Wytchfynder General wrote:
Well based on this season yes. He was saints top try scorer with 21 tries, which is 7 more than our highest try scorer (Tom Briscoe), he has his weakness's but i'd be more than happy with a winger who could get me 21 tries a season, in fact many seem happy with Briscoe's 14 so Meli has quite a way to drop yet. He is still able to make 40 tackle busts in a season as well as 12 clean breaks and 15 offloads, although he did miss 7 games, although I may be wrong, I think some of these were due to his late arrival as a resuly of visa complications (or was that the season before?).
You speak higher of Meli then most Saints fans do so fair play to you!
I think the 30 plus policy is a bit of a con really Saints seem to release players when they have a replacement ready to come through or bring in.
Long and Gilmore were replaced by Eastmond and Soliola last year whilst Hargreaves has been released on the back of Perry and LMS coming in.
I suspect Saints dont have full confidence in their younger outside back players coming through just yet to be able to afford to release Meli.
Cant help thinking had it been Hull signing Meli on a 2 year deal there would have been uproar!
