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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 5:33 pm  
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I cannot wait for this season to end to be honest now. Just want to see Brown re-envigorate the squad now.

Can we have some good summer first though? Summer hasn't even started yet and we're almost at halfway. I don't want the season to end yet because that will mean it is the autumn!
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 5:56 pm  
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Gaskell is much better than you make out. He can break the line, open teams up, kicking game and has good rugby brain.

My only complaint with Gaskell he sometimes takes the wrong option and blows chances. The grand final was a perfect example of this but that will come with experince.

He should be give a extended run in the first team at stand off.

I agree he can make breaks, but once through a quality stand-off would convert a high proportion of those breaks. Gaskell blows far too many chance by taking the wrong option or ignoring support runners and going himself. For any half back of any age that is a major and fundamental flaw in their game and would be extremely difficult to coach once a player reaches the first team. This skill is instinctive and his instinct is to go it alone, probably because all through the junior ranks he was good enough to get away with it.
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 6:06 pm  
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I agree he can make breaks, but once through a quality stand-off would convert a high proportion of those breaks. Gaskell blows far too many chance by taking the wrong option or ignoring support runners and going himself. For any half back of any age that is a major and fundamental flaw in their game and would be extremely difficult to coach once a player reaches the first team. This skill is instinctive and his instinct is to go it alone, probably because all through the junior ranks he was good enough to get away with it.



That is more than our stand off of the moment is doing :wink:

I think his decision making will come with experince.
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 6:07 pm  
Where's jamie foster these days? injured?
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 6:11 pm  
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Where's jamie foster these days? injured?

Not injured. Dropped to the u20s.
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 6:46 pm  
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I agree he can make breaks, but once through a quality stand-off would convert a high proportion of those breaks. Gaskell blows far too many chance by taking the wrong option or ignoring support runners and going himself. For any half back of any age that is a major and fundamental flaw in their game and would be extremely difficult to coach once a player reaches the first team. This skill is instinctive and his instinct is to go it alone, probably because all through the junior ranks he was good enough to get away with it.


It's because of opinions like yours that we have to endure boring rugby. Gaskell is a player who plays to make something happen, if he didn't try different options and stuck to constantly doing and initiating the same choices then maybe he'd fit in better at Saints at present because ALL the players are so predictable. Just like we saw against Wigan last week when they shut Roby down and anticipated what Saints would do before they even did it themselves. Making errors and wrong decisions is the best way we learn and I see Gaskell has made more positive play than negative. He should be playing in the first team, there's no doubt about that, but Rush has made it obvious that there's some personal stuff going on and has frozen him out. Now, when you mention that he 'ignores support runners and goes in himself', it makes me realise you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 9:29 pm  
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It's because of opinions like yours that we have to endure boring rugby. Gaskell is a player who plays to make something happen, if he didn't try different options and stuck to constantly doing and initiating the same choices then maybe he'd fit in better at Saints at present because ALL the players are so predictable. Just like we saw against Wigan last week when they shut Roby down and anticipated what Saints would do before they even did it themselves. Making errors and wrong decisions is the best way we learn and I see Gaskell has made more positive play than negative. He should be playing in the first team, there's no doubt about that, but Rush has made it obvious that there's some personal stuff going on and has frozen him out. Now, when you mention that he 'ignores support runners and goes in himself', it makes me realise you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

My opinion has nothing to do with boring rugby. I have watched Saints play some of the most entertaining rugby ever played. I have also endured them playing some pretty dire stuff over the years. If you have watched the games he has played over the last 12 to 18 months you would actually see that I do know what I am talking about. I actually have my own, self developed, opinion which can be backed up with facts. You seem to spout the same arguments which all Ill informed use I.E. praise the good, Ignore the bad. Until you find some evidence to back up your claims, could I trouble you not to comment on my posts. I wish to have sensible debate, which is clearly beyond you!
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Sun May 20, 2012 10:18 pm  
Top Saint has done the right thing and opened the Gaskell debate elsewhere so lets get this back to the game.

How do we think our 17 will shape up against Leeds. I'm quite confident, but TP could be the difference, if he is ready he could be a handful for Leeds, if he is half fit then it maybe a risk I would not take for this game.
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Re: 19 Man Squad announced for Leeds. : Mon May 21, 2012 11:54 am  
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I'm quite confident, but TP could be the difference, if he is ready he could be a handful for Leeds,

Yeah. I rather think, though, that Burrow will be quite a handful for TP. Wasn't it TP's legs Burrow ran through in the GF to score his try that everyone kept going on about?

I'm not confident myself. Not only will Burrow be back to cause us problems but they now know how we play. Last time out they were expecting a team that was struggling and we blasted them from the start. We won't have that element of surprise this time and after our showing against Wigan they will be aiming to close down Robes, since that is all it appears to take to render us impotent in the attacking stakes.
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