tbh if I had a time machine Wheeler would be plying his trade elsewhere by now given his shocking injury record. Letting Smith and Longy both go with the 2 other halfbacks in the last year of there contracts was a poor move by the chairman as was signing an expensive fullback on a long term deal because he fancied playing 6.

The 2 big mistakes we made were letting Eastmond sign a short-term contract extension and offloading Pryce for Hohaia - the first one is maybe understandable in the circumstances and he'dve likely just sodded off to Warrington on a long deal if we'd pressed the issue which would have been the worst case scenario. In the current marketplace a player with Eastmond's ability is king sadly. But basically swapping Pryce for Hohaia gets loonier and loonier with each passing day. Maybe we simply couldn't compete with the raw £s on offer from Cats, but by the looks of things we never made an attempt to even try to...

You just don't know how to take a compliment do you. I was agreeing with you, you know.

Apparently he's not in the squad for Salford.
I know we all have varying degrees of support for him, but this will leave most of us scratching our heads, i reckon.

I think that's the debate on Gaskell done!

Barring Brown repositioning Gaskell for some other position which will take time.

As a halfback that's pretty much an indication that he will not play half for Saints again.

He could've played him full back this week, even if not standoff.

As you say, that looks like that, but its more than a little baffling to me.

Kinda looks like Gaskell #6 nail in the coffin time then... If he has no place even in the 19 with the players we have out then we won't be seeing him in the halves again barring an outbreak of plague at the training ground I don't think. I think we'll be seeing Hohaia ostensibly staying at #6 but doing a lot more work from dummy half.

I think that's it for Gaskell, I'm sorry to say.

Sounds bad for Gaskell, always thought he was a talented lad but I don't see him every week.
As for Pryce, he had a very good game v Widnes last weekend apparently but the Friday prior to that he went MIA. Bosc did an untold amount of tackling and our Leon was nowhere to be seen.
Catalans went toe to toe with Wigan for 30 mins and they could have done with his contribution.
Don't know if he was like that for Saints but on that showing your not missing much by him not being at Langtree.

Pryce is better than anything we have at standoff at the moment. He was accused of being a flat track bully but I dont think that was fair tbh. He'd walk into our current team as he's miles better than Hiho

I think with Gaskell not being picked again that the lad as signed for someone else and the club know this

How can he? He is contracted to Saints until 2104.

Yeah, he used to go missing for us too. Very frustrating really as when he wants to play he is invaluable.

2013 mate

o.k.
I thought he had signed a three year deal back in 2011.