Think someone's been having a laugh.

Well, if it is true does that mean Cas can shop them into the RFL now for an illegal approach?

Clubs are allowed to talk to the players before the anti-tampering deadline as long as the player's club gives them permission.
Basically, any club could talk to a Cas player before the deadline as long as Cas have given them permission.

Why would Cas give a team permission to talk to one of their home grown players they will want to re-sign themselves?

Correct.

Unless Joe Arundel has said in no uncertain terms that he will not sign for Cas.

Regardless of that, Cas have released a statement on Twitter advising it was due to an internal human error and that Joe is a Cas player and is in talks for a new deal.

Am I supposed to know that?

Maybe the club had talks with the player and they failed.

Maybe the player had made it clear that he wished to leave the club.

Maybe the club lacked ambition and wished to see if they could make any money out of it.

I don't know and I didn't claim to. I just explained how it works.

more like someone has made a balls up at cas on the website and are now trying to save face!

Seems a bit of a poor excuse that, how can you make an error of adding to his bio that he has signed for Hull? Fair enough if it was his DOB that was wrong by a year or something....

Another day, another 'Doh'....such is life here at CTRLFC.

Do you honestly believe that?

Arundel's agent has already done the deal with Hull FC and Joe has already told Cas he's going, it can't physically be signed or announced due to the anti-tampering law, But it's done.

There is no smoke without fire and the rumour is that he will go, I personally think it is a done deal and it will be announced after the anti-tampering deadline although I have no evidence that this is the case. Until it is confirmed by the club though, he is still our player.

It's been on the cards for a while now.

As for human error, who writes that sort of thing on a player's bio 'by accident'?

There is no defending Cas again, were a club run worse than any of the amature clubs around us.

People can't go on defending RW after the 30th when RW has again failed on a promise, If the ground is sold by the 30th then I will retract and hail RW as the messiah.

The line is in the sand Richard (yes i cried wolf ) Wright its up to you to produce

Posted elsewhere, but here goes:

I am not sure what people expect at times. If you look at the current crop:
Owen, Thompson, Clare, Arundel, Huby, Massey, Holmes, Atkinson made debut, Davies, Brierly probably, Milner, Clarke, Walker are all young players who have developped here. (Owen may be out of form, but he is still the one from 2 years ago, some are young, but thats OK)

Add to that Shenton and Westerman who for various reasons were acceptable departures - I don't think that Eden and the alledged and assumed departure of Arundel to Hull qualifies as an exodus.
In the same period we have obtained Chase, Dixon, Griffin, Mitchell potentially who are young players who had options and have big improvement in them, not to mention the next batch in the 20's as yet out of our headlines.

It would be nice to keep them all - agree, but could it be that Westy is in his ear, they are pals and the player himself wants to play with his mates or wants to wring more dollars out somewhere? Would I rather he stayed yes, but he ain't Mark Gasnier and on the whole we have been ahead.
Yeah that kid went to Hull KR and is OK, but we have OK. Gledhill went to Wakey, again, OK, but I wouldn't swap Massey for him.

Weird how things get a head of steam and get a proper furore going on here. I think people are getting way too giddy about one lad.
The web site thing is tricky, if someone did it maliciously, we should sack them, I would consider that misconduct likely to cause loss or damage to the business. That'll need to be in private.