Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:22 am  

You have hit the nail on the head woolly! If I was Leeds I'd be looking at Gaskell rather than brierley! Gaskell is more of a ball player who can lead you round the pitch, brierley is a opportunist who scores a lot of trees (poor mans Danny maguire you could say) if you end up with brierley and we get Gaskell I'd be over the moon. Honestly though it's just another bullc**p article written by a clueless journo

Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:41 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

From what I've seen, the "journo" that broke this story seems to put a lot of non-stories on Total-RL, but occasionally hits it spot on.

This is actually an adaption of a story by the same "insider" in the latest edition of Rugby League World (published 3 weeks ago) which claims that Gaskell was currently on the brink of signing for Leigh this year on an improved contract and giving the Bulls a decent payday to boot before he was Out of contract. So already this story on TRL is a backtrack of some thing they have already said and is probably trying to save face at a huge claim that has yet to come to pass.

Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:58 am  

Problem Gaskell has is, if he wants to play Super League next season, he'll have concrete offers from May (officially), so would be a gamble to wait till MPG.

I'd say there's more chance of him moving to a safe (or highly unlikely to be relegated) SL team than there is of him playing for Bradford or Leigh next season.

Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:14 pm  

woolly07 wrote:

I don't expect to see Gaskell with us next season. He will need to decide in the summer - months before the play offs start, and that is the problem for him. I can just imagine his agents reaction if Gaskell says "let's wait till October to see what happens with the Bulls". His reaction to that would probably not be printable on here.

Why does he, though? All the SL clubs who might be potential suitors would know his situation, it is not compulsory (as we know) to have your star halfbacks signed by the playoffs, and frankly there are not that many around anyway.

The Bulls could even sign him up on a new SL deal, or less if we don't make it, but with a clause that he's free to leave to a SL club, if he wants. That would suit everybody, pretty much.

Of course, if Salford come in and offer him £250k plus a Maserati, then he's gone, we all get that.

[Bullseye]

Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:30 pm  

FA sums it up quite well.

Gaskell holds almost all the cards but he's already shown commitment to us for last season and this one in the Championship. I'd be surprised if he decides to spend any more time in this league after this season.

I can think of a few SL clubs that could use him at the moment.

Re: Gaskell : Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:36 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

You have hit the nail on the head woolly! If I was Leeds I'd be looking at Gaskell rather than brierley! Gaskell is more of a ball player who can lead you round the pitch, brierley is a opportunist who scores a lot of trees (poor mans Danny maguire you could say) if you end up with brierley and we get Gaskell I'd be over the moon. Honestly though it's just another bullc**p article written by a clueless journo

Why would Leeds even consider looking at Gaskell if Brierley is available?

oggy123 wrote:

It's really this simple! As a rugby player Gaskell is better than Ridyard end of story! Gaskell wouldn't get in our team ahead of Ridyard as he has a unbelievable partnership with breireley who is better than Gaskell and plays the Same role! Enough of this tit for tat Gaskell is a incredible player and wouldn't mind him at Leigh but he wouldn't be a starting halfback for us!

TRANSLATION: Brierley is far better than Gaskell until he decides that he doesn't want to play for Leigh anymore in which case he becomes just an opportunist (poor man's Danny McGuire) who scores a lot of trees(???).

Re: Gaskell : Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:33 am  

From what I've seen, Gaskell is committed to us, which renders this thread rubbish. The posts previous to this go a long way to back this argument up.

Anyway I've heard that Rangi Chase has flu.....

Re: Gaskell : Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:16 am  

DrFeelgood wrote:

From what I've seen, Gaskell is committed to us, which renders this thread rubbish. The posts previous to this go a long way to back this argument up.

Anyway I've heard that Rangi Chase has flu.....

Well, I've heard he's certainly sniffing a lot

Re: Gaskell : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:34 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Well, I've heard he's certainly sniffing a lot

Re: Gaskell : Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:21 pm  

Anyone else seen the rumour on Twitter he's signing for Leigh next week?