I don't think its just the money in Cas Tigers case though. When you live and work in Castleford (like Joe Westerman and Joe Arundel before their move to Hull FC) you are in a fish-bowl environment. Its a small town at the end of the day and it benefits some players to move out of that confine.

Well pleased with this

Not bad for a selling club

Fantastic signing, better than the traitor thats gone to hull as will be proved next season. Watch that traitor drop ball in the craven park derby he will wish hed gone back to aussie.

Promising young player. Certainly a better FB option than hall

As it stands i think Mcdonell is a better player than Eden, the only area that Eden is better is his running in open play, he is one of the best in SL at that.

However Eden has much more potential IMO, could turn out to be an international FB, if he improves in a couple of areas.

He is also British, younger and I would guess cheaper than Mcdonell (although you have paid a fee for him).

I would just about prefer Eden to Mcdonnell for those reasons, but am quite happy with Mcdonnell as it stands.

www.giantsrl.com/news/article/19 ... rom-giants READ THE BOTTOM PARAGRAPH At the end of 2014 Giants can re call Eden if we want!

www.giantsrl.com/news/article/19 ... rom-giants READ THE BOTTOM PARAGRAPH At the end of 2014 Giants can re call Eden if we want!

Just read that, really don't understand this, so can Hudds just take him back?

Would they have to pay the fee back, what if Eden didn't want to leave Rovers, seems a very unclear and strange clause?

Believe it's similar to the Amor situation but KR have paid the fee to have him basically on loan for 2 years where we can't re call him in these 2 years

“The proposal from Hull KR clearly is in Greg’s best interests and we have included a clause giving us the option for Greg to return to the Giants at the end of the 2014 season. He thus moves on with our very best wishes. We will naturally follow his progress with great interest and are confident that this is the right arrangement for ourselves, Hull KR and most importantly Greg himself.”

A lot of clubs include an option to have the first refusal if a player decides to move on

Then surely he is out of contract at that time with Shudds and can do as he pleases, also bearing in mind Shudds reported he had signed for us for 4 years while we have said three years it all smacks of appeasing the fans for letting him go in the first place.

At the minute, yes.

he signed a 3 year extension last year so he had 3 years from this season....

Read that article again.
For a start they have the length of the contact at HKR wrong.
Me thinks someone is trying to appease an annoyed set of Hudds fans.

Agree with this, hopefully he can cut the errors out and well have a good little fb on the books.

I love to see good British talents given a go to show their talents, if Ben Barba was English he'd have spent last season in reserves whilst a average Ozzie played, but in what world does Eden have more potential than Hardaker?

In fact don't bother, lifes too short.