Am I right in thinking we tried to sign him?

If so, why didn't we? St's Salary cap must be bursting at the seams.

This would not be the first signing we have missed out on in recent years. Rumour aside I am aware that Lauatiiti nearly came our way and its well documented that we were talking to Dobson.

If the board didn't offer Puletua the right amount (and by that I would say he should have been made our top earner) then thats another nail in their coffin.

The bloke is a freak of a player.

Pretty sure his agent said in the Aussie press at the time that Hull and Saints were chasing him.

Fabulous player.

I really hope we didn't try and yet again miss out. He would have been some player in the Black n White, very impressed so far this season.

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Actually, St's got rid of a few last year including Scully and only brought him in iirc? They said they wasn't spending full cap.

Playing very well. When he was signed we got all the idiots telling us he was finished and that his brother (Frank) Puletua was the better player etc...

However that was bullsh*t. He is and always will be a much better player than Frank. He was awesome against you guys yesterday. Love the way he transfers the ball into each hand when running.

Aye...Rommell told us that......

And, as usual, no one believed him!

Pulatua's Agent: Tony 2 Super League clubs are after you for next year?
Puletua: Oh yeah Which clubs
Agent: One's St Helens the most successful team in superleague and the other ones Hull
Puletua: Who the feck are Hull
Agent: don't quite know but there only the second best team in Hull as Hull KR are the big boys in town
Puletua: Tell Hull to dream on i'm signing for the Saints playing with World class players

Nah. We got rid of Talau, Fozzard, Scully and Bennett at the end of last season, only bringing in Puletua. We didn't recruit for Talau at left centre; that's a favourite slot for our young guys to get their first grade debuts! We still have money under the cap.

I have to say, for just one signing we have dropped on really lucky. He's an amazing player.

Quite depressing for the opposition - Puletua runs riot, goes off for a breather and Fa'asavalu comes on.

how saints get under the salary cap amazes me...there support is terrible for a team that has dominated for the past 5 years or so......how can one team boast a team where every player was or is a full international ie: last season is making the salary cap a mokery......same goes for wire.......saying that though, with the new tax laws coming into place regards aussies having %40 of there wages put in offshore accounts, we'll soon see who is playing by the "RULES"....

is that what berrigan said

oh no wait

Why would Saints want Berrigan?

World class player that's why.

cause it was us and saints after him

Leeds actually.

They already have 2 of those at hooker.

Maybe thet were going to play him at 7.

World class 'Utility' player

I'm sure that Ali had basically signed for Leeds before we put an offer in for him, not that he turned us down

We are probably about 4th in the league for support and we are averaging about 12000 fans so far this season.
The salary cap we have 13 british players out of our starting 17 so we are not overfunding overseas players like the Wigoons for example.

I suppose Crocker and Lauaki were signed to be our Puletua type.
Shame it looks like we need Parlimentary help to bring them over.

indeed..a complete farce....hopefully a right result will eventually be given...

Exactly right. Physically big players, like Puletua, and boy do we need some of those.