To be fair even when both Gaskell and Wilkin were in the team for the 1st three games, Gaskell didn't really put in many kicks in general play. He took a backseat for some reason and it was pretty much Wilkin doing it anyway. Gaskell was disappointing, he seemed to be playing within himself.

No Gaskell? I am surprised, does that mean another 20+ rounds of shuffling the ball.

Doesn't it seem, though, that Wilkin has been given that job, even when he's not officially playing in the halves? I might be wrong but that's how it looks to me.

If we're not signing anyone then I'd like to see Gaskell get a run at 6 and be given more responsibility - give him the job of moving the team around and engineering the last tackle and see how it goes. He'll make a few mistakes, but at least he'll be a half-back doing a half-back's job.

For me team would be:

Lomax
Gardner
Turner
Percival
Meli
Hohaia
Wilkin
Laffranchi
Roby
LMS
Soliola
Manu
Flanagan

TP
Clough
Jones
Walmsley

It appeared as though brown was easing Gaskell into the team without giving him the added responsibilities of kicking and moving the team round rhe field. I'm sure that had he shone in his appearances, he would soon have been given the extra responsibility. Unfortunately he didn't perform even in his limited role, so has been banished, again.

Of course you are assuming that is how Gaskell wanted to play, rather than him doing as directed by the coach.

Brown clearly doesn't have much of a clue about his players. On his post match interview after the Leeds game he reckoned that neither Wheeler nor Wilkin had played in the halves before.

This team just looks like a Mike Rush/Keiron Cunningham team. I'm starting to think they're still calling the shots.

Why are you posting lies?

I saw the interview and he NEVER said that.

See his comments after the Bradford game (I remember Mick Potter putting him in that position in a big Cup game at Leeds not so long ago"

I watched it on fulltime and he said, after the point had been made about Wheeler's injury, that the halves hadn't played there before.

I wasn't posting lies. I was referring to what I heard.

I can only assume that I didn't hear the full interview on fulltime. I didn't watch the match back on Sky so I didn't see the red button show.

I don't post lies. End of story.

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You just did. At no point did Brown say they had never played there. I've just watched it again. You really need to start thinking before you post. I'm shocked you're still allowed on here frankly.

He said the halves hadn't played together before I think?

But he definitely didn't say that they'd never played there before.

No I didn't. You're going to my motive and you know sod all about my motives.

I might have misheard but I didn't lie.

Ah well, that is maybe what I misheard. Fair enough if that's what he said. I didn't hear that but I'm perfectly willing to accept I misheard.

Amazing what progress a person can make when they don't start stupid accusative crap without any clue.

Your motive, it would seem, is to take as much nonsense as possible. Some of the stuff you put on the official Saints facebook page is laughable.

Oh go away, you silly child.