Ryan Claton,Chris Feather,Ryan Boyle will be leaving the club now there contracts have come to a end..what your thoughts???me personaly would have like matterson to work with boyle as i think he has potential

I still reckon we'll see Clayton given another year and I haven't given up hope on Boyle being offered another deal although admittedly it does look unlikely now.

Clayton has impressed me since returning but as many will attest to, he's no world beater.

Boyle looks like he could do great things and it would be nice to see him do that at his home town club but it seems that for whatever reason he isn't going to be kept on. We can all speculate as to why that may be, but I guess we might never really know the truth.

Feather hasn't earned another deal and has looked poor for the majority of the season after good early signs.

been a long time coming and largely expected. Trying to pre-empt the moaning to come:

We demand our coach got us promoted, we demanded our coach improved out 12th finish and targetted the play-offs - so now we need to trust he knows what he's doing.

There can't be anyone on here who claims to have better insight into players at the club's potential, how they train and how far in the game they can go. I often think I know best and give my opinion but truly, I don't.

A few years ago I was cock-a-hoop when we signed Andrew John's halfback partner from Australia....... We all know how Rudder turned out and a few years before that when we signed a journeyman stand-off who started badly and eventually was so average at 6 we had to move him to 13 and we all kow how Vowles turned out.

So, lets not roll out the "sack TM and his aussie favourites" banner until we get to February and see the 'new' on field product.

I agree I would rather have kept Boyle in MY OPINION, but if there is something else going on here that I don't read in the program or see on the field, then I have to trust Terry. Just like I would not accept anyone in my company telling me how to run my part of the business.

People will!

I didn't realise that this was an official announcement, more an assumption that new deals hadn't been offered and therefore they were gone.

It's a massive shame about Boyle but I guess we'll see if it was a mistake or not at some point down the line.

States that these three plus James Ford are the only ones leaving the senior squad. Does that mean we can take netherton as having signed a new deal.

just a thought or am i reading between the lines

I'm sure RW made a statement recently saying they were in talks with Netherton about extending his contract.

so thats 5 out (Faumuina, Ford, Clayton, Feather, Boyle)
and 2 In (Jackson, Snitch) do far.

dont know all the reasons for letting boyley go but can not think that jackson will offer anything better ryan. most people know that he is only 21/22 years old and jackson about 30/31 years old, just dont understand it at all, the games i have seen him in, he has done well. to keep picking clayton in place of him on a regular basis must have hurt him too.

Like the majority on here I'm disappointed to see Boyle being let go but will hold fire on too much criticism and see how this pans out in the long term. Of the others can't say I'm too bothered.

What does concern me is the apparent planned size of next years squad.

5 first team players have been let go and so far 2 have been signed. Matterson is quoted as saying that he plans to bring in 'a couple more'.

It doesn't take a maths genius to see that leaves us a player down on this seasons squad that most people considered too small, albeit we were relatively lucky with injuries this season (not having more than 3 or 4 out at any 1 time) so got away with it.

The promoting of junior players to the first team squad was used as a bit of a smoke screen with our squad size this year. Although we had 27/28 players given a first team squad number around 7 of these were juniors who Matterson clearly didn't want to risk in Superleague as they got very little if any game time.

I can't help but look at the number of players the likes of Wakey and Hull had to do without for much of this season. In the early part of the season Wakey had 8-10 players out injured for a number of weeks but were able to put a side on the field that was not only competitive but actually won a fair number of games.

If Cas had 8 or more of our first team out injured this season we'd have been about as good as Celtic and won about as many games! It doesn't look like that situation is about to be improved in 2010.

I don't mind having a small squad bulked out with youngsters as long as the youngsters actually get some game time...

Saw Boyle in Wakie during the "mad monday" do, and after having a talk with him he confessed that he is very sad to be leaving the Tigers saying and i quote " I tried my best and pleaded ".

Sad to see him go imo, heart was at Cas

Also good luck to Chris and Ryan Clayton also, Ryan seemed to try hard towards the back end, too little to late i guess.

Good luck all you guys

Very sad to see Boyle go.