On a FOUR YEAR DEAL

Old biscuit knees is making out like a bandit down in Huddersfield

4years, that's some deal.
The only injury he's had of concern would be his hamstrings. Everything else (broken jaw, rib) were impact injuries which can happen to anyone, at any time. But hamstrings can be tricky.
Oh well, if Hudds can get more game time out of him, then he'll go well. It'll be interesting to see if he can force himself into their 17. But if he's got himself a good contract (for 4 years!!) then he won't mind very much if the last 3months with us are anything to go by.

He's still relatively young, English and he's a good half back. All of these things will have contributed to his worth and Huddersfield's hand was probably forced into giving him a contract of such length.
Thewlis is quoted as saying that they had to fight off several SL clubs to sign him so his agent will have had plenty of bargaining power.

Fair play to him I say, it's a short career so who can blame Lee for making the most of his position? There were plenty of games in 2015 when the Bulls fans - and sometimes the opposition fans - would say that he was too good for this division.

It will be interesting to see how he goes next season. He never really lit up SL when he was there earlier in his career. I just hope that Huddersfield still aren't planning on playing him at centre!

*edited for accuracy.

Gaskell has given us some great memories, and I won't forget his winning try at Headingley in the rain the year we went down. We all know that Lowes wasn't doing his job at the beginning of this year, and a key part of his job was getting players to take pride in the shirt which he clearly failed to do. It is a shame that we weren't able to keep these three Huddersfield-bound players motivated and keen to stay with us, as they are genuinely quality players. Their replacements may not have the experience (except Pryce of course) but, unlike some of the outgoing players, they seem like they want to be here and are willing to give everything they have for the club, which is good enough for me.

He's 26 and he's not made it through a full season without a long term injury. If he makes it to the end of the 4 years without being forced to retire, I'll be impressed

Don't be daft. He was going fine in 2015 until someone elbowed him in the face and broke his jaw. He then collided with a post in a freak injury against Wakefield.

Hamstring injuries are notorious for healing slowly but it's not as if he has a long track record of hamstring injuries.

It's funny how there was none of this talk in 2015 when he was ripping it up.

He was excellent for us in 2015 and it was typical of our luck that he got his jaw broken then did his back in when we needed him most. Had he been fit and in from for the 2015 MPG things may have been different.

In 2016 he was left to carry the side on his own after Mullaney went home and he was left with Mathers and Addy as his playmaking partners. You could see him getting frustrated and he was a marked man. His form suffered. His hamstring injury topped it off. Apparently it remained dodgy from then on. If you believe the rumours he didn’t want to play for fear of doing it again. He’d already decided he was on his way.

Thanks for your efforts – at least up until late on this season.

Great work by his agent. I didn't think he could even get 4 years in Crown Court.

I wonder if his agent negotiates prepacks and administrations? Worth a call?

In League Express this week, Rick Stone is quoted as saying "We haven't brought anyone in of note yet, which is disappointing" in a piece where he says he isn't happy with their recruitment. He clearly rates Gaskell & Clough!

What an odd thing for a coach to say publicly. I bet Ken Davy was thrilled to hear that.

The rest of the article (which I admittedly couldn't be bothered typing) isn't much better. He sounds thoroughly unhappy with the recruitment that was signed before he got there.

Even if he is unhappy with it, it's ridiculous to come out and say it in the press like that. Regardless of whether he's right or not, the only effect it will have is to thoroughly demoralise those players brought in. He should be publicly supporting them, whilst privately ranting to the wife what a load of crap it is.

It all screams of covering his own backside with a "You can't blame me if we're crap this year" statement.

Tend to agree Hamster. That said Clough is a half decent prop when he can be bothered, certainly at our level and Gaskell is a fair half, but Hudds don't look to be short of halves to be fair, so you do wonder just where he's going to fit in. Amateurish from Stone though - there is a vast difference between firing them up by saying he expects to see some imporvement and literally telling them they are a waste of space [cap, that is...]

From what I heard, Hudds were looking to offload all 3 contracts. Thewliss signed them and Stone didn't want them, I guess that was the delay (and maybe still is with Ferguson)