I'm not sure how long Gaskell is out, or even what he did?

He broke his thumb. 6 weeks was estimated at the time I think.

nope - he picked up a non season ending injury in June was available in August - but didnt play again. He never took to the field in a giants shirt for the rest of the year. He has anxiety issues and has been known to pull out of games at the last minute. perhaps this was a similar issue.

Yeah right









There are some on here who would believe that, you probably believe it yourself. 211 games suggest he gets over it

You could have told us that before we signed him most of the fans at Wakefield have anxiety issues watching them play .,but there again if he gets a anxiety issue and does not play if he is in the North stand he should feel right at home

If its true - and not to try and joke about anxiety in general....
He'll fit in well then....

Well, she couldn't because it's never been mentioned by anyone until today when it was made up.

I'm not diminishing anxiety at all as its serious but if we are talking about anxiety that would stop him playing rugby, you'd think it would have affected his other 200+ games.
I'm calling this out as made up smelly stuff.

We're not all gullible as you

Keith Smith used to suffer from.
Not wanting to get on the pitch at the start and again at half time.
Don't think anxiety was talked about back then but apparently Keith used to be a nervous wreck.

Everyone gets it to varying degrees but if you can play RL 200 times in front of thousands of people you can live with it. Lots of actors and players etc often puke up before a performance but they still do it because the reward outdoes the pain. The more they puke the more they are up for the game and the better they often are.

There are exceptions, I shouldn't think Paul Gascoigne was ever nervous, to daft, or Eric Cantona, supremely arrogant and self-confident but most do.

I myself struggle in front of anyone who isn't family or friends and even then......

It`s not made up Poptart, Lee suffers big time with anxiety and panic attacks, not just rugby related, in day to day life so that quite obviously will and has had some effect on his work no doubt. His problems were well documented a few years back when he had to be rested for a period of time after pulling out of a game with what he thought was a heart attack which turned out to be a panic attack.

Anxiety issues can obviously be triggered at any stage in life, he had already played around 150 games by the time he started having the anxiety issues so the 200+ games argument doesn`t really mean that much in that context.

It`s obviously something that needs to be managed from a player welfare perspective and from what I hear as a club we offer great support to players in this, but FWIW I think Lee will go really well for us.