Quote ="Egg Chasing"It's gone on for years and isn't just saints. Pretty sure something was brought into football to stop it happening there.
IMO the England doctor should be independent to clubs and should decide whether a player returns to their club or not.
It needs fixing anyway. You wouldn't see Cleary pull out of Origin to play for Penrith'"
Origin has prestige with the players, putting 50 past a half baked France side doesn’t.
Saints culture is oft cited as one of the main reasons why we haven’t been completely gutted by the NRL (yet), and the double edge sword of having Saints players buy into that culture is this; them pulling out of games they see as contrary to their aim. Make the fixture more important and you wouldn’t see Saints players pull out.
All that being said, on form only Lees deserves to even be in the conversation, and he’s probably one most at risk of sitting it out anyway.
