rumours of fielden being at hull next year, dont know how true it is.

Coley concedes a few too many penalties for my liking, but he's a pretty good workhorse prop; but that's not to say there isn't better out there in the same sort of category who gives away less penalties.

Fielden puts in a lot of unnoticed work in defence, which I think we would miss if he left unless of course we got a similar replacement (realistically, who?) but on a much reduced wage I wouldn't be miffed if he was to stay.

Feka can leave pretty much as soon as possible; he's still a liability in defence. How people can defend him on the basis that his poor defence is worth it for good attacking runs and then slam Ainscough in the same next sentence for exactly the same thing.

Like who?

He's certainly better than players like Crabtree and Carvell who all seem to get a better press than him.

Other than the top three of Peacock, Graham and Morley i wouldn't swap Coley for any other prop in the league.

Off the top of my head I'd take O'Meley, Lynch, Scruton and Vella - I'm sure there's more.

Coley is certainly having a very good season though, fair play to him.

I'd take Lynch every time. Scruton is playing well also but for me i'd rather have Coley. Vella? No chance.

I was about to say the same myself, Vella had an excellent half season last year but is otherwise average IMO

Lynch is by far the best of the bunch listed. Just below the likes of Graham, Morley, Peacock

Coley is better than Lynch imo.

Scruton could be an option due to his age and potential but he's not currently a better player than Coley

Fair play, I rate Vella - perhaps it's just me



May be bias shining through but I'd also play Clough at prop for Saints before Coley - does a similar job but without the errors and penalties.

Can't agree with that at all - Lynch is comfortably better than Coley. We all have opinions though

Lynch is a better player then Coley without question imo but Coley is a fine prop and has come on leaps and bounds in the position in the past couple of years.

O'Meely and Scruton are having good seasons aswell and it's hard to split them but as for Vella he looks like he's ready to hang the boots up. He was a fine player for HKR for a spell but looks a little jaded nowadays.

The fact that it's a struggle to name a few players better than him outside the "big three" props shows just how well he is playing.

It's a shame he does have more than his fair share of errors and penalties in his game as without them he would be a really top drawer player.

Of course.

If we could have taken a couple of errors and pens away from him in the Leeds cup game he'd have been the best prop on the field but they just seem to hold him back a touch. He's still a fine prop though and if we can keep him for next season along with Fielden and then bring in another prop(possibly Luke Bailey or Jeff Lima) to help share the workload whilst we keep developing guys like O'Carroll, Prescott, Mossop and Davies we'll be doing pretty well.

Add in the option of a certain Gareth hock coming back mid season to play abit of prop/second row and we'll be able to match or better most other packs in superleague.

No question that pack looks very good. The derby could see some fearsome clashes up front next year with Perry rumoured to be on his way to Saints and hopefully Soliola added to the back row

Graham
Roby
Perry
Puletua
Soliola
Wilkin

looks a pretty tidy 6

Apart from the fact that Roby looks like spending his entire career as an impact player, that is.

Myth.

Bite.

and...he doesn't drink.

I'd thought Soliola had been brought in as a centre?

He was for this season, but I think the intention is for Wheeler to grow into the centre position (along with Shenton next year hopefully).

Good point. Wheeler looks the best out of the current Saints crop of youngsters that are around the first team. Soliola has played back row for the Kiwis before so no problem for him there. According to whispers the Shenton deal is pretty much done, just hasn't been announced yet

I though Wheeler was a stand-off? He doesn't seem to have the right build for a centre to me.

He is/was. He's performed really well in the centres for us though - nice step, good hands and can finish. He's not played much if any 6 in the first team. He may well have been pencilled in for a switch to 6 when Pryce leaves, but I'd like to think it would be Kyle/Gaskell in the halves and Wheeler in the centres in the fullness of time (if we can keep hold of Eastmond).

Lots of water to go under the bridge before then though.

Looking forward to seeing this Gaskell. Read lot's about him over on your board.