NEVER-SAY-DIE Saints finally got their man on Tuesday when South Sydney scrum-half Darrall 'Tricky' Trindall signed a two-year contract.

The deal for the 27-year-old, who was wanted by Wigan, was finalised in Australia by Ellery Hanley, and Saints are hoping a work permit arrives in time for Trindall to make his debut at Wigan on Boxing Day.

Darrall scored 44 tries in 150 games for Souths after making his debut in 1990.

Halifax Blue Sox have invited Saints to play a 'friendly' at The Shay on Sunday, January 9.

Alliance centre Alan Cross - who scored 21 tries last season - has joined Leigh Centurions on a one-year contract. A former Rainford High School pupil, 21-year-old Alan toured Australia with BARLA in 1994. His father Ken was a member of the star-studded Pilkington Recs side of 1970s, while grandfather Arthur Cross played for Saints before the Second World War.

Four ex-Saints' players were presented with belated 1960 World Cup winner's medals when the British Lions' Association held their annual dinner at Pembroke Lodge, Walkden, on Sunday. None were awarded at the time and current Rugby League sponsors Lincoln Finance had the medals specially struck. The Saints' quartet were Austin Rhodes, Alex Murphy, Vince Karalius and Frank Myler, who was a Widnes player at the time. Local product and Wigan star Eric Ashton, who captained the side, also received his 'gong,' plus another for indisposed Eric Fraser.

Blackbrook-born Warrington half-back Bobbie Greenough, who now lives in the Orkney Isles, was another giant of the past to pick up a medal, while present-day Saints' winger Anthony Sullivan accepted one on behalf of his late father Clive, who skippered the victorious Great Britain World Cup squad of 1972.

'Sully,' incidentally, has undergone surgery on a chest injury, while hooker Keiron Cunningham entered Fairfield hospital on Tuesday for an operation on a troublesome elbow.

Saints are hoping to hold an extra-ordinary meeting of shareholders before Christmas to discuss the proposed new ground.

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