Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:25 pm  

Dureau is the one for me.

Class in a glass.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:27 pm  

jonh wrote:

If Deacon does retire then I think we will be asking Mellor to step forward. Ideally I would like Deacon to sign a player coach contract, but take a back seat with the playing side and only use him if Mellor goes through a major bad spell. At his age Mellor needs to get and take his chance or look to be moving on.

If Deacon does retire altogether as i expect he will for me we need to be looking at a young hooker to compete with McIllorum if Mellor takes his chance or to allow Tommy to cover both positions as cover for Mellor in the halves.

Deacon should not retire this season he is still a very good SL player. If for any reason we dont know about eg injuries etc then maybe he should but he should not let his age dictate when he retires. If he struggle to cope with SL fair enough but i think he is still a good player.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:31 pm  

If we could have Chase or Dureau in place of Deacon, i'd file the retirement papers for Deacs myself.

We'd be on another level with one of the first two.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:40 pm  

Chase would be an awesome signing though I heard there could be a snag regarding any work permit due to his recent conviction, i.e. he would have to apply for another work permit if he moved to another SL club and it may not be granted.

This is the first potential signing I have been vaguely excited about for next season though, still cant believe we have been linked with Luauki or Thomas and I'm also shocked we've let O'Carroll go. I know we cant sign players like Lima, Finch and Hoffman every year but there is a certain standard incoming players should reach and I've seen nothing of these to suggest that's the case!

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:52 pm  

WARRIORCRAIG wrote:

Chase would be an awesome signing though I heard there could be a snag regarding any work permit due to his recent conviction, i.e. he would have to apply for another work permit if he moved to another SL club and it may not be granted.

This is the first potential signing I have been vaguely excited about for next season though, still cant believe we have been linked with Luauki or Thomas and I'm also shocked we've let O'Carroll go. I know we cant sign players like Lima, Finch and Hoffman every year but there is a certain standard incoming players should reach and I've seen nothing of these to suggest that's the case!

Unlike O'Carroll who has been ripping it up for the last few years, and is an integral part of our championship team. The same O'Carroll that we have supported throughout his injury and turned down a deal with us.

Another case of the Wigan above criticism product syndrome.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:01 pm  

jonh wrote:

Unlike O'Carroll who has been ripping it up for the last few years, and is an integral part of our championship team. The same O'Carroll that we have supported throughout his injury and turned down a deal with us.

Another case of the Wigan above criticism product syndrome.

Not at all, I never take that opinion. I do find it strange that the club searched high and low to find a specialist to finally fix his unusual and problematic injury just to let him go. Although I have seen elsewhere that he was offerred a contract by Wigan but chose the one Hull offered him so cant complain. I think Thomas is too old and has been nothing other than solid in an often very poor team since hes move from rah rah, leaving Joel in the centre is a better option imo. Not seen much of Dudson and I've not seen anything from Flower to think he is better than we aready have and I wouldnt have Lauaki anywhere near a Wigan shirt!

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:29 pm  

The Chase rumour was round wembley and today a saints fan as been saying the same on twitter.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:28 am  

In order to sign chase we would need to negotiate his release / buy out from the 2 years remaining on his contract. Cant see cas letting their star player leave.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:11 am  

Tricky Dicky wrote:

In order to sign chase we would need to negotiate his release / buy out from the 2 years remaining on his contract. Cant see cas letting their star player leave.

Castleford are lucky to have a franchise let alone a player like Chase.

Why would he want to stay there with much bigger clubs knocking on his door?

Contracts, as we've found to our own cost, might as well be written on toilet paper. They can be flushed quite easily.

The story is that Wigan are currently negotiating the compo package for Cas. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but if Chase wants to leave - a la Shenton - there isn't much, utlimately, that Cas can do to prevent it, apart from freeze him out of the game, which is always a pointless exercise when the alternative is to pocket some cash.

Re: Rumours and signings v8 : Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:44 am  

Cruncher wrote:

Castleford are lucky to have a franchise let alone a player like Chase.

Why would he want to stay there with much bigger clubs knocking on his door?

Contracts, as we've found to our own cost, might as well be written on toilet paper. They can be flushed quite easily.

The story is that Wigan are currently negotiating the compo package for Cas. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but if Chase wants to leave - a la Shenton - there isn't much, utlimately, that Cas can do to prevent it, apart from freeze him out of the game, which is always a pointless exercise when the alternative is to pocket some cash.

Where are we thinking of playing him?