exactly the same as some of our youngsters that you seem to like to say we just dumped, got rid of for aussies.

I am not talking about your club. All I am saying is that Saints tried very hard to keep Graham especially. Given the Salary cap we made him an outstanding offer, and at the end of the day his decision was more to do with a lifestyle change, broadening his horizons and trying to improve as a player in a better league

He as a point though doesn't he.

some of you men (not saying you) slated us pre-season for letting 4 over seas players leave and bringing 3 in..The turnip Saddened being the main one.
the fact we bring more academy players through than anyone didn't matter.

Probably because you had 8 of them at the time (Roberts, Richards, Feka, Bailey, Carmont, Tommy, Phelps, Riddell off the top of my head) whereas we have 5.

Not to mention we tried desperately hard to keep the two english players leaving us this season by offering them massively lucrative long term deals.

i am not going to criticise you for your recruitment policy because every club does what it thinks is best for it at that time. To be honest with you despite what you guys think of him, we are losing unquestionably the best prop in superleague aged 25 and replacing him with lesser players over 30.

This will unquestionably make us weaker and hence for anyone to say that this is something that we engineered or hoped would happen is quite frankly laughable.

As a Wigan fan I can't blame saints for not keeping Graham or Eastmond. It seems Graham wants to test himself in the NRL and I don't think there is anything Saints could have done to stop him. Eastmond reminds me of Ashton, great prospect but too interested in chasing the cash before he's proven himself. Maybe it'll work out for him like it did for Ashton, but I wouldn't be surprised if biscuit ankles comes crawling back in a year or two like Lee Smith. I certainly don't blame Saints for not throwing half their cap at him!

As for them signing overseas players, you've got to get the best team you can out weekly. I've been impressed with the likes of Wheeler, Lomax et al but you need experienced heads to mix in with them in my opinion, if the English players aren't available then you have to sign from overseas.

As for scum, don't be so bloody stupid.

Edit: On topic, I think this is good news for Saints, Puletua always looks dangerous against us and is a quality player, would have been a big loss.

I don't think it's to do with the fact that you're losing British players like Eastmond and Graham that bothers anyone, it's just the fact that Saints are having to replace them with Aussies that are towards the end of their careers.

It's not surprisng that you have to do it to try and maintain a quality squad, it's just that some of yours fans are proving themselves to be hypocrites after criticising Wigan so much for it.

Thank you, finally someone who see what i do

If we were starting from a position of 8 overseas players (excluding Harrison Hansen) like Wigan last year, you might have a point.

In case you hadn't noticed, we aren't.

how did i know this thread would have turned into idiots comparing how many overseas players each teams have?

grow up you bunch of boring d!cks

Plenty of criticism from the saints fans when Ashton left us, that 'we should have paid anything to make him stay', lo and behold, the same thing happened with Eastmond, of course the saints fans reaction is totally different; that's actually what people are talking about not so much the amount of overseas players in any squad (obviously some are pointing out that you've taken on 2 more 30+ aussies in it for the pay day.