Best game I have seen him play, seemed to relish the opportunity to play in the halves once Gaskell went off.....Just hope he can keep himself fit and get a good run in the team.

This season Foster has 7 (Although the Super League site thinks its 6), Wellens and Gardner both on 6 and Meli has 4.

That suggests to me that the ball is going out wide but sweeping moves are perhaps missing out our centres at times.

To be fair, I tend to discount games like at the weekend against a dreadful Wakefield side. Our wingers scored a fair few tries in similar results last season, but we weren't a team that shifted the ball wide much, and we still aren't in my opinion.



Agree with that - but everything we do well is happening up the middle of the park still - we have benefitted hugely from the return of quicker PTB's, which hampered us big time in recent years. Roby is destroying teams with a little more space and time.

Can't wait to see us get something resembling our first choice side out, will be a hell of a line up.

I didn't think Wakey were dreadful, actually. I think Bradford were, but not Wakey. Wakey lacked quality halves and experience, but they worked their butts off. Their goal line defence when the game was well and truly out of their reach was very impressive; they were just fooled in the end. But I get your point. However, even though what you say is probably the best way of viewing things, it still gives an idea of the style we are playing.


At this rate we might just see that at some point next season!

If Wheeler gets a dozen games under his belt he'll be a completely different player. He's been patiently serving his time as a rookie and now only a touch of under-confidence (and rust) is hindering his transformation into a fully developed SL player.

For me the kicking game is going to be the big thing we may miss. Gaskell has had a fabulous kicking game since he joined the team. It's been highly underrated but this guy, gets us out of our own half with every kick being in the opposition 20 or less, no matter where he kicks from. Also he finds the ground more often than most kickers I've seen this year and to be fair more often than any Saints player I've seen. And I include in that Long.

But fair is fair and Gaskell got his chance because of injury and disruption, so the same is true of his own injury, it gives someone else a chance to step up. But we don't need 2 exclusive running half backs, we need one at least to take some control of the kicking game with accuracy and length, which is a hard role to take on.

Would love to see the %'s on kicks going to hand and kicks finding the floor from the half backs in SL as I think Gaskell's would be quite high.