Re: Ambition : Wed May 24, 2017 10:23 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Sworn to social media secrecy I'm afraid.

Well if thats the case why do you post anything in the first place if you are as you say sworn to secrecy

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 1:09 am  

To tell you what I can tell you and let you speculate, some posters guessimates have been quite interesting.
It's all good fun too.....

Or should we just talk the same stuff about Brown, Russell and Evans every day?

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 6:48 am  

I can't believe we could ever have been seriously in for Barba if we were unable to offer him a marquee spot.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 7:22 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

To tell you what I can tell you and let you speculate, some posters guessimates have been quite interesting.
It's all good fun too.....

Or should we just talk the same stuff about Brown, Russell and Evans every day?

I agree to a point speculation can be interesting but I'm sorry RD all the "done deal" stuff doesn't help your case if of course you are bothered/interested?

I don't know about "social media secrecy" if this one doesn't come off it'll be 'social media idiocy'.

BTW I think that on the whole we are ambitious they may not have all come off and perhaps we should be higher up the table v money spent but that kind of proves the point, ambition doesn't always equate to results

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 9:03 am  

For me, one thing that can't be levelled at the club is lack of ambition. We've recently acquired some of the best players from other SL clubs including mos Clarke. Barba is the first noteworthy signing saints have made for quite a while and I can't see where any club has been more proactive in the transfer market than ourselves. Some of those transfers, so far, haven't lived up to expectations, but it sounds like the board are going out again to find us some top players to give us, once again, the best chance possible.

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 10:09 am  

Barba was the most talented player available players of his age and quality are not available we have missed out big time we will replace gidley and Sims for two more past there best Aussie's​ is it only me that thinks we are dull ?

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 11:25 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

I can't believe we could ever have been seriously in for Barba if we were unable to offer him a marquee spot.

Players are more likely to earn a more money at Wire without a marquee spot than at Saints within one.

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 11:54 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

I can't believe we could ever have been seriously in for Barba if we were unable to offer him a marquee spot.

With the new salary cap rule on returning players from RU I reckon we could.

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 12:03 pm  

A quality half back is going to be very hard to find. No home grown ones and quality aussies already tied up on long term contracts

Re: Ambition : Thu May 25, 2017 12:19 pm  

Theres no doubt we are an ambitious club, the doubt is with some of the bog standard players Smith keeps signing. Clark and Westerman are brilliant signings, Lineham is proving his worth again now and home grown players like Currie (only a month a way from playing) and Harvey Livett, morgan smith etc are exciting prospects. But we need some quality signings at the club while these players develop which we just aren't signing. I'm just hoping we sign a couple of real quality signings for the new season and not pick up some more players that are risky and we're taking a chance on. I would rather sign consistant players that aren't world beaters then a couple of chance players in the hope they are awesome.