He talks well on Wildcats TV

2 years.
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The club can confirm that no discussions have taken place regarding the final year of Mathers' three year contract (2013) and that he will be free to face the Tigers in all competitions next season.[/i

Personally not bothered he has left really, he reminds me of a turnstyle. When anyone comes to him he does a 360 and the opposition player ends up scoring.

by 'eck that was a closley guarded secret! dint see this one coming.

Wow, never expected that...no really

I'm pretty pleased with Mathers signing,has a good football brain,where does that leave Tony and Ben Cockayne position wise?

I would say Cockayne to the wing and Tony as backup

Personally never rated him although he did have an impressive career at Leeds. you do not go to the NRL and top clubs in the UK if you are poor.

Very much a confidence player, if he starts well he could be an excellent signing, bringing experience a cool head and good organisational skills.

It is how he reacts to errors that for me is the area of concern. Once he comes up with one error his head goes down and the howlers seem to come thick and fact.

Never seemed to settle anywhere since Leeds hope he finds a home at Wakefield his head is in the right place and he can become a more consistent performer than he has been since his Rhino's days.

Contradicting yourself a little there Jonh.

Good deal for us we all know he can do it lets hope he does the backs are looking good now just need the PNG hooker and a decent prop

not a very good signing im afraid he preferrs golf these days .But hey time will tell

He can be a good player on his day, but these tend to be the days he is not tested too much defensively!
I think his main problem is if he makes a mistake, he tends to make another, then another, then another and so on. One mistake can lead to a nightmare of a game, then one nightmare games leads to another, then another and then another. He seems to be unable to mentally overcome errors or poor games. So as long as he doesn't ever make a mistake.......................................

To me a cracking signing thought he was stand out last year for them. Millward told him to go away and find another club because they could not afford his wages, but the lad kept turning up.Along with Masky a top notch signing.

Unfortunately he stood out for the wrong reasons more often than for the right ones, although he did seem to play well against Wakefield.

Milward told him he wasn't wanted because he wasn't our first choice fullback and we wanted to spend his wages on a centre instead of having him as a squad player.

Wouldnt have said he was a stand out player for us last year- chase, huby, orr, arundel, thompson, emitt, milner, clark, owen, youngquest and dixon were all far more important for cas last year.

so we have a spy in the camp



be careful what you tell Mr Glover

Mathers is clearly a confidence player - if we're putting in some decent shifts and on the front foot a bit more, he may shine; either way, he's certainly a full back who will add an extra dimension to the attacking line, which we haven't really had for ages. Just hope he's hitting the tackle bags during the off-season.

He does strike me as a belligerent type, so if he's coming to us with a point to prove, there's every chance he could go well.

One request Richard - lay off Twitter.

Aiton getting his visa fastracked, having to fly to Canberra to get it done.
Hoping to be flying out to the uk next week.
Fingers crossed.

good genuine bloke and a solid performer......has the occassional brain fart but solid pro

Complete Nob but he's our Nob now, on the field RM is good at joining the attacking line from full back position; in defence he has decent positional play 1:1 tackling got a lot to work on, played in some good teams with some good players... Better than we had in this position English too adds depth. Good signing IMO with Paul Aiton to be announced in the morning I believe!

Been mulling it over all evening and can't bring myself round. Don't think this is a good signing. Without doubt he'll do a job, but that's about it, I can't imagine him standing out. I've never really thought much of him, always thought he was prone to making some really silly decisions both in attack and defence and never really seems able to catch a ball.

We shall see though. Hopefully, my doubts will be proved wrong.

Didn't he get a load of stick on this board after the last Cas derby at Belle Vue for deliberately winding up Wakey fans and generally being obnoxious?

more Rangi than Mathers but we are stuck with him, not my choice I would of liked to have seen Tongia get year at least but afraid its cost him not using his national passport

good luck to the lad

Yeah, just had a trawl through the threads and a scan of the highlights video. Think you're right. McGoldrick performed THAT tackle. And, at the end of the match Chase and Youngqest danced round the field goading the Wakey fans.

Mathers did however launch the ball at the occupants of the Benidorm flats after scoring and do a bit of fist pumping; heat of the moment stuff I suppose, for which I'm sure he'll apologise.

It's interesting to note that since this deal was announced, good old Gronky and a couple of others over on the Cas board have him down as one of their worst performers from last season; the absolute best thing he can do to win over the Wakey faithful therefore, is to haunt Cas every time we play them - a couple of scores and a bit of badge-kissing should do the trick.

It would be fairer to say he put in one or two of the worst performances and his first half showing against Wigan at WR must rank as the most disastrous I've ever seen from a Cas FB. However more often he was one of our better players...that's Richie for you. He was never going to be prefered to Owen but I'm sure he would have been at least as productive/reliable in the threequarters as the under-achiever Widnes have relieved us of.

Made up with the signing, good luck Richie!