watching the bulls v dragons match. HT, just came in from the garden and they were showing leon and eddie said strong rumour he was going to sign for the french next season................

It's got so much smoke it can't really be anything other than a fire now hasn't it. It's a shame as when fit he's still our best player. Without him and Graham next season looks like torture to me as we slip further behind the pace.



Unless the club has a major signing lined up. The new stadium could do with a big signing and the ones we've made aren't particularly great and certainly don't equate in talent terms to those leaving.

There was a strong rumour he was signing for Bradford at one time, wasn't there?



But even if he does go to the Dragons, that doesn't equate to a nosedive for us. We've survived all season without him. Granted, we would have done better with him but we haven't nosedived this season (yet!) so I don't see why that should be any different next season, when we will have one experienced halfback plus three less experienced ones to choose from. Injuries allowing, of course.

If the Pryce move is correct then surley with Graham, Eastmond and Pryce leaving, there must be some spare capacity in the Cap for a top class replacement. The two that we have already signed for next season cannot have taken up that much of the SC space?



Leon, on his day, is a top class performer but unless I am mistaken, its nearly 12 months since he has played a full game and so life without him has been going on for some time.

Top Class Player coming for next season,,,,Isn*t Lance Hohia<sp> coming to Saints next season?...Excellent Signing...

Personally, I'd put Lance at FB, J-Lo/Wheeler/Gaskell in the halves, Wello to second row were his tackling is still a massive asset and Soliola in the centres where he's even more effective

Wellens misses almost 25% of his tackles, I'm not sure you could carry that for a second row forward.

10 missed and 89 completed means he only misses 10%, stop making up facts lol

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Wello's defence as Rogues has pointed out is not what it was and is worse than what you have stated.



For example in 2006 Wello completed 86% tackles missing only 19 all season while in 2005 he completed 90% of tackles missing just 22 all season



This season he is completing 81% of tackles and has already missed 20 tackles. So for me this shows a clear decline, especially when compared with his peers



Sam Tomkins, who some fans say isnt a fullback because he apprently doesnt have the defence, is currently completing 86% of tackles.

Brent Webb is completing 84 % of tackles.

Scott Grix is completing 85% of tackles



He is better than Richie Mathers though who is on 78% and Luke Patten of Salford on 76%

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I'd like to see lance at fullback as he'd bring them same quality greenshields does at catalan, he returns kicks very well and puts his team on the front foot from the kick, unlike wello who is slow to pick the ball up and as he's no pace the defence are on him and we then on back foot. IMO we need to replace wello next season.



However, the Gaskell and lomax pairing has gone pretty well and they have been terrific in the halves but IMO having the two young inexperienced halfbacks will cost us games against the big clubs. They can hold the own against "lesser" opposition but against Wigan, Warrington and hudds they have struggled big time. As I've said on another thread, we either stick with them and hope 2/3 years down the line they fully develop into top halves buy thats a risk and could risk falling further behind or we sign a top quality halfback.



Gaskell has great long kicking game but at the moment goes missing for long periods of the game. Lomax also goes missing for large parts of the game with showing the odd moment of brilliance. With them two in the halves puts more and more pressure on the pack( IMO the reason we done so well is our pack) which must be fustrating for the the pack when they do all the hard work for nothing to be produced or created at the end. Wilkin, TP, roby, Sia and jammer have been outstanding.



Jon wilkin has been awesome this year. He's took a hell of alot of pressure off our young halves. I can't give wilkin enough praise fir the way he's played this year and I think we'd be lower than we already are without him.



If Leon goes and we don't sort our halfback problem out and the likes of eastmond, jammer Defo going and flannery and ade maybe going we will struggle big time.



Pryce, jammer, eastmond, flannery, ade all out and lance and laffranchi in is the way our recruitment has been for past 5 years and looks like our brand new spanking stadium will not have the the team to "grace" it as sir mac has said many many times.