Cas Tigers are interested, hope its not till end of season, l think we are going to need all the forward power we can get to make any impact on the rest of the season, especially in the cup, a favourable draw and return to form.
Patrick for me is a solid squad player,any more injuries and he will be missed if he goes

Yeah I think this year we certainly need him for depth, pack rotation and injury. Maybe not ripping it up for us but certainly going to be useful for us this year.

He seems to have come back lacking in confidence. But we need to keep him for depth-

Would be good if he could find his *super sub* form...come in and punch holes through the defence. We shall see!

Patrick is definitely a target for us for next season
He is a player that certainly add's penetration and is very difficult to handle

I certainly hope he is at Cas next season

so do i

The word is, gone to Cas for the remainder of the season.

I wonder who said that he was waste of time at the beginning of the season. I don't think he wanted to come back from Wigan but we would not let him go as he was on contract and I am not convinced Wigan wanted him anyway.

Me too.

Does this mean we are taking a chance on tickle?

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Must be a forward coming in, surely.

Nah- Lawrence can play 80 at 13, so can hinchy. Wardle and taai can play longer minutes and Roberts is coming on nicely. I think it's more a case he will be moving on next season anyway and just wants to play to give him s chance of s contract next year.
Hope we leave tickle well alone

i agree why keep a player who doesn't want to be at the club and is moving on next season anyway ??? a move in the right direction for a change mr anderson

Because he is a solid back up player. Yeah he's not been great, but our thin squad has already been exposed. I'd hope we have someone in line to fill a spot. Unless Mikey Wood is ready to step up

Sad to see Patrick go, he clearly was not happy to be back.
Tickle on a short term contract like Foster, surely NOT.
Are we that Shint ?

because he doesnt want to be here ? hardly going to put %110 in ? plus who would want to be a solid back up player ? use your brain

You're right. Anyone seen my brain?!

Given the fact we keep loaning in poor players, I thought it would be worth retaining one who is playing for a super league contract somewhere in SL next year.

Don't get me wrong he hasn't been tearing up any trees this year, but I'd hope we have a replacement lined up, otherwise we are even thinner.

Disappointed to see him go. Hasn't fulfilled true potential. Could be really explosive when running right lines and hitting gap. Maybe not used to best effect by coaching staff. IMO we seem to have too much of the same in the forwards. Larne offered something different. Suppose we now need to see replacement plan before judging.

Hasn't fulfilled his potential? Sounds like the report of a lazy schoolchild! If he's not fulfilling his potential by running lines and hitting gaps here and at Wigan it's possibly not the coaching that's at fault.....

great move by the giants, he was doomed ever since he went to wigan on loan, luckily we got the better deal there with hughes coming the other way.

wigan didnt want him and he has been rubbish since 2013, wigan and giants could not halt his slide in performances...maybe cas can get him back to 2013 form.

glad to see the back of him and free's up plenty of space in the cap for us to make a move now for another player if one comes available ..we couldnt do that with brierley just taking a chunk.

props - crabtree, rapira, johnson, mason.... smith (next season) the young props really stepped up now.

2nd row - lawrence, wardle, taai, roberts, mikey wood...would not drop any of those to accomodate patrick.

if injuries hit again though we don need to use the patrick money

oh and did patrick really have a virus last week hmmm

Yes he was probably sick of being back at Giants. What about all the quotes from Anderson at the start of the season praising him and how the move to Wigan had done him good. All I say is Why are some on here so bitter and nasty when a Player leaves Giants. Good luck to them it's not the players who offer Contracts. Are you saying Thewlis always gets it right, well from his statement He makes all the decisions on players not Anderson.

Good luck and all the best to Larne, hope it works out for him, sad to see him go, our loss is Castleford's gain.
No doubt he'll soon be back to his best under Powell's coaching at Cas.

Didn't develop with us. Didn't develop at Wigan
Hope he can kick on at Cas

On his day he can be world class

In the build up tonight's game, Carney and Clarke talking about Patrick's departure and Carney mentions "could it be anything with things being mentioned about George rose coming to super league!" Brushed over by Clarke!

Then bill says that the Giants are in the market and hunting overseas with something likely to be happening sooner rather than later!