The order of play is rumour, strong rumour, rife rumour, nailed on, lie.

I heard Mickey Higham was coming back to Leigh next year.

A very good point. The contract extension for Dwyer came out of the blue and during mid season, someone may have been trying to poach him, but it could be that this was an insurance policy by the club.

You missed the "sponsored Halliwell Jones vehicle on Boxing Day" in between nailed on and lie.

Leauge Express reporting Cas amongst others looking at Pellisier (sp) from Catalans

Sooooooo with the M Monaghan news does this rumour come back on the burner?

lets hope so, he is head and shoulders the best hooker in super league.

he has been since half way through last season in my opinion.....he has it all.

Michael Monaghan has everything he showed it against leeds. 'Everything' in my opinion is: Accurate distribution from dummy half, then running from dummy half, at pace and at the right time. Then it's defence of the highest quality organising the defensive line and bringing down much bigger forwards one on one. Then it's organising the plays. Added bonus is a kicking game from the dummy half position. This was his weakest area but he still came up with the odd 40 20.

I don't know if Clarke has all these or is his pace getting everyone excited so no one cares if he can't kick or isnt the best pound for pound tackler in the league. ...

I haven't seen that many cas games to be honest and I certainly haven't seen him put the top of the table team on the back foot like monas did on Friday.

just trying to make sure we don't get carried away.
I thought we were getting Cameron Smith any way. ..so what do I know?

You might be right biscuit but Daryl Clark is 21, he's not going to be the finished article.

At a comparable age Michael Monaghan had played about 7 games for Canberra mostly from the bench, as understudy halfback for Brett Finch and Andrew McFadden.

Daryl Clarke would be a great signing, long run himself and Dwyer would be a good combination. If this does happen I think Dwyer will need a season long loan somewhere rather than sit on the bench all year. If it doesn't then we need to use next season to give Dwyer the chance alongside higham.

The Oracle has spoken, again: https://twitter.com/NeilBarker14/status ... 8506826752

The Oracle has spoken, again: https://twitter.com/NeilBarker14/status ... 8506826752

There was something last night on a Sky Sports feed that was him discussing his current focus being Castleford and not where he would be playing next season. No other teams where mentioned in the feed.

Terry O Conner has just said that Daryl Clark will be at a Warrington next year on Superleague Fulltime.

If he doesn't come here for next season then a lot of people will have egg on their faces.

Its not the Egg on our faces we would need to worry about, it would be missing out on potentially the best Number 9 of his generation. Look what Cunningham did for Saints over the years.

If he doesn't come here then it would mean that we have released him from the contract he has signed. I was told about 12 months ago, when he signed, that he had commited to us, by a Warrington player. I have since had it confirmed by an even better source.

I meant journalists..

there is going to be about 10 people trying to say 'i told you so' when the clarke signing is announced... its going to be embarrassing.

It was a Cas fan that came on here at the back end of lasts season and told us all it was done and dusted.

I told someone that first.

I'm spartacus

Chris Irvine who is The Times & Sunday Times RL correspondent has tweeted the following

Some people don't accept news until "officially" announced. Daryl Clark will "officially" join Warrington in October. Castleford can enjoy Daryl Clark for the rest of this season, but he will be a Warrington player in 2015. Some talent!

Probably the Cas fan in question.

Spoke to Daz a month or so ago, to get told "I'm not gone until I'm gone" suggesting his mind wasn't made up.
This was contrast to what well connected members told me later that night that we'd arranged with yourselves to back out of the deal, increase Daz's deal to match yours and you'd agreed, subject to a compensation fee. Only for him to want to leave anyway.

I'm 90% sure he's going.

The social media offers a couple of straws for fans to clutch at, that's all it is.

A picture tweeted from a cafe owner who offered him a free breakfast everyday to stay, And he wouldn't get that at Wire. Daz favourited it
And a couple of players in the youth set up claiming he's staying

Straws to clutch at that's all

I'm just enjoying watching the leagues best number 9 in our colours, and hoping he scores the winner at Wembley if we get there.

Just watched the Super League show on which Tanya Arnold said Daryl is coming to the Wire for 2015 just 'waiting for it to be announced'. Danny Maguire said DC wont be at Cas next season.

I have just been looking at the recently published Wolves accounts. There is a lot to take in, but one item seems quite interesting; 'net cost on transfer fees £215,000'. The accounts are drawn up to the end of November 2013 so should cover all our new signings for this year. That would include Asotasi, Penny, Russel and England. The only player on that list that (I think) incurred a transfer fee was Anthony England, and the negotiations dragged on quite a bit, so perhaps we paid something in the region of £30k ? I wonder where the other £180,000 went ?