expected to be announced today to you on a long term deal, a bolt out of the blue for us Cas fans, a bit like daryl Clark

. You have a good one here lads, look after him and thank us by beating Saints on Friday please.

Well that's a surprise to us too, no one had the slightest idea

about time it got announced, might be tied in with the season ticket info too

As it been announced, cant see owt.

tomorrow i think

cheers.

Confirmed. Great player, great pro. Will do well for you lot and will be your main prop. Better then crabtree in my opinion. Sad to see him leave.

For me the best all around prop in the league along with Chris Hill, and hitting his peak at 28. Great signing for us. Should be good up front next year if Mullally and Johnson can kick on too.

Great signing brings a lot of agrression and is great at offloading keeping the ball alive. Him and Crabtree should work well together. Just looking at their stats for the season and they are very different players.

tackles misses runs metres average gain tackle bust offloads
Huby 544 29 332 2154 6.49 33 36

Crabtree 665 23 374 2636 7.05 69 16

should complement what we have quite nicely. I suspect that young learmonth will be one to watch if he gets his chance next year too.

So why have we signed Huby when Eorl's not worth his place???

good signing, getting him in his prime and looks like a replacement for crabtree when he leaves/retires.. still got another season with us at least so shall look forward too them both being on the field!

huby reminds me abit of danny sculthorpe in the way he plays with the offloads and passing he does, anderson seems to think he will compliment our team well

looking at the stats between huby and crabtree... crabtree wins hands down apart from the passing/offloading side of hubys game.

Crabtree a stats are amongst the best in Super League, arguably THE best

Anyone who says he isn't a world class prop should go watch rugby Union and give up understanding RL

Not if you take into account the number of games they have played.

i dont have number of games to hand but i am sure it is very similar. He has not only made more metres in total he is averaging more with every carry.
I think Crabtree is just about the best prop in SL. Maybe the only one who i rate higher is Chris Hill.

Eorl (in 26 games)

374 carries (14.4)
6 clean breaks (0.23)
16 offloads (0.62)
2636 meters (101)
69 tackle busts (2.65)
655 tackles (25)
23 missed tackles (0.8icon_cool.gif

Huby (in 22 games)

332 carries (15.1)
4 clean breaks (0.1icon_cool.gif
36 offloads (1.64)
2154 meters (97.9)
33 tackle busts (1.5)
544 tackles (24.7)
29 missed tackles (1.32)

like i say crabtree wins hands down in most areas! cracker of a player but still some dont see it

but they are the usually the same ones who dont see what lawrence brings to the team either.

anyway be good to see them both in the same team next season.

Off loads are the biggest thing I think he'll bring us and something we often lack, certainly in the frequency he shows in those stats anyway.

Yes soul, Fueys offload to Ukuma was first class but it seems not enough players follow up for these half breaks and passes.

wonder if he will make the SL dream team today...

old boy kev brown has, well done to him been ripping it up this year