Re: Youngster jumps ship : Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:26 am  

dawson is a winger - from what i recall he has great potential, saw him play academy last year and have some great games, bit steady this year but the under 20s was a poor outfit overall . this could bite cas big time . I reckon this lad has potential , not the finished product but could be.
It seems cas can only see the obvious starlets like westerman/owen/milner (anyone who has ever watched the game could see that they are worth a shot) but the inability to recognise potential in players like dawson is a worry.

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:19 am  

poppys mum wrote:

I think the reason we had so many youngster play last season was due to the fact we was a small squad and had no one else to call upon.
We had to use the youngsters no option tbh.

I'm under no illusion that the size of the squad meant that youngsters got more chances, but surely that's better than signing temporary veterans or when we resorted to loads of loan-signings.

Plus - we're doing something right that these youngsters look so good, we can't keep them all and it's flattering that top clubs consider these to be the kind they want.

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:04 pm  

Gazemous wrote:

:CLAP:

Anyone who says Matterson has taken this club anywhere but forward needs their head testing...

Is it Matterson's fault that the club probably cannot match the wedge that the midgets will have thrown at him?,

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:33 pm  

money is not the issue - it will be less than 12k per year easy. cas did not want dawson , he was released .

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:20 pm  

Gazemous wrote:

:CLAP:

Anyone who says Matterson has taken this club anywhere but forward needs their head testing...

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:22 am  

why have all the BEST talented kids in the u15's scholarship jumped ship is more of a worry ???

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:49 am  

Promising kid leaves one club for a bigger club....isn't that the way it's always been? Once upon a time Cas would have had no difficulty tempting anyone they fancied away from clubs such as Huddersfield because we were regularly among the 'winners'. When the game became less of a sport than a business the balance of power shifted and the likes of us,Wakey,Oldham,Fev etc have found their conveyor belts of local talent hi-jacked by the Bradfords/Warrington of this world as well as the traditional big hitters like Wigan/Leeds. Huddersfield, by a mixture of good luck and good management have joined the list of clubs above us in the pecking order and while we might not like it we have to live with it...at least for the time being.

It seems fashionable to turn any thread about a disappointing development into another Matterson blame fest but with regard to this particular thread just consider how we managed to get Rangi Chase from St George-Illawara.

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:06 am  

smoking monkey wrote:

Promising kid leaves one club for a bigger club....isn't that the way it's always been? Once upon a time Cas would have had no difficulty tempting anyone they fancied away from clubs such as Huddersfield because we were regularly among the 'winners'. When the game became less of a sport than a business the balance of power shifted and the likes of us,Wakey,Oldham,Fev etc have found their conveyor belts of local talent hi-jacked by the Bradfords/Warrington of this world as well as the traditional big hitters like Wigan/Leeds. Huddersfield, by a mixture of good luck and good management have joined the list of clubs above us in the pecking order and while we might not like it we have to live with it...at least for the time being.

It seems fashionable to turn any thread about a disappointing development into another Matterson blame fest but with regard to this particular thread just consider how we managed to get Rangi Chase from St George-Illawara.

Rangi Chase IS the best player I've seen in a Cas shirt over the last 20 years (considering his defence and kicking is ordinary at best, it goes some way to demonstrate just how lethal he is when he's carrying the ball).

Nikau; Ellis; Ford are all right up there, but considering the players he's had around him, Chase is truly phenomenal. There's barely a single player out there who could have the impact on us that he has.

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:23 am  

best new poster wrote:

why have all the BEST talented kids in the u15's scholarship jumped ship is more of a worry ???

where they gone ? things dont seem too good in the youth section lately from what i hear .

Re: Youngster jumps ship : Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:28 am  

tttiger wrote:

where they gone ? things dont seem too good in the youth section lately from what i hear .

they have gone to fev. most of them were stanley lads, there coach was steve copley who worked at cas and is now at fev, so he took nearly all of them,although a couple went to wakefield.