Quote jools="jools"Except it could be argued Gaskell isn't really a championship player- in the same way as brierley, unlike him He spent his junior years learning At a SL club in a full time environment from some top class players. Saints would not sell him when we tried all that time ago- so thought he had something. He then played at two other SL clubs- and it could be argued he ended up at a championship club through showing loyalty rather than his ability. For me Gaskell has shown himself to be a better 'rugby' player than brierley did.'"
Your points about Gaskell are fair enough jools, my references to him were more in the way of his injury record, But i agree with you he has a more complete game than Brierley.
But to be fair we have lots of players who are very one dimensional so why single out Brierley without making any attempt to utilize his skills or at least play to them. Has Hinchcliffe ever made a run from dummy, They must be rare, Has Lawrence ever broken the line and offloaded, equally rare but we still persevere with him, and we have others who's games are very suspect in parts, They however are not expected to transform us into a winning side in a handful of matches. Brierley was at least capable of winning us a game , and did,
His tackling has been cited as being very poor" fair enough " but bearing in mind the number of games he has played, and our points against this season , it would appear the problem will not be solved with him going, so why are we not giving the same amount of credit to our stalwarts, who are doing so much better than Brierley.
But Hey ho he is gone now, so it onward and up with the Giants.
