I know this is going to sound bitter but...

Does anybody care? As good as he is, we've been playing without him that long that I won't notice he's gone.

If you'd asked me this at the same time last season, I would have said I was gutted at the thought of him leaving.

But right here, right now? Not all that bothered.

Part of me still wishes he was staying as he's a top quality player. His form at the beginning of the season was down to our abysmal recruiting. FFS he had Danny Addy and Richie Mathers as his creative 7 & 1. Teams just set about 3 players on him and marked him out of the game.

If we had Chisholm & Moss partnering him at the beginning of the season we would have seen a different Lee Gaskell.

I don't disagree with that. And I wouldn't be surprised to see him come back from injury now, play alongside those two and totally destroy Oldham, Swinton etc.

But whilst we know what a great player he is, he didn't look that bothered this season. I know it's probably because the players around him weren't good enough and he was no doubt tired of trying to do it all himself. But that's not an excuse for me. If he still looked like he was doing his absolute best to try and make something happen, even with it all against him, it would be different. But instead it looked to me like he'd given up, and I'm not that fussed about keeping people that do that, regardless of ability.

I disagree. Gaskell has always been one of those players who doesn't look as if he's doing much. Until he does it. It seems to be a trait in many half-decent players, think of people like John Woods or Leon Pryce. I agree he hasn't set the pitch alight when he has played, but frankly the way we have gone about it this year we may as well not have been playing him anyway. He must have had the most frustrating year of his life

It will be interesting to see how he goes again in SL. It will be his third team and two let him go - but he was young! I don't really feel that he has played for us fully and am sure Smith will replace him with someone who will play more time...................er, wait a minute, we might be singing Leon...........OH damn!

It'll be his 4th team I believe. Played for Saints, Salford and us in Super League before we got relegated. Although he spent a lot of time for us and Salford at fullback.

Did I hear correctly that Gaskell declared himself unavailable to play today?

Think this may be true. Frightened of doing his hamstring again and losing new contract at Huddersfield.

When Leigh replace Huddersfield in SL, will his contract still hold?

DrFeelgood wrote

Highlander When Leigh replace Huddersfield in SL, will his contract still hold?


hmm...No strings there then!