Wasnt it more something like his gf was going travelling and he wanted to go with her so he asked Endacott to find him an NRL club?

I rated him in the few games he played at the end of 2009, and he made 20-odd appearances last season for the Tigers and didnt disgrace himself. Fair play to him for giving it a go. Must say though would have preferred he was going Widnes rather than the old enemy!

Think he will go very well, very clever player and will add considerable strike in the back row. Very clever player indeed.

Based on his form from the back end of 2009, I'd have said yes, but not seen enough of him since his move to Wests to judge on current form.

If you dig out some old posts from when his leaving was announced, there were a lot of us disappointed to see him go.

A lot of people liken Flannery to Phil Bailey so with me watching him week in week out whilst at Wigan I'd compare Flanagan against Bailey. Doing that I believe Flanagan was/is the better player. He can do everything Bailey could but he'll bring a better range of attacking skills to the table. He can graft like a Bailey/Flannery put also produce a little bit of skill to unlock a defence. I remember him coming up with a couple of sublime flick passes in the semi at Widnes against Warrington and just generally looking like if let of the leash he could make things happen in his short time in our first team.

Good business by Saints IMO.

This is of vital importance.

A shrewd signing for Saints. Works like a machine and has a great pair of hands. A very talented, English player and he could turn out to be a top signing for Saints.

Some really good feedback on here - he's on the bench for Wests at the weekend so I'll give it a look.

It'll be a shame disliking him when he takes the field against us really, was always pretty impressed by him.

great signing and I'm very very jealous!!!!!

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that was the best sketch i've seen in a while

DOGGIES BRO DOGGIES

Was initially disappointed when he left. My first reaction was again to be disappointed that he wasn't coming back, especially with him going to the enemy. However we have plenty of quality and numbers in that position so I can see why we haven't gone for him. Think he'll go well for saints.

I'm of the opinion that when he stated playing for the first team he was showing real a hint of real talent. 2 years learning in the NRL and still young, could have a great career ahead of him.

Very good signing by saints.

I assume its because he worked with Royce Simmons before and so he knows him and feels better going to him than back to Wigan where we have completely changed our setup.

Good luck to the guy

Agreed completely.

Or a lot more likely to be the fact that we weren't in for him as he wasn't that special to begin with and we now have a back row in which he'd be about 4th or 5th choice?

I'm pretty sure we actually had first option to sign him when he came back to the UK.

As do Saints - Flannery/Wilkin/Soliola will be ahead, with Moore/TP (if not propping) in the mix too.

I wasn't meaning he isn't a decent signing for Saints, just the post I was answering to was insinuating that he might have chosen Saints over Wigan.

Nah, very much doubt Wigan were in for him or he'd be back with you IMO.

Exactly

Agreed. If he was at Wigan now he wouldnt have a sniff of the first team. Even when he was here before he only played a handful of games at a time when we had a far worse team and had far less options than we have now.

Flanagan has done well at getting a contract at Saints considering there was talk of him joining Widnes. All the best to Mark even if he hasn't played that much this year in the NRL he would have developed into a handy player for Saints.

Don't forget LaFrenchy or whatever his name is

Signed to play prop (propping for Gold Coast recently)