Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:14 am  

St pete wrote:

IMO Royce SHOULD continue to pick ea$tmond for the time being. He's had to make a very very tough choice for a kid and looks like he's had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

As others have said though, he is a professional rugby league player. I now expect him to play to the top of his performance in every match because he has had a lot of investment from the club I pay my money to and I'd like to see a return on that investment. No 'touch choice for a kid' stuff for me. He isn't a kid. He is 21 years old. That makes him an adult. He is also a paid professional. So far as I'm concerned anyway if he doesn't play to the top of his game from now on in he should be dropped and one of our more enthusiastic professionals should have the opportunity to develop their game. I don't see why they should be held back just to facilitate Kyle Eastmond.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:34 am  

I think the game in France at the weekend will be a good time for Kyle to try and get his RL head on as it will be away from most of the limelight. We will not have as many fans there like we have at a home or away game over here. Hopefully it will help him and us to all settle down again if we have got him until the end of the year.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:42 am  

The announcement on the Club website screams 'boy are we pi$$ed off with him'.

Chapter closed in my opinion. He's made his decision, let's start making ours and we'll rebuild and be bigger and better without him. We've lost far far more significant players than him in recent seasons and survived.

The King is Dead. Long live the King.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:44 am  

Allez wrote:

We've lost far far more significant players than him in recent seasons and survived.

We could 'survive' with no players given there is no relegation. But he is unquestionably the best youth player we've produced and we've not even got him established in the first team before he's left.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:52 am  

Saddened! wrote:

We could 'survive' with no players given there is no relegation. But he is unquestionably the best youth player we've produced and we've not even got him established in the first team before he's left.

He isn't, both Roby and Cunningham are far better and there is certainly an argument that Graham is a better prop than Eastmond is a 7.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:00 am  

Now that the weight's off his mind, Kyle's performances may buck up. Alternatively, his heart may not be in it and he may give the same half-ass performance that we've see in our recent big games. If its the latter, we should look at at least pushing him out to the centre when Pryce is back, giving Gaskell and Lomax more chances in the halves.

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:25 am  

Its disappointing,but at least the saga is at an end

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:30 am  

One more bad game from him and the crowd will want him out? And the boo's will start from me

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:40 am  

Tony Stark wrote: Right, please keep all talk about Kyle and his impending move to Bath RU to this one thread. I appreciate the topic needs discussing and that there are various sub-plots involved but I've deleted 3 unnecessary new threads and merged 4 more into the original Super Kyle Eastmond thread in the past 7 days. [b]Once the news becomes officially official, i.e. an article appears on the Saints website, I will allow a new thread but if any more pop up in the meantime they will be deleted and perhaps lead to the OP getting some time off. TS[/b] Like this one.... http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/590

Tony Stark wrote: Right, please keep all talk about Kyle and his impending move to Bath RU to this one thread. I appreciate the topic needs discussing and that there are various sub-plots involved but I've deleted 3 unnecessary new threads and merged 4 more into the original Super Kyle Eastmond thread in the past 7 days. [b]Once the news becomes officially official, i.e. an article appears on the Saints website, I will allow a new thread but if any more pop up in the meantime they will be deleted and perhaps lead to the OP getting some time off. TS[/b] Like this one.... http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/590

Re: All Kyle Eastmond Chatter : Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:00 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

He isn't, both Roby and Cunningham are far better and there is certainly an argument that Graham is a better prop than Eastmond is a 7.

Spot on. I've been told that Saints' offer was very similar to Bath's. Unfortunately for us the profile he will have is much higher.

And besides, he's already seen a Wigan fringe player become the saviour of England RU.