: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:03 pm  

Scott_HKR wrote:

Lol
Is his contract up at the end of the year then?

Yes it up at end of year. I hear he wants 2 years but we only want to give him 1 year.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:08 pm  

St pete wrote:

I hear he wants 2 years but we only want to give him 1 year.

Y'know, Saints should make that their tagline, we're using it so often at present.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:10 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Y'know, Saints should make that their tagline, we're using it so often at present.

I know we are. I'd be happy to give gilmour 2 years.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:32 pm  

St pete wrote:

I know we are. I'd be happy to give gilmour 2 years.

Like with longy, its very difficult. Out of the two gilmour, IMO, is worth a two year deal more.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:44 pm  

An excellent sr. Great leg drive. Hope Nathan Brown has a look at him.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:37 pm  

Dont wory Marsden he has already signed.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:19 am  

BOYD2 wrote:

Dont wory Marsden he has already signed.

Who?

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:43 am  

Surley there are better in the NRL we can sign on a higher wage?

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:50 am  

I'd prefer to keep him, but not on break-the-bank terms. If we let him go and let kids like Ashurst pick up the slack we'll clearly have to take a short term loss on the chin for long term gain.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:28 am  

St pete wrote:

We are going to be so lightweight next year in our pack! We will also have no depth at all.

We struggle at Salford with 4 missing we can't afford to lose anymore players.

I think we're fine in the back row; it's at prop where we're light.

Without Gilmour we still have four experienced back rowers (Wilkin, Flannery, Clough, Puletua) and two youngsters in Dixon and Ashurst who are highly rated and have seen first team action.

Compare that with our situation at prop, where next season we will only have Graham and Fa'asavalu who are IMO of the required quality to be regularly in the 17.

If letting Gilmour go means we can afford to bring in a quality prop then I'd be all for it.

And to answer the op's question - it would be a top signing for HKR, provided you used him in the pack.