Well if hes no better than Howarth we should get rid now.
Thankfully I think the kids a lot better and would do a better job than both.
Incidently Brown said that Gaskell was exactly the type of player we needed at standoff but changed his mind after three games.
So maybe he needs to have a rethink if hes ruled out Swift

Lomax will flounder at 6 alongside Wilkin as we'll be just as predictable as we were with him and Hohaia at 6 & 7. Put him back at 1 when he's fit. If we actually had a decent 6 or 7 in the team I may have had a different opinion but we don't.

I reckon that Swift won't go anywhere near the halves fro the same reason as above, others failings may well knock his career back years .

Agree.

We're not a team littered with stars but Lomax at full back is one.

Simpler solution would have been to give Gaskell more than 3 games before binning him off.

Gaskell or no Gaskell I'd still have Longy back. Something more than is in the public eye has gone on with Gaskell , it must have.

Agreed, whilst TM is OK at FB JL is a lot better.
Will it be worth swopping them just to see what JL can bring to the halves and thus losing what he bringd to FB?