Lee Gaskell has signed for Huddersfield and will be playing at centre next year

Glad its sorted now lets all move on

While I'd take what MarioRugby says with a pinch of salt I heard he was off to Hudders. Not sure about him playing centre.

If it really is definite then, despite his saying he'll be back before he eights, I can see little point in playing him again, unless we get even more injuries, whether in the middle or bottom eights. He's been out quite a while now and by the time he re-gains match fitness the season will be over.

If, as seems most likely, it's the bottome eights then we'd be better off giving the juniors some game time in what are basically friendlies. The experience will do them good for next year and their future careers.

Has anyone ever watched Lee Gaskell play and though to themselves 'he'd make a good centre, that lad'?

I think people might just be linking this with Wardle's departure. In reality I think he'll probably used more as Connor's replacement ie a utility back, or maybe Brough's replacement if he leaves.

But centre? No.

I'm not sure he's good enough to be a centre in the Championship.

Hopefully we'll get to find out.

If it doesn't work out, maybe he could be a Peter Crouch impersonator

Him playing centre was Anderson's master plan after seeing him play their during their time together at Saints that idea may have changed now with a new coach arriving.

Similar is said in this month's RLW on page 16, so either the OP has just got round to reading their copy, or the OP is the secret squirrel who writes the page where few from many bits are true then I don't really care cos Gaskell was gone regardless.

Don't understand why Huddersfield need Gaskell and Brierley to be honest? Both play similar roles and if neither are going to play in the halves then I'm not sure how it will work. Don't believe the Gaskell at centre statement for a minute. Who's made that decision? The coach?

Gaskell is a fool for choosing Huddersfield over Hull just because there's a bit more money from the Giants.

What if the new coach doesn't rate him? What if the new coach brings in his own people? Gaskell could find himself on the outside pretty quickly.

Sounds like an agent who is maybe more concerned for his 'cut' than the well being of the player? Either way, he's gone, so we all move on now...

Indeed, was just coming to write the same thing. I really like RLW, but that page is a load of drivel and makes Nosey Parker look accurate. At least Nosey Parker reads the local papers for his scoops.

The RLW insider info is either wildly off the mark, or common knowledge by the time it gets to print. For example other Bulls rumours this season include Gaskell going to Leigh and playing for them this year, Gaskell has already signed for Leigh for next year, and now Gaskell for Huddersfield next year playing centre. Presume the July issue has Gaskell to replace Corbyn as Labour leader . On the flip side, the same page has reported open secret Leon Pryce to us next year as an exclusive at least twice.

Who is this Lee Gaskell? I don't recall seeing him...

Ask the club physio.

So I know two members were discussing it earlier but just what percentage of games has Gaskell played in the last two seasons?

Games played in 2015 - 19 of 34 games = 56%
Games played in 2016 - 11 of 24 games = 46%

Is there any other team in this league that has played half of their games without their stand out player?

He's not he's a realist. Hull are top of the league the Giants are crap and getting worse.

He clearly wants to play first team football and he won't get that at Hull.

He also has a family and wants to be closer to home and family. Travelling to Hull every day from Lancs would be a terrible journey. Huddersfield are half an hour closer so makes sense.

Gaskell's physio is near Huddersfield, and there's a handy Premier Inn round the corner with very keen long-term room rates, and no steps to negotiate

I know this is going to sound bitter but...

Does anybody care? As good as he is, we've been playing without him that long that I won't notice he's gone.

If you'd asked me this at the same time last season, I would have said I was gutted at the thought of him leaving.

But right here, right now? Not all that bothered.

Part of me still wishes he was staying as he's a top quality player. His form at the beginning of the season was down to our abysmal recruiting. FFS he had Danny Addy and Richie Mathers as his creative 7 & 1. Teams just set about 3 players on him and marked him out of the game.

If we had Chisholm & Moss partnering him at the beginning of the season we would have seen a different Lee Gaskell.

I don't disagree with that. And I wouldn't be surprised to see him come back from injury now, play alongside those two and totally destroy Oldham, Swinton etc.

But whilst we know what a great player he is, he didn't look that bothered this season. I know it's probably because the players around him weren't good enough and he was no doubt tired of trying to do it all himself. But that's not an excuse for me. If he still looked like he was doing his absolute best to try and make something happen, even with it all against him, it would be different. But instead it looked to me like he'd given up, and I'm not that fussed about keeping people that do that, regardless of ability.

I disagree. Gaskell has always been one of those players who doesn't look as if he's doing much. Until he does it. It seems to be a trait in many half-decent players, think of people like John Woods or Leon Pryce. I agree he hasn't set the pitch alight when he has played, but frankly the way we have gone about it this year we may as well not have been playing him anyway. He must have had the most frustrating year of his life

It will be interesting to see how he goes again in SL. It will be his third team and two let him go - but he was young! I don't really feel that he has played for us fully and am sure Smith will replace him with someone who will play more time...................er, wait a minute, we might be singing Leon...........OH damn!