He'd have to play in France first.

Dont worry Longy will be back.

Didn't think he was that old! I agree he's to old.

Greg bird anyone? I know he's a loose or stand off but stand off and scrumhalf don't differ much these days.

It tells me Colquitt may be a card shark

I read it as an alternative way of saying IRONS IN THE FIRE.

However these arent from other clubs, but junior players who are likely to join the first team squad in the years ahead.

One of our great positives is that we as a club have the resources to develop from within. Most other clubs would be forced to look elsewhere.

I personally expect us to promote Gaskell more this season, with him being the starting half next season, alongside Pryce.

Gaskell isn't a scrum half though? He looks as though he could possibly play 1 or 6 but I refuse to believe he's played 7 much. He's already too tall and not the right type of player.

Leon is another 99.99% likely to leave at the end of the season along with Jammer and Kyle. We can't go replacing them with more kids. There has to be established talent brought in somewhere.

I know you like to play up to your persona, but "too tall" for a scrum-half ? When did I miss that memo ? Too slow, too weak, too incapable of passing, too much biscuit in the bones - all perfectly good criticisms. But too tall ? How on earth can a scum-half be too tall ? He doesn't have to run through the scrum tunnel, you know ?

Brett Seymour ?

How many 11 foot beanpoles have you seen play scrum half? All the greats I can remember Murphy, Long, Eastmond, Smith, Goulding, Edwards, Burrow. They are all diminutive types.

What position did Gaskell play for the youth teams? I'll bet it wasn't 7.

Isn't Cooke a tall half, granted he's not a great (could have been if he'd applied himself better).

He made the biggest mistake of his career when he left Hull to go to HKR,bet he regrets it now though.

There are tall halves yes, but who has ever heard of a tall scrum half that was any good?

Perhaps I'm being too old school and expecting there to be a noticable difference between the two. But the way I've always seen it is you have one half back that can organise the line, can feed the ball on to runners effectively and who has both a short and long kicking game. Normally called the scrum half. You have another who operates wider out but who can run. Perfect example being Leon at stand off and Sean Long at scrum half.

By the Saints official website's own admission, Gaskell is a stand off whose main strength is his ability to take on defenders.

his biggest mistake was picking up a pint

Second biggest mistake wad being a pint of wife better