Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:49 pm  

Good luck to him.
Did we get a fee?

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:46 pm  

Can't really add much to what's been said. A player held in high regard by many and I wish him well.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:11 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

Good luck to him.
Did we get a fee?

I very much doubt it

[Frosties.]

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:21 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

Good luck to him.
Did we get a fee?

To me it sounds like they’ve agreed to just take over the final three years of his current contract.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:32 pm  

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Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:57 pm  

Shoddily treated by the club over the past 12 months but the right outcome in the end for him. I suspect he will go onto become a very good SL standard player.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:32 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Shoddily treated by the club over the past 12 months but the right outcome in the end for him. I suspect he will go onto become a very good SL standard player.

Agree with all points and I suspect the main reason for this was down to wanting him off the wage bill.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:45 am  

You say shoddily treated but what else should they have done? Decision was made that Walker was ahead of him. He could maybe have featured a couple more times in first grade but I don’t see that Leeds have done wrong by him.

Not every lad will make it at a club where the ambition is to be one of the best sides in the world.

Whereas Walker still has plenty to work on and isn’t the finished article yet, he has arguably the higher potential. Then again the answer at FB might be coming through the Academy.

The club shouldn’t have given Ashton a 5 year deal in the first place really at his age but hindsight’s easy.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:00 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

You say shoddily treated but what else should they have done? Decision was made that Walker was ahead of him. He could maybe have featured a couple more times in first grade but I don’t see that Leeds have done wrong by him.

They told him he could leave (fair enough, change in management, didn't see him in their plans). But then to force him out they refused to even countenance picking him, even when Walker was injured, even when we were struggling and needed a safe pair of hands. Hardball maybe, but the opposite of Sinfield's "we do right by our players" mantra.

Re: OUT 2020 | Ashton Golding - Huddersfield Giants : Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:18 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

They told him he could leave (fair enough, change in management, didn't see him in their plans). But then to force him out they refused to countenance picking him, even when Walker was injured, even when we were struggling and needed a safe pair of hands. Hard ball maybe, but the opposite of Sinfield's "we do right by our players" mantra.

Yep that’s the part I didn’t like. Fair enough Walker’s ahead of him but when Walkers injured surely he’s your next choice.

Unless it’s a salary cap issue? I’m sure there’s a rule that if they don’t play a game then they’re not counted on the cap.