Can someone please tell me this is a joke?

He has been one of our better players this year so why has he gone on loan to Cas?

This makes no sense, but i'm sure we will extend the contracts of some other less useful players,... a joke

Think that confirms we are pretty much writing this season off.
The other side could be we are about bring someone in on quota spot

Going around slagging your employers off in public just might have some consequences.

He has one good game in 6 - let's not kid ourselves.

If he doesn't want to play - get rid.

Rather that than him playing and being totally not bothered (Sezer can follow him as far as i'm concerned).

The holiday is over lads.

Deadline in a few hours, I wonder if there is another announcement on the way

I don't think we'll bring anyone in, RS has said that he trusts the whole squad, realistically the season is all but done so might as well give some of the younger players valuable game time, it could be the making of Sinfield.

No, there was no planning for this, its come out of the blue clearly as Austin was training yesterdays and then asked for the release.

Andy Last said they heard of Austins availability at 9pm last night, I bet hes been given a bollocking by GH and has asked to leave.

I reckon that's exactly what's happened.

Yeah ,great move is this.

Hopefully means more game time fir Sinfield

What's the ruling now regarding players on loan playing against their parent club? We play Cas last game of season, is he allowed to play against us?

It would have to be a specific clause in the contract I think.

Not sure he is good enough for 1st team (yet?)

It does leave us with a hole in the team though, i thought Austin was one of our better players this year and always seemed to give his all.. Unless we get some decent halves then we could be looking at a worse squad than this year.. several others off contract. Losing walters, not sure on the french bloke who is his replacement.

They will say we are still rebuilding.... looks like the good old days are way behind us now and probably have to settle for mediocre/mid-table for a few years...

Maybe the club needs new owners to refresh things and move forward.

What a mess. He’s obviously got a rollocking and kicked his toys out of the cot. But this season is shaping up as being a really poor one. I think Cas stay up now. Wakey will be fuming.

If we don’t make big moves in the market now there’s serious serious questions needing answers to. This absolutely cannot happen again

It would seem clear to me that there has been a fallout between Austin and GH. RS has said that he didn’t know about the loan deal until after it was agreed overnight, though he approves of what has happened. He didn’t really have much option to say otherwise in the press though.

Almost impossible to get a replacement in now before the deadline. I’d guess it will be Myler (if the foot rumours aren’t true) and Sezer, with Sinfield/Johnson/Smith filling in.

Unless we are going to splash some cash for a half under contract then I don’t see many OOC players that I’d trust to turn our mid table side into contenders.

I’m pretty neutral on losing Austin overall. I personally wouldn’t have kept him past this year ideally anyway. He has a bit of the Brad Dwyer about him, tries hard, has moments of brilliance but doesn’t make the team better overall (Not that many people are in that category now!). But any player who wants to leave mid season can go for me!