As I said before, it wont take a bank breaking offer to get Gareth to Cas and as we all know money is not the key factor in his move back to SL. I'm in no way influenced by any of the media hype and to be honest I haven't read more than 2 lines of any paper report surrounding his return anyway. He won't go to the club that offers him the most money, he will go to the club that makes him the right offer to fulfill the wishes of himself and his family. This is why I think it is Richard Wrights signature to lose, don't get me wrong, it needs to be a good financial offer but should be well within the finances available to us for 2013 and beyond.

I kept Mitchell - he's on the bench.

No one is questioning that money will play a part in the grand scheme of things and that he has a family to look after. However, Cas can offer him a financially secure deal over a good period (three years) that will be enough to put food on his table and enough in the bank for him (£100k p/yr)

Additionally, I'm also pretty sure that someone of Gareth Ellis's ilk will have a coaching position with his name on it. He's the sort of role model you need around the place and he has that community champion spirit (with his links from Lock Lane).

Still think there is a lot of naive guess work and taking Ellis and his agent at their word with no realy consideration of the facts. I am not calling either of them liars, but they have a job to do.

I'd love the romantic notions to be right and maybe I shouldn't be so cynical as to judge everyone by my rather mercinary standards but now we are evolving the theory to include a figure of salary he is likely to accept and a job off the field too. I think people are getting way ahead of themselves.