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It's true. He contacted the Cowboys about an early return. He's not happy.

It's been rumoured that Mrs Cashmere is home sick!

Wonderful news.

Let him go and NO more Aussies please.

Gutted if he ends up going.

Will we actually be able to field a team next year with all these rumoured departures...?

FFS

I was thinking the same as I seem to have missed all the signings for next year !

Can't help thinking of Hudson Smith here, plays the homesick card, gets released and signs for Bradford. Hope a lesson got learnt after that happened.

I hope its not true Ray Cashmere he is at a different level of performance to the over props at our club, HE is the standard of prop we need at superleague level look at his stats he is heads and shoulders above everyone else if he departs and we resign our current props i will question the direction the club is going in.

If the big man is home sick then fair play to him...

Ray Cashmere has in my opinion always given 100% out on the paddock for Salford City Reds and if things have not worked out whilst in our Country then so be it the Salford City Reds should release him from his contract a.s.a.p.

REMEMBER.. NO ONE PLAYER IS BIGGER THAN THE CLUB......

If he is on his toes then fair doos, he has to look after his family 1st i surpose, As long as we replace him with somebody of simular quality, SS form in the transfer market at present is very good but if he comes back with another big phil or stapo then i for one will not be very happy

If the club were to release him I'm sure they would now insist on a special clause in any release agreement. The club could stipulate that should he wish to sign for another British or European SL, NL or Rugby Union team during the period of his current contract with Salford, then a transfer fee of £100,000 - £150,000 or so applies.

Maybe the club could retain the players registration until his present contract expires and agree a loan deal to an Aussie club?

I'm sure that hard lessons have been learned from the Hudson Smith fiasco all those years back.

if his wife is homesick perhaps she could go and come back later when she has been home for a bit. Im sure other wives have done the same in the past. Please please stay

Far better to invest in UK talent - just weigh up the cost of contract, housing, family costs, travel and all the extras and you are well in excess of £100k pa. In my opinion we should look to develop good quality GB lads.

By the way - Im entitled to my opinion just as much as you are only maybe I am looking at it from a Financial point of view as well. Until we move to the new Stadium we should be operating in a totally different way.

ray cashmere is worth all that and more, he is in a different time zone to the rest of our forwards and too lose him would be a massive set us back.

obviously as the money maker in the house needs to use those massive shovel hands and start a few swinging backhands to put maud in place !!

did i not read he was staying on for the winter because they were settled and mrs c had a job over here so wasnt going back home in the close season

i'm sure at the last FR meeting he said he was now settled as his wife/girlfriend was happy here too.

Why? What's wrong with Stapo? By far and away the best prop we've got or had since Rutcho's days.

Your correct he and his wife had settled in well and they were staying in the UK over the winter period.

It could be paper talk as usual he probably has said that he would like to finish his career in the NRL after he has completed his contract at Salford City Reds.

The difference between stapo and cashmere is about 500m and 20odd ofloads, in a season that would result in a few points imo, you replace like for like to keep the standard high, stapo is a good reliable steady eddie prop what we need is another cashmere who will make yards and recycle the ball in a tackle if we are to go to the next level

What we need far more than another prop blindly offloading a la Cashmere is someone who can read the forthcoming offload and make use of them...look at Wiggin last week, Leuluai (who is still stealing a living!!

) was always on the shoulder of the forwards and they made big yards around the ruck because of it...who do we have doing this???

Until lately Myler was the player backing up the play, the problem is if he's going we need to sign a replacement to give the team this kind of attacking threat to the opposition.