet against him.
I think more importantly the side that we will have in 2 - 4 years will be the one that will be the most exciting for many of us when some of these youngsters form the core of our squad.
Craven, Owens, Gore, Gilmore, Gerrard etc etc.

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:03 pm  

J20 wrote:

Cheers mate! I feel we'll bring in about ten or so, squad pretty young so think a lot would drop into SL reserves / fringe for a year or two not released full stop.

Rumours grow about Mr Lockyer and that's coming from AUS, imagine that being 1st name signed on? We'll see.

Think we'll need a few key first teamers and only lpoking to sign about 4 from NRL apparently so something like...

Wing - Can see Ade Gardner tbh with you. Would love Luke Burt!
Centre - NRL - Hodges or someone like that with rep days behind them.
Half back - spend big can see a Lockyer type in dream land, maybe Sean Long?
Hooker - must IMO good starting hooker, Ennis would of been top bill (Newton was linked RIP). Chad Randall type?
Prop - Big enforcer to start us off, need to see who available. Likes of Luke Bailey from NRL.
Back row - real tackling machine like a Nathan Hindmarsh type.

Can see a few SL squad players coming in, likes of Peter Lupton to add experienced.

Yeaaaahh... apparently Thurston, Slater and Inglis are on their way to the shay next year as well

Re: Easy come / Easy go : Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:12 pm  

Electricityscape wrote:

Yeaaaahh... apparently Thurston, Slater and Inglis are on their way to the shay next year as well

Your the one's who like to bang on about our millionaire owner