Owen is on 100k a year. Which is outrageous. But he is a better player than Mathers. As said, Neither may be our full back next season.

But if your paying anything for Mathers. Your crazy. He has no future at Cas so would be available on a free.

An opinion that many Cas fans arrived at only AFTER he moved to Wakey.

Funny old world isn't it?

You'll find a whole lot of Cas fans turned on him after a string of poor performances from about this time last season.

Seen Brierly play many times Gronk, he is a class act, can`t understand why he has not getting a first team chance this season. Both Cas and Wakey have a great opportunity this season to ` find out ` about some of their young players by playing them in the first team.

I agree bellycouldtackle, we both have great youngsters coming through (albeit Cas' is a little bettericon_wink.gif )

WTW are talking to Aiton about a contract extension, but as previously mentioned on this board there are clubs "circling" him. As for Sykes I believe he will go back to Bradford at the end of the season to discuss his future there.

With the way it is at Bradford at the mo,they may need all their "fringe" players to return just to make up the numbers.

Why is this even an issue to the Cas fans?
They think he is crap and don't want him
We think he is quite good and do want him
He seems to like playing at Wakefield and seems to want to stay

Seems like a good deal for everybody

I remember Cas letting Greg Eden go because you had Mathers, and look how he has come on, I watched him for years come through your ranks and then you allowed him to go to the Giants, he will be GB no1 in years to come trust me a world class player who will grace the NRL if he chooses, and now Mathers is crap, Mathers is lacking confidence that dosent making a bad player !!!

Mathers wasn't too bad before his stint in the NRL and has come back worse for it.

For years? Are you sure? Im pretty certain he came through our academy before moving to Cas

He did.