Ah right. Me and a few around me were trying to figure out who left the pitch when Gaskell came on and I don't remember seeing Jones. But I wasn't sure. Clough put in a good stint IMO. He was one of the few forwards who consistently ran forward (as opposed to sideways!).

However, I still don't think Perry being available to play would have made any difference to Gaskell. Not that Perry wasn't available to play. We don't get injury updates these days and so I have no idea whether Perry was fit or not.

Yes, I was aware of that, which kind of backs up my position that Gaskell wasn't a direct replacement for Perry. I don't think Perry's fitness or otherwise bore any impact upon whether Gaskell played. I think Gaskell played because we needed the creativity in attack which frankly Hohaia isn't giving us and yet Rush will not concede that point beyond playing Gasky for 10 minutes at the end of the occasional match.


Really? I wouldn't have guessed!

That would be tactical then.

(Perry will be moaning to the press again if he doesn't get picked!)

That would be a good move. He is the stereotypical journeyman Aussie in my view and he is blocking the development of one of our young forwards.

I think the injuries he suffered in his last year in the NRL and the injuries he picked up in his first year here finished him. He basically missed a season and half with injuries. He's getting on a bit and is a big guy which hasn't helped.

Very good signing at the time but it's just not worked out. Just one of them things.

Oh it's like talking to a wall.

The problem is that he might be a bit of a dumpling, but he would still need replacing. The chances of getting a top Aussie are receding, and there are none available here.

To be honest, ive not looked whats available but I doubt it would be hard to replace perry as he's basically a waste of a player.

Another British prop slipped through the fingers already , Watts went to Hull F for free didnt he?

Give over. Whilst he had a slow start with a disrupted season last year, since Royce went he's been very good in pretty much all games bar Wigan (for which he's not the only one) and he's been given plenty of compliments by a variety of posters.

No he replaced whoever was at loose, possibly flash

I think someone said earlier, Gaskell came one, Hohaia to Hooker and Robes to backrow.