I guess the one part of the rumour is we will find out in about a week.



If true and we miss out I will be disappointed, he is a top half back that's available. If true and we just miss out then time seriously need to look at our recruitment process firstly in selection but also how we go about negotiating with these top teir players, we just missed out on Barbados not so long ago too, what's going wrong in the conversations were having that makes them choose saints wigan or Leeds over warrington. I know that the more likely to win the grand final will be one factor but we neither must not be selling ourselves or the plan to become a grand final winner very well?



Austin could go to wakey this season they have cap space? If he does ho there and we pay his wages effectively would that money still go against our cap ?

They might have cap space, but that's cos they don't have any money

Austin won’t be leaving till this season is over.

Yes.

If that's true I'm afraid pre-season warm weather training is going too far IMO

I can't see anything more than a short term loan with another club for this year then signing a 3 year deal with Wigan. Leeds have the cap space for a short term deal with Eastmond buggering off, Wigan never replaced George Burgess so have cap space and apparently Leigh have cap space.

I think he'll sign a short term deal with Wigan then become their marquee for next year with Hastings moving to the Tigers.

Interesting to see Warrington outbidding Wigan for Williams. Wigan now frantically scrambling around to find someone to force into retirement so they can afford to bring their homesick boy back whilst Warrington continue to push for glory. As a fan of a rival I've got to admire Moran, he's unrelenting in his quest to bring you the title. Whilst Saints and every other club in RL are looking for savings, he's out there throwing it around.



Also interesting to see the score from the Under 16s academy game tonight. Warrington 0 Saints 30, did anyone watch it? This is the age group where 14 of the Saints team were from Rylands. Most of the Saints team from Warrington beating the Warrington team from Oldham, Yorkshire and the Under 15s no doubt. If the effort into the academy setup matched the effort that clearly goes into recruiting established players for the first team, Warrington could dominate.

Well I'd do your research saddened seeing as at least 4 lads from that age group have already quit rugby and left saints amazing scholarship program.

He has a point though still.



The club have admitted themselves numerous times that they haven’t done enough in this area.

I'm not surprised. A year with no rugby and an uncertain future plus possibly decent paid work for some will always pull some away from the game.

I remember lots of posts on here when Lewis Charnock joined St Helens, where he was described as a definite star of the future.



An Under 16`s game, is essentially schoolboys level, so it is very difficult to predict growth rates, while some of the bigger lads dominate just because of their size, when a lot of them don`t grow any bigger.



It is very much a lottery at that age to predict who will progress to 1st team football.

Absolutely. I have seen countless number of youngsters who run through everybody at a young age and never develop passing skills. They suddenly find the game much more difficult when others catch up and start flattening them.