Made up with all of them and pleasantly surprised with Hodgson's 2 year deal.

and its a massive two fingers to that wiggy lover from Sky who said on Monday night that with our team chock full of knackered old over 30 year old players its either poop or bust this year...

well there you go you horrible wiggy lover.........its always our year as a saints fan you should know the chant

100% of their wages count .

Andy last at hull came out of retirement during their injury crisis* a while ago, his entire coaching salary counted


*can we actually refer to hull has having an injury crisis? it seems to have been going on for 6/7 years now.

cheers kittydrizzle. without wishing to derail this thread, which is very positive, does just being registered count? does that mean all of sean long's wages are now included in the salford cap, and the same with lee radford at hull?

very surprised about hodgson getting a 2 year deal, considering huddersfield only offered him 1 a few years back. suppose tony smiths philosophy of resting and rotating players is obviously paying off this year and players are getting more time to recover/get fit. lets hope he can last the 2 years and teach some of the younger players, otherwise i suppose a coaching role could await!

He might actually be spot on. Who knows?

We are In one Final 2 weeks time by the way,What will you be doing??

Oh we are sitting pretty in the League in 2nd place in order to get to another Final!!!But like you say who Knows!!

And they have to do with next season how exactly?

Same thing with Lee Radford for this season.

Regards perpetual injury situation at Hull. Ever since the move to the KC, the serious injuries have been far too common. With the exception of 2005/06 (CC winner and Grad finalists) there has been multiple long term. Is it coincidence? Is it poor conditioning? Is it poor diagnosis? Is it just bad luck?

I hope Dave Solo does get a deal somewhere in SL. As a fan of the game I love watching him play, he is a complete one off. Perhaps, due to his injury and enforced rest from the game, it's recharged the batteries enough for another season or two?

Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with

Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with'" That was really interesting. Good find. Sad to hear GOB is out for the rest of the season - an action replay of last year. He has not had much luck.

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with'" That was really interesting. Good find. Sad to hear GOB is out for the rest of the season - an action replay of last year. He has not had much luck.

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with'" Who would you sign if any? If we resign to losing Dave, I would like to see Bateman come in like heavily rumoured throughout the year although it does seem to be looking less and less likely each day. Apart from that, I'm with Smith, I don't see where we need to strengthen...

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Don't know if this has been posted before but on the SL website in this article Smith talks about not making any signings for next season superleague.co.uk/article/25883/ ... stick-with'" Who would you sign if any? If we resign to losing Dave, I would like to see Bateman come in like heavily rumoured throughout the year although it does seem to be looking less and less likely each day. Apart from that, I'm with Smith, I don't see where we need to strengthen...

I'd go for a prop as cover.... not sure who though ?

Harrison & Cooper are the cover for our 4 front line props

Have a watch of the first half of this interview with Smith where he explains it actually means pretty much the opposite.

We should have a word with Warrington-Worldwide to see if they can get Smith to explain what Bridge did to deserve a sending-off at Huddersfield to solve that other mystery.

I hear you've been outbid for Bateman by Hull. Scary to think how much he will be being paid if that's true.

If true it happens. Last season Saints out-bid us for Tony Puletua, imagine how much he is on.

However I wouldn't be suprised if you're wrong on this and Bateman instead ends up in Australia next year.

I hope your right. Don't want anyone in the P&B with a rats-tail.

Doesn't Sol have one? You can tell him he can't have it if so...

I'm glad Hull are the new Warrington, in terms of getting the mantle of paying outrageous amounts for very mediocre players.

Firstly Eddie Hemmings is never spot on......

Secondly (In a John Bishop accent)……. he's a knob

Thirdly its widely regarded we have a very strong SQUAD, Hemmings himself often says this when We rest the Internationals like Carvell , Bridge, (and Solomona if you want,) and then still dry bum Saints at their own ground.....

Fourthly if its or bust for us what is for Wigan? Our players are only getting old, two of the three of wigans' most influential players are going back to Aus next year.....why not mention that every week

Fifthly Wires hadn’t won a trophy since the Regal trophy in 1992,Tony Smith has won us a major honour in every year he's been in charge. I’d say he has an idea what he’s doing….

Sixthly as already mentioned we are in another cup final admittedly its the major cup final that sky pretend doesn’t exists because its more famous than The Grand final, and admittedly we might not win it. But if we are going or bust we are having a very big poop before busting……

Seventhly we clearly have loads of talented kids coming through anyone who pretends otherwise hasn’t seen the under 20’s league table or read about our England Academy players.

Eighthly that’s enough

If its true I for one am glad

Just a feeling, but I bet Bateman has a long but fairly mediocre career and will be no better at 25 than he is right now.

I could be completely wrong; maybe it's the rats tail and all the obligatory tattoos at just 18 that makes me think he's a bit of a numpty

A much underused word, which in the correct context can convey so much. Well done sir!

I hope playing well in Two games warrants a new contract.