Rangi Chase

After he has served his upcoming ban somewhere between 4 to 6 games ( well he should get at least that after his tackle on Hardaker) i think Cas might decide to get rid.

think max he can get is two match ban.

not a bad option if thats the way we wanted to go.

odonnell thought to be taking a pay cut to join sydney!!! no surprise there then

Only saw it briefly on Sky last night thought it looked like an elbow to the head but maybe in slo mo it was not as bad as i thought.

Do not think him and Broughy would gel to be honest (has never looked good for England playing with better quality players around him than at Cas).

Big risk that do not think we need to take at present and I'd sit tight for now and only go for a marquee signing if they are 100% right for us (think Chase may cause a few ripples in the changing room) or needs must due to injuries or loss of form.

Good player for sure....would he be good for us...not sure he would.

Trouble is there will be no half backs around to sign. Wigan and Hull have all being looking around have struggled to get one.

No more decent Aussies will be coming over so any half backs are going to be British based established players or upcoming and unproven youngsters.

If he was a possibility it could be run by the senior squad players as to whether they think it would be a good idea.

Brough maybe attracted by playing with his half back partner in potentially a winning World Cup year



I still think Gaskell could be a good player. In a good team and feeling he has the confidence of his coaches he may prove to be a good signing. He was pushed out at Saints last year and i am not convinced that he has won over the saints fans ( although if Hohaia has bad injury probably no chance this year).

Can not see a Brough/Chase partnership for England at this stage but there would be a chance if they showed at club level they work well together then never say never.

If the players were happy with it then thats half the battle.

There are always players around if needs must as was proven last season with Lunt, Ferres, Foster and Ellis moving mid season and all doing well where they went and there is some appeal in signing from a position of strength rather than a panic move and I guess the real issue is how much Chase and Cas have kissed and made up and how much each would want to make it happen.

Don`t fancy chase.
He doesn`t know he is doing, never mind the rest of the team.
Not a team player.

Dirty player too.

Wouldn't touch Chase with a barge pole.

Quite happy with our present combination.

Our current combination will not be enough in the big games towards the end of the season. Sad but true IMHO.

i agree its a big risk that we dont need to take... see how the season unfolds then if something pops up we can take advantage..for now no need to disrupt the team.

we were in for fages of salford pre season but dont think we would be able to entice him from salford now.

lets just hold tight.

Journos on twitter saying that LOD has been granted a release to join roosters with full story to come.
Club have just gone from Heros to zeros in terms of telling us the truth about this debacle.

i thought it was common knowledge, thats why i stopped posting press stuff from sydney newspapers....great player who never showed his true colours for fartown due to injuries...

Chase is stuck at Cas anyway - he can't get a visa to play for anyone else.

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=#FF0000but the reality is that Luke is financially in a different place now to that envisaged when he joined at the start of the 2011season,” said Thewlis.

“The changing regulations in respect of off-shore pensions have caused him significant difficulties – as I am sure they must for other overseas players in the UK –



Regardless of him leaving from a playing point of view i do feel unhappy that the club entered into a financial arrangement which effectively works as a tax fiddle.

I know that it has happened a lot in football and judging by the quote above affects other Aussies over here but

I feel justifiably aggrieved that Amazon and Starbucks fiddle their taxes and the club were effectively doing the same to bring LOD over here.

Huddersfield have confirmed that Australian forward, Luke O'Donnell has left the club by mutual consent. The 32 year-old will return home over the weekend and is expected to join NRL side, Sydney Roosters. READ MORE ON THIS STORY....

Huddersfield have confirmed that Australian forward, Luke O'Donnell has left the club by mutual consent. The 32 year-old will return home over the weekend and is expected to join NRL side, Sydney Roosters. READ MORE ON THIS STORY....

It's up to the club to stick to the rules and I'm not going to criticise them for looking at ways to legally minimise costs. The club loses a five figure sum every year that KD has to shell out and cover. Starbucks we ain't and morally there's a difference between minimising losses and avoiding paying taxes on huge profits on UK sales. And legally they've done nothing wrong. The loophole has closed and LOD wanted out. The club have been refreshingly forthright and open, which is what people keep saying they want, so should surely be applauded for it.

Good on them I say. It's a business and not one that makes a profit ATM, not a moral crusade. You cut your cloth accordingly.

think all thats been siad has been said really on this now!

money talks.

will be interesting who else goes back to NRL... puletua of saints rumoured to be off to parramatta

The club weren't fiddling taxes- LOD was!
This financial change has been known about for a long time- LOD knew it would affect him, he's just been waiting for another offer till he dropped us in it. Yes I'm being cynical but I wonder how injured he has been players such as brough brown jerry eorl and wardle played on with injuries.
Thanks for not a lot o donnell
Not quite you came you saw you conquered more like you came, you were injured you got sent off.


Loads of cash to bring in a half back and I for one hope they don't stick with eorl at 13 but bring nack fairbank who shows heaps of promise.

That is true BUT the club made arrangements to pay an offshore account so he could fiddle his taxes. If they said know you will be paid PAYE then he would not have been able to do that.

Good luck to the lad he's been brilliant when fit and with him going now frees up a large slice of the salary cap for us just in case we need to use it.
If I was going to lose a lot of money if I stayed in Scotland until November and had a chance to move back to Mirfield now with a guaranteed job and able to get the money I originally thought I was getting from my current contract then I'd move, who wouldn't? In life you look after number 1 and your family.

Don't you dare, we don't want you back down here






If you did come back down here where would i get my free jollies from

What a ridiculous ill informed statement. Do you think any professional sportsman especially one as firecely competitve as O Donnell would rather be sat in the stand than be down on the pitch playing rugby.

How do you fake a knee reconstruction and a torn hamstring and fool everyone at the club when really there is nothing wrong.



If he wants to go then the Giants are not acheiving anything by standing in his way. I am a little disappointed though this could not have been resolved in the off season.