Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:23 pm  

http://www.totalrl.com/gossip-gaskell-m ... gh-switch/ Hope this is not true

http://www.totalrl.com/gossip-gaskell-m ... gh-switch/ Hope this is not true

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:27 pm  

Plenty of reason for him to make the switch, closer to home. A higher salary and similar chance of playing super league.

We need to let the lad know how important he is to us as a club.

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:31 pm  

Briefing the press to unsettle people and get under their skin doesn't seem like something that would happen at Leigh so there's probably some truth to it.

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:35 pm  

They wouldn't be talking to anyone before the "tapping up" deadline, would they?

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:36 pm  

Uh huh. Slightly odd timing of such a story just after Leigh are in the midst of all there trouble regarding a half back.

Pinch of salt needed here, I feel

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:45 pm  

Doesn't matter if its true or not, his contract is due to run out and, like any one of us, he will look to do what's best for him and his family.

If he looks elsewhere I doubt it would be Leigh, simply because like us, they won't know whether or not they will be in SL, and so cannot offer him SL wages. Unless they are mad, which of course no-one can rule out.

Even then, would he WANT another potential season in the Championship?

If the answer to that is a "yes" or "maybe, it depends", then it would be up to us, if we wanted to keep him, to make him an offer he couldn't refuse. He won't make any decisions until he knows what's on the table here, so it doesn't really matter whether there are any approaches. He doesn't strike me as the type to get "unsettled" by paper talk.

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:45 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Uh huh. Slightly odd timing of such a story just after Leigh are in the midst of all there trouble regarding a half back.

Pinch of salt needed here, I feel

Agreed. Gaskells happy and settled here but if we're still in the championship Gaskell won't be here, he'll be in SL.

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:47 pm  

Would imagine Gaskell will be playing SL with someone next year, hopefully us but if we dont go up and leigh do then it could be them. If Leigh dont go up either then Gaskell will be off to a SL Club. cant see him switching to leigh if thy stay in championship.

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:02 pm  

It would be ludicrous to sign up with a non-SL club unless the deal was unbeatable. Even then he may want a guarantee of SL rugby.

The problem with the MPG for the clubs concerned is they have to try to make deals with players for the next season, but without knowing which league they'll be in. The problem is the same for the players either currently playing for, or being approached by, those clubs. By the time of the MPG most clubs are pretty well sorted for the next season.

Even SL clubs would need to leave a pretty big hole in their caps to have room for a Gaskell, and so i'd think it more likely that he will sign for a SL club whatever happens , although its not impossible that he might wait and see if we go up, but who'd risk their livelihood on that chance?

[Bullseye]

Re: Gaskell : Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:46 pm  

He'll keep his options open I reckon. Why wouldn't he?

If he gets an offer in SL and we don't go up I think he'll go and I wouldn't blame him.

If Leigh go up and we don't he could go there and I wouldn't blame him either.

He's good enough for SL for sure. Depends if he has ambitions to play there.