Northampton Saints

According to this, not ready:-

Sports mole

Refers to last week if you read it

Do we get insurance money etc if a player is out for a significant period ?

Hate to say it, but if we don’t then we have to move on and he should probably retire to save his body for later in life. It isn’t value for money and the other 3 lads are good.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 23/05/2019 07:50 by Wilson Pickett.

I was beginning to get a feeling this might be the case. Shame.

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Wilson Pickett
Do we get insurance money etc if a player is out for a significant period ?
Hate to say it, but if we don’t then we have to move on and he should probably retire to save his body for later in life. It isn’t value for money and the other 3 lads are good.

Insurance pays out for injuries of 12 weeks or more, you also get additional salary cap credit at this point to provide cover

I've felt the same way for a while WP.
I suppose there is also the world cup on his mind, I assume he has one foot on the plane to Japan. If he get injured or banned again in the match against Exeter or Glos in the final (I'm hopeful) then no doubt he'd be out of the squad once again.

The article is only dated today but was posted yesterday. Although it could be about last week it does say about last saturdays game and how Boydy said they decided not to risk him. Thus I take it as meaning this week and so no Dylan

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Did say to the wife that I don’t think we will see him in a Saints shirt again and I’m beginning to think that it may be the case. It’s controversial I know but is he really our best hooker,yes they say he is a good leader but does he have the open play skills impact like Mikey or Reece or fish.

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"I HAVE A BIG ONE".

I mentioned before, depending on contract lengths left, I think we might see one of Mikey or Dylans not renewed.... purely down to salary cap and we have 2 youngsters who have more than proved themselves and be considerably cheaper than both of those mentioned?

Sad, that our club and sport has to be run like a business

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I've felt the same way for a while WP.
I suppose there is also the world cup on his mind, I assume he has one foot on the plane to Japan. If he get injured or banned again in the match against Exeter or Glos in the final (I'm hopeful) then no doubt he'd be out of the squad once again.

If our club captain is missing a semifinal because he doesn’t want to get injured for England, why bother having him?


However I don’t for a minute think he would do that.

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Neil-H
I mentioned before, depending on contract lengths left, I think we might see one of Mikey or Dylans not renewed.... purely down to salary cap and we have 2 youngsters who have more than proved themselves and be considerably cheaper than both of those mentioned?
Sad, that our club and sport has to be run like a business

it’s called professional sport?

If he was fit boyd would pick him and dylan would play.

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Neil-H
I mentioned before, depending on contract lengths left, I think we might see one of Mikey or Dylans not renewed.... purely down to salary cap and we have 2 youngsters who have more than proved themselves and be considerably cheaper than both of those mentioned?
Sad, that our club and sport has to be run like a business

it’s called professional sport?

Spot on WP...

As soon as you pay players the game changes. In old days on shamateurism only a handful of players profited from playing and you could have a relaxed approach to squad size and retain registrations indefinitely.

I know its a professional sport, obviously!

I was just stating my opinion, 1 of them may go, but it is sad that basically its now a business as much if not more than a sport, sentiment has gone out the window and rightly so as you state its professional now.

But players that have given 110% for the club some for years are basically commodities (appreciate they get paid well for it) and think the players we talking about are Saints through and through, my time of following Saints crosses from Amateur to Professional, so think its a bit sad.... and could feel for either of them if they were to be let go, but understand why for reasons posted in my original post

i posted a few weeks ago that this is Dyl's swansong, he is hanging on for a WC slot. we wont see him post WC, he will retire.

Boyds biggest problem is that he doesn't have confidence that he has a huge amount of game time minutes in his legs. it would be a risk selecting him. Probably the safest bet is to start him and play him for 30/40 mins and he knows he has a hooker who can go a full game as back up in case he doesn't last that long. Putting him on bench, hooker goes down early as last week and then he is faced with playing a full game with no back up

If I was running an amateur club where a player had successive concussions, was always away playing for County and then had successive injuries/was barely ever available, I would probably be looking at other solutions.

This is when it would be great if we had a Johnson/ Thacker type hooker... one who is comfortable playing Back Row or at 2, meaning we would have a secondary cover should Dylan start then have to come back on to cover an injury.

Walks, my interpretation is the worry is that the knee won't stand a full game rather than his general fitness.

I am a big fan of Dylan
However I just cannot see how he can expect to be selected for the WC he just doesn’t have the game time Same applies for this weekend
In addition does he really want to risk another bang to the head and be maimed for the rest of his life
There comes a point when common sense and sanity steps in. Time to hang the boots up

I dont suppose he is expecting to be selected. Hoping to be and so am i.

It may be time to offer him a transitional role into the coaching set up.
That way we could still have him to call upon but perhaps on a pay per game basis.

As much as I would like to see him back to full fitness and a full season, financially its not becoming efficient.

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Saint Stokey
This is when it would be great if we had a Johnson/ Thacker type hooker... one who is comfortable playing Back Row or at 2, meaning we would have a secondary cover should Dylan start then have to come back on to cover an injury.

Daft Dave Ward is out of contract at Quins..........

you’ve probably got more chance of seeing me in the saints squad than Dave Ward!

He really isn’t popular with some of our guys

I wonder what Matti Williams is up to

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Walks, my interpretation is the worry is that the knee won't stand a full game rather than his general fitness.

agree and probably both come into play. either isn't good, both together big risk

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I wonder what Matti Williams is up to

With Mike H, Reece, James and Samson coming through I'm not sure we'd need a 5th hooker - particularly ahead of Samson. We've managed since Christmas with three plus DD, and next year Mike is back.

Why would we want Dave Ward back when he was at best a club player first time around. Why would Matti Williams want to come back when he left us I believe through lack of game time and I’m sure he has resigned at Woos anyway.

If we want to speculate on a new hooker we should set our sights much higher. Malcolm Marx anyone?

Something I've wondered.... Let's say Dylan starts on Saturday, gets injured, and has to come off.

Replacement hooker then gets injured and has to go off.

We'd go to uncontested scrums (not a bad thing based on out previous meetings with Chiefs?), but would we be able to bring on a replacement for the replacement hooker?

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Matthew
Something I've wondered.... Let's say Dylan starts on Saturday, gets injured, and has to come off.
Replacement hooker then gets injured and has to go off.

We'd go to uncontested scrums (not a bad thing based on out previous meetings with Chiefs?), but would we be able to bring on a replacement for the replacement hooker?

Interesting. One assumes (so one is likely wrong) that such a replacement would not need experience as a hooker or even front row as scrums go uncontested. Opens a few opportunities up - could have an extra back on the field. Lineout might go wonky, mind you.

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Matthew
Something I've wondered.... Let's say Dylan starts on Saturday, gets injured, and has to come off.
Replacement hooker then gets injured and has to go off.

We'd go to uncontested scrums (not a bad thing based on out previous meetings with Chiefs?), but would we be able to bring on a replacement for the replacement hooker?

I think you are, yes. Don't uncontested scrums have to be agreed to by the other team in this scenario?

Either way, wouldn't like to win this way - feels beneath us.

fine by me :-)

If we go to uncontested scrums we also go to 14 men

But at least we wouldn't be shipping scrum penalties :-)

As much as I would be delighted to see a fully fit Dylan leading the cause, I am concerned about his history of concussion.

Aside from that irrespective of his fitness, countless times I have heard players / pundits commenting there isn't any training like an actual match. Dyls has been out for so long I am not sure that he will be up to speed.

Time for him to go.

He's past his sell by date!

So disrespectful taffman.

he would be lauding him as irreplaceable if he was welsh.....

very very dull