I think that comment was referring to today's game.

Then we'll just do nothing shall we. Everyone keeps coming up with Gaskell or does he not have enough faith in Danny Nickolas.

Isn't Nicklas on season long loan at York? Can we even recall him?

The addition of Magoldrick to this squad wouldn't have been a bad idea !

There's probably a very good reason Gaskell is tossing it off at Rochdale and Danny Nicklas didn't exactly cover himself in glory re: his Widnes tweets

If either of those are the answer then we're asking the wrong question.

If that is the case then surely getting the 1st half out of him is an option.......

Are you serious? theres grasping straws and then some.

Saved me a post. I'd send him back to Aus for a month to rest, assuming it's a case of waiting for the swelling/symptoms to subside. Continuing to attempt to get him out there if he's not right would be any number of things from selfish to stupid to dangerous.

Can't really understand why he was named in the squad,surely they must have known this before thurs?

Mind games?

Didn't work, whatever the reason.

I'd imagine Holdsworth's case is becoming a real worry for both the medical team and the player himself. I've never heard of a 2 month concussion.

LIstening to Sandercocks post match interviews

This ... there is a world shortage of halves and Nicklas is playing for York. Says it all for me.

But we need to play someone.........I agree with you FWIW

And the only thing he's ever done of any note is making an ill judged tweet.

The lad Powell at Wigan might be available on loan as stop gap.

If we go with what we've got then I reckon either Westerman or Whiting are our best bets.

From outside? Honestly no idea. Halves are so thin on the ground that there are no decent ones going 'spare'. Which is probably why Gentle keeps ruling it out.

Totally agree. From the commentary is sounded like our late rally coincided with Heremaia being subbed by Westerman. Probably he's the best option ATM.

Something doesn't seem right to me. The Meli incident happened very early in the Saints game didn't it? But Holdsworth then converted off the touchline & played the full 80. Does that sound like a severely concussed player? I know concussion can kick in some time later but your medical staff would have got him off the field if they had concerns, or have they dropped the ball & missed something? Or is there something else going on here?

Several NHL ice hockey players have missed months with concussion,some days they wake up feeling fine,next day they don't,hope he recovers soon.

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Could be a long road back.

id take gaskell on a loan cant be worse then we have got already and he was a star in the making at saints last year and its all gone quiet just like foster and he was a breath of fresh air for us. nicklas is absolute turd!!!

I did say on Twitter there was a suggestion London games wasn't about illness.

whiting was signed as a half back years ago
he played there a couple of times last years with a bit of success (Leeds when we won)
what we have is not working so lets try Horne and Whiting there for a few games and see
ok we'd have 2 of the slowest backs in the league but they can both create for others