But this could be our best chance of achieving something this year.

IF KEN reads this speculate to accumulate on Gaskell and you might win a trophy this year which will bring the fans back .

IF it does not work he can always sell Brough next season.

Doesn't take much to get on the negative vibe does it?

Maybe NB will loan us Gaskell for the rest of the season- it's the kind of deal he's stupid enough to agree to.

The Gaskell jury is definately out on the Saints board about 50/50 whether they rate him or not, l think its best for Ken to hang on to the spare cash, and see if anything else developes, we surely carn,t be so desperate, as to splash cash on a relatively youngster , we have two in the squad, anyway it will be up to Baloo.

Gaskell not in squad this weekend - even given the injury to roby- looks like Gaskell is the new Lunt!!!
His agents phone should be red hot!

Think Foster is a better comparison as he too is out of contract at the end of the season as Foster was when he fell out of favour there last season.

Im happy with our Applecart. Dont upset either of us.

what about danny tickle?

then again no we may fall asleep with his goal kicks taking so long

I seem to remember some (including me) saying this when we were trying to sign Brough - wouldnt be without him now!

If it lead to believe if agents phone been red hot for weeks but saints won't allow to leave even on loan

If Brough is not 100% then does that make some of our naysayers change their mind about us needing Gaskell

But Gaskell isnt available. Why not have a thread about every player that isnt available.

As has been said, the Hull match showed we have very few season tickets sold - who is going to pay the wages?

LOD!

give that young lad we just gave a contract too a chance, wouldnt get a complaint from me if we did.

Fanbase is e, season ticket sales poor, the LOD money has gone already to pay wages expenses etc so won't be used to buy anyone else.

Need to start producing our own youngsters and develop them all the way thru to the Giants 1st team, only way we will compete unless we won something and all the glory hunters came flooding back.

So spend the LOD wage on more marketing to get more fans through the turnstyles and then next season we'll have no problems signing SBW.

as far as i am aware the club has no money available for new signings? loans or otherwise.unless we offload some of high earners then i cant see it changing anytime soon.

The club ought to concentrate on getting that section of the the hardcore fan base back that it has alienated over the last couple of seasons before fretting about getting some glory hunters on board. What you say is right though FP re: youth development & winning a pot.

Not sure even winning a pot will have the desired effect anymore :-0(

Back in the 60's and before this you couldn't move up Stains road for folks going to the matches, Leeds have ruined RL and proved the league means jack all nowadays so why bother with a season ticket?

Time to reward the league winners more, make the Challenge Cup games closer together and if need be get shut of the GF and playoffs and have a top 4 play off against the NRL top 4 if so desired.

To have a club finishing 5th as champions is ridiculous

As for the Giants we need to get some of these youngsters coming thru fast and forget anymore overseas signings.

Lack of fans will force us to do this and ww could be the 1st all British SL club

I've always maintained and will continue to do so, that our fan base is never going to increase until it dawns on the wendyball fans that they are supporting an overrated and over hyped spectacle.

But as long as the likes of Rooney are glorified by the media it will never happen. ---- Sad but true!

even if we win a cup i dont think it will make a massive difference to our crowds...

warrington have won 3 challenge cups in recent times and its prob put 1500-2000 on their crowds... and they dont have a football team.

just have to go with what we have got 5-7k depending if its on sky on a fri/sat/sun etc etc take your pick

If we ever do win something and it means we get back those from last year who came due to cheap tickets, back to around 7000 and an extra 2000 glory hunters on top then that's a healthy 9000, that would be great!

i honestly can't see what more we can do to get the disinterested people of huddersfield behind us!
yes,winning a trophy or 2 would help but it seems to me the people of huddersfield will not support the towns number 1 sports team whatever happens.
in fact most people in huddersfield probably aren't aware we exist!

the diffrence between going to watch a football match and going to watch a rugby match is the atmospher. Rugby is a better game to watch, but the football has the better atmosphere.
I went to the Portsmouth football match yesterday (thats where i live now) and the atmosphere was incredible, and thats for a league 1 team in administration and doomed to go down.
The only time we ever got an atmosphere like that at the giants was when we were not such a big team and were beating the likes of saints and leeds at home 5 seasons ago or so. (it may have been better atmosphere many moons ago when we played at fartown but i dont remember that far back)
Get the atmosphere back and you'll get the fans back, and those that are complaining about not enough fans turning up can be the ones that help to get a better atmosphere at the games.

don't think atmosphere is anything to do with it to be honest,the atmosphere at town games isn't all that. apart from a few hundred youths with a drum the stadium is very quiet,i have been to 2 derby games there this year and the atmosphere was poor.
the atmosphere at our games is awful i agree but its no worse than town games when there is usually double the crowd we get.