I doubt there is any milage in this. Not doubting Fishers qualities but as Pete says he is a player in the shape of Monaghan, that being the case I don't see the point. Someone like that needs to start not be brought on for impact.



Hence why Lance or Lomax or Flanaghan, as they could offer a burst of running to give roby a rest. I agree Roby's impact dwindled towards the end of the year, a bit like Graham, but that happens when players do 80 minutes a week until they bust. Nothing wrong with the odd 80 minute spell but week in week out would leave even the best physically and mentally exhausted. I think Saints fan said during the season that Roby had extra time after each match to return to training to allow him to do those 80 minutes.



Nothing wrong with doing 30 mins, then letting Lance run em ragged for 10 minutes either side of half time, then inject roby back in for the final 30.





(besides didn't the club say no one else was coming in? and if we did get anyone surely it would be the phantom prop.)

I don't think lance and lomax are great replacements as they are both runners. Flanaghan isn't a hooker but will do a job.



I think Royce is thinking the same way I am. We rely to much on roby and some games just don't suit robes running play and the likes of fisher offers something different from dummy half. It also gives robes a rest.



IMO it would be a good signing. The more I think about it the more I like the idea.

If he's thinking like you, does that mean the back on the bench has gone?

He ain't good enough.

Ben Fisher? FFS we'd be better off with Climie Fisher!

They'd at least rise to the occasion.

Quoting yourself. It's Not Supposed To Be That Way

Shush, you are just keeping the mystery alive

I think you know opinion on that, I'm not going down that route until the season starts.

I think you've warmed too much to the idea of it rather than the practicalities of Fisher being the player you imagine him to be

I just think he'd do a good job for us, add depth and means we can leave lomax, hohaia and flanaghan in their proper positions.



Fisher is a clever cunning player which IMO we needed in the games where teams nulified robes running game.



On the subject of roby, I don't think we can flog him like we did last year, the back end of the season he looked tired and didn't offer any impact like he had in the first half of the season.

Correctamundo Peter. Roby is the long term future of saints and we need to ensure that we don't completely thrash him week in week out. I would prefer him to be doing no more than 50 mins per week

Precisely why the ludicrous argument that we can afford to play games with 16 men as we can just thrash Roby all year winds me up so much.



This is even more important now interchanges are down. Hopefully we've seen the end of the unused substitute at Saints under Royce.

Totally agree!



As most know on here, it drives me feckin mad the while back on the bench that royce opts for!



You'd see jammer and robes out on their feet while a back is sat on the bench scraching his balls!



Modern day players can play in more than one postion. Teams train them to play other positions yet royce stuck to flogging certain players while some didn't even do a minute!