It's a tough job and I know some people have said similar about me so can't comment on that but you have always been fair and honest on here so you are more than welcome.

Better get back on track now before someone tells me I've derailed the thread.

A friend of mine says there are already rumours of Cas bringing someone in to replace.

He has tbf, a bit of a wum on VT though.

Let's face it even without Gale the worst Cas would do would finish 8th, they'd have to be (as would any team) be retry atrocious to finish below Salford and London.

Saying that, seen some of their fans saying there down to bare bones halfback wise for the start of the season.

That's the point, attrition is a killer in RL so you need to start at full strength. Losing Gale alone won't knock them out though it still a big loss but then what happens if they pick up another which tends to be how these things go. I honestly am amazed that most fans aren't more positive about what is a big loss for a team we are surely hoping to challenge this season.

Been reading they are going to play the game and deregister him for the year and get someone in. Not sure if that is possible or not as he’s on a playing contract but reported by one of the journalists on Twitter.

He is a huge loss to them for a whole season. Difficult to see where a quality replacement is going to come in and on a year’s deal at this stage in proceedings. Trueman showed his worth for them last year and is deserving of a chance to step up, whether they can risk that for a whole year though?

Without wishing to be nasty – this must be seen a bonus for those planning on challenging for the play offs this year, us included.

At last a bit of sense - they have been unlucky in that they have missed the last player available who was Drinkwater and I assume they would need to get rid of a quota player for that - that leaves British players and I don't see many of them available.

Not a case of us gloating it's bad luck for them and it could just as easily happen to us but to down play it is utterly daft, it's a bad one for Cas.

They have 5 overseas players, how many are you allowed as I always forget what the allowance is?

Cas will cope without Gale but, they are a far better side when Gale is playing and is in decent form.
He could be the difference between top 4 and not or, a home semi final or not, a huge loss.
It may even ope the door for a new side to make the semi finals

Exactly, it's only a 'may' but I'll take it.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say over the course of the full season they’ll be around 4/5 games where his goal kicking and drop goals would make the difference between a win and loss. That’s 8/10 points less and that could be costly for a playoff spot.

Yup, most teams that finish in the top 5 will have benefited from the misfortunes of others at some point - that's how it is.

If they have a quota spot they may take a punt like they did with QLT and sign a back up half. Wasn’t Godinet over here training with shudds but they said not interested in signing.