Tom

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@Saints1890 @SuperLeague @leedsrhinos Let’s play a game of will Davies make it off the bench this week or will the absolutely outstanding second rowers in red hot form that we have keep him from doing so…

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@paul_devanney @AaronBower Maybe not but I don’t think you could claim his signing has been a success. I still stand by my point that Daryl Clark is the only player who has turned into a real quality signing up to now anyway.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@TSBYQL19 Unfortunately it’s not just ex Salford players. There are players who won us a grand final in 2019 still playing for us. Time moves on, we as a club have not and we’re paying the price for poor decisions in recruitment and retainment.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@Poyser90 @AaronBower I think it just highlights how poor the recruitment has been. Some of those players signed have also been given new deals which I think is even worse!

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@sthelensstar What game was he watching?

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@GAohoe @CamDonDuncan That’s if they don’t renew feldt, sailor, hastings, Lomax, Wingfield and paasi which in my opinion if we’ve got any chance they can’t be giving deals to any of them. All our marquee spaces have been used for next season already too.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@RedVeeDotNet You think it’s going to get better? Not a chance. No way we can keep handing out these 2 and 3 year deals to bang average players at best. I understand it’s a salary cap sport but no way we can compete with a squad like this one. How we are where we are currently is beyond me.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@RedVeeDotNet Players for next yr & beyond
Welsby 27
Robertson 28
Percival 27
Cross 27
Walmsley 27
Clark 27
Lees 29
Wright 27
Sironen 27
Host 27
Delaney 28
Whitley 28
Whitby 28
Murphy 29
Stephens 28
Shorrocks 29
Burns 27
Dagnall 28
Macdonald 27
Douglas 28
Davies 29
Sinclair 29*
Humphrey’s 28*

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@AaronBower Just to go back to this recruitment from 2022-2026… Ritson, Mbye, Blake, Clark, Whitley, Feldt, Sailor, Murphy, Cross, Wright, Klemmer, Host, Shorrocks, Macdonald, Douglas, Hastings. 1 of 16 players I would argue has come in and been a genuinely good signing and he replaced Roby

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@AaronBower Honking recruitment doesn’t begin to cover it Aaron. In the last 3 years I think we’ve made one decent signing and that was Daryl Clark. In that time we’ve lost the likes of Matautia, Naiqama, Knowles, Makinson and ended up with Wright, Whitely, Shorrocks and Cross. Massive drop

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@Saints1890 Laugh all you want but Lomax is still the best half we have at the club. There is absolutely no way we can go into next season with sailor and Hastings at the club

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@suemorris76 @Saints1890 @LPL_Airport Correct, long term future looks just as bright as this second half

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@uggy7 In all fairness to him, he’s got a crippled/finsihed Percival and Matt whitely inside him… I’d have no clue how to defend with that either.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@Saints1890 Not one of these players looks interested today. This experiment with welsby at 6 didn’t work last season and it’s not working now. Rather have Lomax at 6 on a zimmer than this crap we keep serving up

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@Zippyarchie @M_Shaw1 Not sure how you go about shifting on an injured player under contract though. The annoying thing is the fact he’s been here probably 2 or even 3 seasons longer than he should have but that’s what saints get for having a terrible recruitment strategy.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@RedVeeDotNet Playing well? What’s the standard at this club these days if wright and whitley are ‘playing well’. Matautia must have been the best second rower in the world when he was here if that’s the case because they’re absolutely nowhere near.

[Tom @TomSaint97]

@M_Shaw1 Was it Jake Davies Matt?