i think he is going to be a good signing for you.

if you have him and lomax in the halves you will have some dangerous running.... which is a problem in itself as Gaskell looked ready for the first team at the back end of last season.

if i was a saints fan i would want to be seeing Gaskell starting next season.

I agree and If i was picking the side I'd start with Gaskell at 6 but I know for a fact that hohaia is starting at 6.

I think you'll end up using Hohaia similar to how Wigan use Tommy L Starting in the half backs but then moving to hooker at some time during the game. That will see Roby moving to loose forward (I believe his best position)

It'l also be interesting too see if Lomax gets moved to fullback at some stage, a position I was told Saints wanted to play him.

Lomax and hohaia are both runners and that could be a problem for us as we could lack direction.

gaskell seems to be a very good player at letting the game flow through him... i was very impressed with him at the back end of the season.... Going to be very hard to leave him out of the starting 13 next season.

Lance will be Scapegoat 2.0. He'll set new standards for scapegoats. He's terrible. Ade Gardner will love him.

Shows how much you know then. He's got the number 7. That means he will be our scrum half.

like Soliola plays centre?

Yeah. Just like that.

Since when have our 1s 6s and 7s ever played anywhere other than their respective positions? Or indeed our 9s?

That would be right. They don't. They play in their respective positions.

Well we'll see. That information came from somebody who knows far more than you or I what is planned for Lomax.

I think lomax will end up at full back once wellens packs in I dont think he is a scrum half dont get me wrong he was great last season but for me he aint got the skills to be a top half back and would be a great full back

I don't agree with this at all. He showed plenty of skill. If you consider he was playing with an even less experinced half back partner in a team with lots of injuries and changes - I thought he'd showed lots of promise.

Lomax was being lined up to play full back, but with the Eastmond drama last season, they looked through the squad at who could be a stop gap 7 for the season and plumped for Jonny. Royce sat down with him to do some video analysis and basically showed him how he wants him to play - Jonny took this on board and delivered 100%. As such he has now made the scrum half position his own and unless another coach comes in and signs someone else, he wont be moving anywhere.

I think he did show great promise at 7 but IMO he's to similar to hohaia. I might work but I have my doubts.

We will find out if the holo combo will work pretty soon.

No one would have predicted the emergence of Gaskell and Lomax as our starting number 6 and 7 this season, and I dont think anyone can predict how the team will evolve next season, other than to say that the team at the end of the season is likely to look different from the one that starts the season, at least around the halfback positions. I also dont think that Saints will have anyone defintiely earmarked now to replace Wellens, it could be Lomax, Makinson, Hohaia, Ashe, Gaskell, or someone who hasnt even been tried there yet. It makes sense to consider their options, but it is too early to be handing over the number 1 jersey to any player just yet.