Gale has signed a contract extension - to be announced soon (possibly Monday). Will cost you a lot more to get him now.

Like I said....decent player looks at his options. He sees what he has now and the speculated apparent interest from a rival club....a club languishing at rock bottom of the SL with no guarantee of SL footie next season. Which would you choose?



Arrogant to assume otherwise really

And herein also lies one of the problems of the salary cap - it's fairly unusual for players to move.
Say Gale is currently on 80k and his new contract at Cas is 100k. That's only 20k extra Cas need to account for under the salary cap. Any other club would need to find the whole 100k.

Depends who they get rid of to accommodate him.

Gale has signed a five year deal with Cas. Still intrigued to hear the news that will shock the world of rugby. Also going around Twitter yesterday was Aussie papers reporting Leeds have offered farah a 2/3 year deal.

To add to that I'm pretty disappointed we didn't get gale, I thought he'd be a perfect fit for us. But can't blame him

I hope we sign Farah. he is a leader and a hooker, two key boxes ticked on our priority list.

He will come if G.H dangles a Liverpool season ticket in front of him...a big fan apparently.

They could save £20k on Lilley.

he looks like the second coming of graham holroyd.

Perfect fit for us yes, but obviously not for him. As said elsewhere why would a decent player want to join a struggling bottom dweller SL club that has no guarantee of future SL status never mind the chance to win silverware within his career? It really is arrogant of some to think otherwise.
Leeds 2016 onwards (2015 is history) has to show it is a club going places: no sign of that is there?. The time to sign up players for 2017 is now and it aint looking good for attracting them really, is it?

We are dependent on the present set up lifting us out of this shiite to hopefully make us a better proposition for decent players to be brought in for 2018.

He isn't perfect for us at all. He is an improvement on what we currently have. He is a very good player, a player who with the other options around should be close to playing for his country, but perfect for us? There is much better out there, and it is much better that Leeds need going forward. We need someone with a lot more facets to his game whilst Lilley develops his own game.

Like I say, it would have been nice, but it is not disastrous we don't get him, unless we stick with what we have.