As I said, a hundred NRL starts in nine years. There are almost as many millimetres on his hair do.

Les Boyd, Alfie Langer, Joey Johns - All over 10 years ago and come on, Johns played 3 games for you...

Bret Hodgson and Matt King - Fair enough.

The Monaghans and Chris Sandow - Only singed because of off field incidents, probably the first club to put offers in.

Ben Barba maintained that his lifelong ambition was to join saints. He was so pleased when he signed that he celebrated by hoovering up some castor sugar. He also took up a 12 month sabbatical away from RL, just before joining, to improve his game in the face of even higher standards at the much esteemed St Helens.

I'm bored of hearing about Ben Barba, I'm not even a Saints fan. I never said he didn't sign on the back of a bender that got out of control but just because he did it doesn't change anything when it comes to The Monaghans and Chris Sandow.

Tbh, it is getting a bit daft. You've just (unintentionally I think) taken the saints side in a wire v saints ding ding and you're getting some bullets because of it.

Back to the op, to be fair, if saints can keep hold of Barba whilst naiqama plays, then they will have an extremely dangerous backline.

But these daft ding dongs stem from posters like as108 posting stuff like this earlier on in the thread:



I Have to say though, I will defend my club every time against this rubbish.

I hadn't seen that, I just thought it was unfair to say they'd not signed anyone decent in the last 10 years (or what ever you wrote). I have however been impressed by Roberts this season for Wire so not sure what he's on about.

Shows we have a longevity for it then and why does it matter how many games he played? the greatest adorned this league in a Wire shirt and then even came back for pre-season training a few times as a coach... Michael Monaghan never signed because of any off field incident, and he is one of the very best foreign imports we’ve ever had.

What you fail to take into consideration is the fact Saint's were going through the throes of building their own stadium during the period you allude to.

In that case, don't (referring to a few saints fans) come on here trying to belittle other club's signings when you know your own signings aren't anything to shout about.

Are you drunk again lad? To be fair, AS108 just claimed he didn’t rate Roberts to which you went into rage mode and claimed all saints signings have been rubbish

Regards

King James

You’re laughable, so because our recruitment hasn’t been brilliant (we’ve still made the semi final every season in this dreadful period you talk about) we can’t criticise any Warrington players. The reality is the signing of Barba and Holbrook as coach are both better than any signing Warrington have ever made. And I’ll criticse Tyrone Roberts as and when I like because quite frankly, he’s garbage. Moran might be loaded but I bet he’ll be gutted come the end of the season, when Roberts es back home, to see he’s literally thrown £300,000 down the drain.

Is this a joke? He’s literally been one of the worst scrum half’s in the league along with the likes of Finn and Littlejohn. The highest payed player in SL is one of the worst in his position. Hilarious really.

You are an idiot and an embarrassment to us saints fans

Regards

King James

I think I can cope with that coming from you

Usually, when one of your signings become Man of Steel (Superleague Era) its a pretty good yardstick to shout about:-

Saints 7
Wigan 3
Castleford 3
Leeds 2
Huddersfield 2
Bradford 2
Hull 1
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Warrington............ [size=150 Zero[/size

And the last one for saints was Graham in 2008.

The difference between the 2 clubs is that in the 10 years since then, we have signed 2 MOS players,at the time of holding the award, to your 0.

So thanks Judder Man for re-affirming that saints fans are on tricky ground belittling other clubs' signings.

You need to understand that most of your signings are “After the Mayors Show”.

Lets be totally honest I dont think anyone except the signing of Barba could be lorded as massive overseas signings. Gone are the days when genuinely top players used to sign over here, we will never ever see as many of the likes of Lam, Barrett, Vainikolo, Hape, Renouf, Puletua, Lyon, Gidley etc etc etc. Personally Barba is justifying all the hype he is getting as he is tearing the comp to shreds. We will not see another elite player in their pomp come over here again without a misdemeanor stopping them being signed in the NRL and thats a sad indictment of where our game is

They're a damn sight better than yours overall in recent times except Barba. Even one of your saints posters gives a reason, a few posts back, as to why your signings have been poundstretcher in recent years.

Look, just be pleased that your playing well again after a number years of boredom. You're playing totally wicked rugby in the totally wicked stadium with a statue of Kieran Cunningham proudly watching over- pure utopia. The crowds are on the up again with the folk from the wheeled houses returning- all is good.

(By the way I agree with your post thepimp007).

Its a bit of a strange arguement about who recruits the best players, surely you only recruit players to supplement the players you've brought through your own academy.

So if you're recruiting a lot of players it means your not doing too good a job developing your own.

So recruiting more players than another club isn't really something to boast about.

Just a thought

If you read the thread properly, you'll find I'm responding to the usual saints mickey taking of other sides' recruitment when theirs is hardly anything to write home about.

How hard is it to understand that no one has taken the mickey out of anyone’s recruitment. There’s a difference between criticising a player and criticising the clubs recruitment.

So you’ve signed players who were playing very well at the time but now they’ve signed for Wire, they’re failing to hit the heights again? Also, I wouldn’t worry because we are about to have another soon enough.

There is some justification in it, for example your great signing of Tyrone Roberts is probably one of the worst half backs in Superleague only has 1 try and 3 try assists with loads of errors, I reckon you could have signed coronation streets Tyrone Dobbs he would have done a better job and saved you money in the process.

This is serious now-are you really this thick?

Even LeBron James is saying you're an embarrassment to saints fans!!!!!!!!