Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"Is anyone going to pay top dollar for Eastmond until he can show he won't be injured so much of the time? Great prospect though, and I hope he both stays fit and with Sts.'"
Is a gamble, certainly.
People fussed (at the end of last season) when he only signed an extension to the end of 2011, but it was clearly intended to reveiw his first actual season at scrum half to make sure he was up the position, before making him sign another extension around now (without other suiters sniffing about).
In actual fact, he played the first half of the season and played it very well. Unfortunalty, that seems a long time ago and his string of crappy injuries are extremely frustrating. I can't imagine Big Mac sitting down to discuss further contracts.
There's no question of his ability, but until he can keep himself fit, he's going to remain reletively unproven. There's also going to be that doubt that he's just a bit soft with injuries that the likes of slimey sam would play on with.