do you think he will be your regular goal kicker this season?

Apparantly he's not been seen since last week after stepping out of the car into the snow at training.

Presuming he's found, he'll have to be the regular goalkicker. There isn't anyone else. But given that he'll surely not play every game one does worry what will happen in the game he misses. I hope they bought Matt Gidley a kicking tee for Christmas and made him practice through the off season. He does little else these days so he couldn't contribute a little as backup kicker.

really?

<goes to change fantasty team>

He'll be picked for every game he's fit for, but going off last season he will miss a good 5-10 games next season IMO through injury.

to be fair alot of young players miss a few games early on in their careers...

i think im going to leave him in my fantasy team... its a risk worth taking.

If Eastmond does miss a few games, which is pretty inevitable I reckon, the cover for him would probably be Wheeler, maybe Lomax? Both can kick goals. Either way, I can see these two featuring a lot more this season injuries permitting.

Jamie Foster is a machine with the boot but unlikely to play!

Remember him kicking 7/7 against Widnes last season

Best young goal kicker I've seen since Andy Farrell.

Surely we could fit this Foster kid in somewhere just for his kicking?

Maybe he'll get a chance if there's a few injuries numbers 2-5...

I think alot of people picked up on his weak defence when they saw him play at home to Wakefield last pre-season.

Last I heard was that Foster wasn't getting gametime in SL because he needed to bulk up, I'm sure he mentioned it in an interview somewhere too. Hopefully he will have done that in the offseason and we'll see a lot more of him.

Maccies breakfast, chippy for lunch and KFC for tea. He'd be ready in a month.

Correct. He mentioned he'd set himself a target weight to reach in pre-season. Think it was about 14/14.5 stone.

If it's Foster in the Steve Precott calender he seems a bit bigger!

Think it's the conditioners in there, not Foster

Wasn't that what people said about Tyrer?

He couldn't kick either though. But seriously, would we lose anything through sticking him on Gidley's wing?

I would imagine that subject ot injury and poor form Jamie will get a few games this year.

It all depends on how he progresses.

He has the height and centres footballing brain, a decent amount of pace (not blistering though) and also brilliant kicking peg.
What was lacking last year though was a lack of physical size. I suspect that was partly down to him not having matured physically enough to be put on a heavy weight/bulking up regime, without risking his long term fitness, due to his body being prematurely over developed.

There is much to look forward to this coming season at Saints, especially surrounding the further development of our young guns.

Goal kicking's not a problem. We've got Wello

i must be getting on a bit, i agree with you! he's not slow, and he cant possibly be worse value than ade currently. I think it was around 3/4 matches lost by poor goal kicking last year, am i about right with that?

=#FF0000Yes, you are right about that.

I'm =#FF0000AT LEAST half your age

You mean you're not as experienced.

well that too