Good nippy pacey full back/winger. Will score tries for you. Has show odd signs of rawness in defence here but the kid is 19 after all. I think it's a cracking deal for both sides. Potentially a Josh Charnley mark II. This loan spell will probably tell us.



Hopefully we'll have a duck to water situation here and he'll take to it straight away like Charnley did at Hull KR.

Sounds good. Not usually a fan of loan signings if we can help it, but not really left with any choice now. Hope he does good for us, might even like it over here

Is it definitely just a loan deal then? I think this looks more likely that we will be moving Horne to full back next year (where he has looked really good with no kicking/organising responsibilities) and look to bring in a stand off, maybe Finch

Horne would be devastating with his pace from the back, possible replacement for Welllens if Saints want to take another of the FC stars

Russell has rough edges to smooth out and if he does that he can be truely top class.



Great chance for him this.

I hope it is only a loan. It'd be a shame to see him leave.

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Dont think the 2 stories are linked to be honest. All the signs have been that he wants young British players (like Pitts) and this Russell loan signing has kind of been forced upon us rather than by choice.

Never know though, by the sounds of it the club were aware of McKinnon going back for a while. Maybe just delayed the news until we got his replacement?

The Wigan fans seem to rate this lad, so he could be a good stand-in until PG sorts out something permanent for next season.

Might be permanent if he feels he will struggle to get into wigans team, because of Tompkins.

But the consensus is that they may push Tomkins back into the halves next year with Tommy going and potentially Finch, with Russell slotting in at FB