Confirmed leaving. www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1754 Hope he has signed with Us (Giants) has got blistering pace and with a good pre season with us might beable to get a starting spot on the wing and great replacement fullback if grix gets injured!

Confirmed leaving. www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1754 Hope he has signed with Us (Giants) has got blistering pace and with a good pre season with us might beable to get a starting spot on the wing and great replacement fullback if grix gets injured!

According to the website, Greg has a turned down a two year contact with the club and hence decided to take his chances else where.

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For me the key line in the statement is typical defensive corporate cobblers '...The offer tabled to Greg was consistent with the policy that has worked well in recent years for young players who are unproven at Super League level. '

At a meet the Directors night earlier in the year. The question was raised about what we are going to do to secure the future of the excellent crop of youngsters coming through the club at the moment. The directors there present, agreed the need to secure them was important.....and that we as a club needed to start by offering them better deals than we currently do, as current offer amounts to peanuts basically.

Hence what a completely contradictory statement given today.........same old....same old Cas as ever!

A player with genuine place and skill gone



Is this a sign of the club on the slide or a club just resting on their laurels?

There are a number of reasons that youngsters wouldn't want to play for Cas that are nothing to do with money:

1. League position/chance for trophies
2. Stadium
3. Training facilities
4. Future security - we're still far from a long-term SL tenure

Perhaps Cas offered him the right deal, but another club just appeal more because of the reasons above. He's hardly going to be offered a massive wage at any other SL club, but his chances for progression to the top level and international honours might be stronger elsewhere.

What Cas need to get sorted is the stadium. From there we can increase our resources, improve our league position and become a much more attractive proposition for young players with a bright future in the game.

He was offered a fulltime contract,HE, has decided to refuse the contract,end of,move on.

Seriously the money levels being discussed were barely above minimum wage. Why would anyone serious about a career in the game, sign up to 2 years of that?

Yet the club threw silly money at Sherwin,Hudson and Mcgoldick. No way on god's earth were they worth the money



I think Eden will make the grade if it is the Giants he goes to.

TBH from what i have seen of him he as pace but could not tackle me, put money on he wont play regular in super league.

A shame Greg's gone but a two year contract was offered and turned down there's not alot you can say , move on

Delboy66(aye of the tigers fanzine)

Huddersfield bound, he'll be a star.

I can sympathise with you on this one - Shudds don't need to bother with an academy set-up, so long as they've got WTW and Cas doing it for them, and access to Uncle Ken's bottomless chequebook.

3 now from Cas I think bren2k. Matt Dawson, Jamie Cording & Eden.

how do you explain...

Micheal Lawrence
Leroy cudjoe
Eorl Crabtree
Andy Raleigh
Jermaine Mcgillvary
Jacob Fairbank etc...

products of the giants and youth system and more to follow

we have lost our own youngsters in times gone by when we were bottom or super league and relegated

chris bridge springs to mind

yeh but we ofload a few back to you



jackson
hudson
snitch
jones
fozzard
aspinwall

all ex giants



and even do you the favour of loaning you kyle wood!

as for wakefield...

Luke george
Korkidas
Griffin
Johnson

You offered george a big wage to leave our academy setup and we gave you the last two for free!

but think george is coming back home soon

And if the contract was out of sync with current market prices, below par, as the directors themselves admitted in Feb?...he should have just taken it anyway should he? C'mon lets at least be real about these things.

Jackson, Hudson & Snitch are all Wakefield products I think? Jones & Aspinwall from the Wigan setup & Fozzard from Leeds. Kyle Wood is a product of Castleford junior rugby but not sure where he served his academy years.

I don't think there are any Huddersfield products in the Castleford squad.

Any the Giants aren't doing anything wrong by the way, it's good to see them investing in young English players, it'd just be nicer if we could keep ours at our club but that's our problem, not yours.

We did this to death at the time, but don't be trying to kid anyone on - you didn't 'give' Griffin and Johnson to us - they were released, probably to make room for Ferguson, a player you obtained in a way that still sticks in the craw. And we're talking about fringe players, one of whom was and still is facing a lengthy stretch in the big house.

Korkidas is still on your books I believe - on permanent loan as part of the Brough 'deal.'

Some facts are always useful in a discussion like this.

I never said he should have 'just taken it anyway' ,all im saying is the kid for whatever reason (and im damn sure we as supporters will never know the real contract offer made to him ) decided against signing a new two year contract with the club, He will not be a Tigers player next season so as far as im concerned Its done and dusted If that aint getting real then so be it



Delboy66(aye of the tigers fanzine)

A cas lad turning down a new contract with the club. WHY!!!
There as to be a reason.

From what people are saying, offering embarrassing offers to the kids will be why.

He may be from Huddersfield but he isn't a product of the club as he came via Sheffield and HKR. Bridge is from Oldham.

Griffin is a Wakefield Academy player who went to Hudds then came back.

Jackson & Hudson are Huddersfield academy products.

bridge was from our academy though, we arent talking about places of birth.. raleigh played for hudds before both sheff and hkr.

anyway, think most players have links with alot of clubs nowadays so harsh to single our hudds.