Faye Gaskin pulls the strings for St Helens. In a season that end on Sunday with Saints, on home turf, facing York Valkyrie in the Women’s Super League Grand Final, she has been the magic in the middle, her playmaking skills at scrum-half earning a nomination as Woman of Steel in Tuesday’s Rugby League Awards.
It is an amazing achievement, especially given the messy fractured kneecap she was told had ended her career three years ago and still causes “pain which shoots up my knee every time I kick the ball”. But Sunday will be Gaskin’s first Grand Final and her last game. At 32, her priority is a family of her own.
