They would. As I say, I could be convinced but it all depends on what the overall makeup of the squad is come February.

Just the pay-off from Cas to sort and he's on his way enabling Cas to bring in a new threequarter.

Rumours around are that he is off to Wakey and we are paying half his wages!!!

Really fooked off if this is true as a) think he could still do a job for us and b) if we are as skint as people say then why offer to pay half of his wage!

Plus yellow_t-shirt paying a player no longer here is lunacy since it cuts our ability to replace him adequately.

at the Min if i didnt already have my season ticket i wouldnt get one, The club is p**hed if the think paying him half his wages is good buisiness.

But the club will lie there way out of this like they did the ground sponsor episode, I finished the season on a high but since its become pants after pants lie after lie while we read on twitter of how good a time poskit and Parker are having!! nice

Presume he's only going on loan then? I know it happens quite a bit in football (Man City especially given they're paying so many of their unwanted players way over the odds) but clubs only contribute to wages whilst the player is on loan.

The suggestion that Mathers just needs to sort out a pay-off from Cas would indicate it is a permanent move and if he's getting a pay-off I fail to see why we should then be contributing to his wages going forward as well!

What have they lied about?

Eh?



I don't think Poskitt has twittered much of late since the cones were sent back.

Important part of the post underlined.

I can't understand why we would possibly want to get rid of Mathers. Terrible move by the club if it turns out to be true.

Milward has said that owen will be fullback next year, mathers would be rather expensive back up. Also didn't mathers want to leave wire because he didnt get the no1 shirt? He wants to be a first choice fb, which he knows he wont be at cas.

Never really liked Mathers the person but Mathers the player has skills no doubt about it.
I thought he played well for Cas when I saw him so apart from wanting to play Owen there (which is fair enough) I don't know why you'd get rid.
From Wakefield point of view he would go well. He's an attacking FB but also seems to organise the defence well whichw e will need with a completely new team.

And if you are paying half his wages too you must be mad.
If that deal stands for other players we'll take a couple of those young forwards off your hands too

Well telling us the leaked email about naming rights was for the new stadium and that its was an error by a junior!! Getting Casforum to take down the liableous thread when it was true.

And wasnt Poskitt only bragging about "having to go to london for the Probiz do" only last Friday, and as for Ben Parker is there something going on between him and Gary Schofield ??

They were probably reading the Wakey board where according to our resident board of experts Mathers is rubbish. I expect you will now sign Tongia (who?) who is by contrast and after only 4 games at BV the new Billy Slater.

I rate Mathers though as a Wakey fan I'm not allowed to say that and would take him over Tongia any day - so fingers crossed from me that it's true.

I rate him too, and even though I'd prefer Tongia, having Mathers would soften the blow. If it turns out to be true and we do get him, I don't believe for a minute that Cas would be paying half his wages. They'd have no reason to.

Mathers is a decent player who is versatile. Wakey need a player with his skills imo.

Its not difficult to work out. Cas want rid, he's willing to go but he's a big earner. Wakey willing to take him off their hands but not willing to pay him his full wage so Cas either give him a pay off or pay the difference in salary, otherwise no deal and they are then obliged to pay him his full wage for a player who is unlikely to play. Everyones a winner, Mathers gets new new club, Wakey get an 80K player at a reduced rate and Cas get a large chunk of wage to invest elsewhere in the squad. Simples.

Any truth in Karl Pryce to you?

The problem with that theory is that if cas say to him you arent going to be playing he isnt going to want to be sat on the sidelines and putting his career in jeopardy, he will just ask for a release which he will get.

Heard this a couple of times know.

Mathers has been getting a lot of questions asked about this on Twitter, most of which he is answering with "not for me to comment"

However, one in particular stood out, one where someone asked if him and Millward didn't get on and thats why rumours were rife about him leaving. Richie replied saying he had never even met Basil!!!

Depends on how stubborn he and the club are. By all accounts Cas need to shift part of his wage before bringing anyone else in so it would be damaging for them as well. An agreement will be reached and everyone will move on.

With regard to first paragraph, who confirmed that. No one knows the actual reasons, however, I would suspect the Casforum admin team.

As for Craig, I'm sure he did go to London. As for your third point, Garry Schofield is an ambassador/works for Wish Communications along with Ben?

Wheres Gronk! with facts when ya need him?

I am not getting this thread at all, Richie Mathers is a decent bloke, family man, attracts no recreational attention anywhere in his personal life. He is pretty durable over his career and Leeds, Wigan, Wire and actually winners medals would suggest to me that he can play the game a bit - well put it this way I would love to be as crap as he is.

If we abso HAVE to offload someone for cash to fund something major, then I accept that we do have FB options. But genuinely a number of players who can play FB, Wing, Centre would seem to me to be a good place to be in. I love that this is a bash Mathers thread and all of a sudden Goldy is now not attracting any attention at all.

I would be shocked if Mathers went, especially in the way we are talking about on here. I think this is simply the season where there is so little rugby that people make things up.