Looks like Wigan or Wire then. Another one we're letting get away.

Wigan are in for Paea in another article. Surely they won't sign both?

Why not?

Paea is free so they only buying Hopkins, they are losing mossop and Wigan are a club with ambition

Wigan loosing Mossop, maybe Hansen and Prescott, so Paea and Hopkins are a good start to replacing those players leaving/potentially leaving.

I think (hope) Hansen will stay. But Tuson is going to Wakefield.

How dare you!! We've re-signed Ade Gardner and Laffranchi!!

That's not what he said though was it?

Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.

He met with Eamonn, Brown and Rush 2 weeks ago last Wednesday at LP.

Quote ="St pete"Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.'" Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=552223&tsmp=1371329738&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.

Quote ="St pete"Forget my earlier posts. Saints are 100% in the mix for Hopkins. I was with few saints lads today and they feel confident he will be a saint.'" Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=552223&tsmp=1371329738&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 8&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.'" A Leyther signing for the scum? Traitorous.

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 8&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.'" A Leyther signing for the scum? Traitorous.

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 8&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.'" Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins signed for Wigan on Thursday: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 8&start=90 Page 10 onwards on the Leigh thread.'" Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?

Quote ="St pete"Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?'" Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board: Quote ="mr. chairman"Leigh east u18s won the national youth cup today 12-6 against Thatto Heath , we needed that , Wigan have also signed ex Leigh east forward Sam Hopkins from Leigh centurions . Having known Sam from a young boy and watched him come through the ranks at Leigh alli can say is you have signed a good un and a future international in the mold of peacock from Leeds . All this would not happen if there was no Leigh east'" Quote ="mr. chairman"Sam as signed and will be loaned back to Leigh for the rest of this season , he really is a future star , nice kid nice family . Sam as his feet firmly on the ground'" viewtopic.php?f=28&t=552208&tsmp=1371330617&start=50

Quote ="St pete"Not according to a saints player I was out with today. Well, he said that saints are after him and he thought he'd come. Was he at Wigan as a kid ?'" Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board: Quote ="mr. chairman"Leigh east u18s won the national youth cup today 12-6 against Thatto Heath , we needed that , Wigan have also signed ex Leigh east forward Sam Hopkins from Leigh centurions . Having known Sam from a young boy and watched him come through the ranks at Leigh alli can say is you have signed a good un and a future international in the mold of peacock from Leeds . All this would not happen if there was no Leigh east'" Quote ="mr. chairman"Sam as signed and will be loaned back to Leigh for the rest of this season , he really is a future star , nice kid nice family . Sam as his feet firmly on the ground'" viewtopic.php?f=28&t=552208&tsmp=1371330617&start=50

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 7&start=50'" I can only say what I was told today. I've not even seen him play or heard of him to me honest.

Quote ="MattyB"Hopkins is a product of Leigh East. The comments below are from the Ex-Chairman of Leigh East who is a regular poster on the Leigh Board: retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 7&start=50'" I can only say what I was told today. I've not even seen him play or heard of him to me honest.

Players are never the most reliable 'insiders'. We all assume they know stuff but quite often they are actually the last to know.

Saints players don't even know what position they are playing in until kick off, they wouldn't have a clue as to who the club are potentially trying to sign.

As most know on here, they been very reliable to me over the years on signings, injury news, team news etc.

Could this be another "Adrian Shelford" scenario. Verbally agreeing to come to Saints but on paper signing for the wigoons.

He told me Hopkins hadn't signed but saints was confident he would.

Lets be Honest though, if it was a choice between Wigan saints and Warrington then I'd certainly pick Wigan over saints. Wigan are the best team in super league, their coach backs all his young players and certainly isn't afraid to throw them (he gets a kick out of playing young lads) and they will pay better than us. Simple decision IMO

It makes you wonder if Hopkins would make the same step up as Chris Hill and perhaps Walmsley whilst neglecting our own. How good would Walker, Thompson and Greenwood look if they were playing for Leigh Centutions would they attract the same attention.
My preference would be to have Greenwood and Walmsley as our future props, plenty of physical size, speed and a potentionally a good offloading game.
Hopkins is a second row turned into a prop isn,t he, we have plenty of those at the club at the club at the moment.

When are we going to see our Andre Savelio making an appearance at prop this season.

I think Greenwood lacks the aggression to be a prop. He's a little soft. He runs good lines and prefer him running outwide where he's Made a good few line breaks.

Thompson could be a good prop when he beefs up a little, he's got the heart and aggression.

How many youth players have played this year? They've been the mainstay of the majority of our teams each week. I think it's unfair to say we've not used them this year, the only place they haven't been used really is half back, and in all honesty, had we thrown them in there it would have been like throwing them to the wolves considering the way we were playing and the lack of confidence throughout the team.

Wane put two young half backs into a winning confident team, that makes a major difference.

I think Wane shows great confidence in his young lads. I think he's been brilliant with them. He brought half of them thru and they keep their positions on merit if playing well.

Wigan seem to play with a rigid structure though. TBF to us, I don't think Brown knows what he is going to do from the first half to the second.

Having the same structure thru the youth and first team is a no brainer really but like you say, I don't think we know what we doing from one set to the next.