Pryce came to Saints because he was told he would be playing stand-off, now, for what ever reason his form has gone so should his right to choose where he plays. I would play him at centre next year with Wheeler at stand-off, I would also give Tom Armstrong a few games in place of Adie, another who has to be told he is not guaranteed a shirt because of a past reputation.

I've said for few month now that pryce should have been plaing centre with longy and eastmond halfbacks.

Potter has a huge problem next year with the halfback selection. IMO eastmond should be our 7 next year but I don't think he and pryce would work.

I don't think eastmond and wheeler our ready to play together as our halfbacks as it's a big ask for 2 young lads to direct the team.

It's a shame we didn't have the cash to bring a ball playing stand off in to help eastmond out.

IMO pryce would be ideal as our fullback but think wello will have something to say bout that.

Its no good blaming Pyrce, most of the team has been rubbish this season, with possibly Wellens and Graham being the exceptions.

We just have not adjusted to the slow play the balls, Leeds, Huddersfield and Hull KR have adapted well.
We can only manage 2 passes from the ruck area, and as we don,t have a decent kicking game it means our attacking flair has dissapeared, even Gidley has struggled this year. So Pyrce and his loss of form you could say for half the team this season.
If you look at the Grand Final Leeds were getting the ball out wide quicker from 3 passes. We were doing 1 or 2 passes and getting swallowed up every time.
The only positive our defence has been pretty decent for most of the time in the tackling department but defending from kicks we are on dodgy ground.

The key here though is:

Beaten Pack = ineffective half backs.

Fair enough, we were on top against Leeds for the opening 30, but even then with our forwards dominating theirs, the slow PTB and lack of dynamic passing left Longy and Pryce pretty much swamped by the opposition defence.

Even though pryce hasn't played to the level we used to he's still been ok this year.

His defence and work rate IMO has improved but his attack has been poor.

He ain't got the room to play his attacking game. That's down to lack of roll on, slow play the balls or whatever.

I think pryce would be a better playing centre or fullback.

Fancy emailing that to your chairman? He'd walk into our team even in his present form!

2009 = write off ! Non entity for us all season to be fair. Wouldnt get agame for the Lebanon .

Wello wanted to move to 13 for this season but there was nobody to replace him at FB so I suspect the something Wello would have to say would be "Yes please"

If you move Wello to 13 where are Cunningham, Roby and Moore going to play?

Except Pryce's main assett is his broken field play and his running game, which was not Scully's main assett. Also, Sculthorpe could pass a football, kick a football and organise his team mates, all skills that are completely alien to Pryce.

In other words, the two are about as similar as Ellery Hanley and Barry Ward.

Leon Pryce is a broken field player and just hasn't got any of the organisational skills or tactical brains required to play a pivotal role such as 6 or 13 unless he has a 7 at the side of him that can do all those things for him.

Paul Sculthorpe in his prime would make the current Saints side champions.

But Ellery was not a good passer or kicker. It took Graham Lowe to figure it out.

Bring in Andy Gregory to 7, Edwards at 6 and Hanley to 13. The best midfield triangle ever to play for an English club side.

Add a hooker in Dermott who could pass accurately and quickly, job done.