Re: STAR signing announced : Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:54 am  

bren2k wrote:

I think that's the point though - having been a selling club for donkey's years, we know full well that when a wealthy club comes in with an offer, even for key personnel, the club are hard pressed to turn it down. Broughy is a prime example - he was the stand-out SH in SL, our absolute best player and won us many matches; despite that, Shudds were able to spirit him away because we needed the brass.

I don't know if Cas are in that position or not and weirdly, I find myself hoping that none of the big fish are able to make RW an offer he can't refuse; the only club I'd like to see him go to is WTW, and that's never going to happen - in financial terms, our new owner has got us off the life support machine, but we're a long way from being fully rehabilitated.

What do you think about the notion that AG invested in WTW thinking that you were going to be a Championship club and got caught out by the late demise of the Crusaders and is now probably out of his depth in SL?

Re: STAR signing announced : Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:28 pm  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I don't think you'd turn down a £200,000 offer for him as I don't believe your finances would allow you to. Didn't the Joe Westerman money go towards the the new stadium? If so, that doesn't seem like a club that is flush with cash.

The Westerman helped pay for planning permission for the new stadium instead of putting the burden on the club but it wasn't the MAIN factor in selling. We offered him a new contract, he turned it down so as someone above has put, to avoid losing him for zilch (as that proved his intention to move on anyway) we accepted an offer from Hull for £175k, I believe.

Re: STAR signing announced : Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:01 am  

Big Man wrote:

What do you think about the notion that AG invested in WTW thinking that you were going to be a Championship club and got caught out by the late demise of the Crusaders and is now probably out of his depth in SL?

I think it's nonsense; if that were the case, why bother producing such a good franchise application?

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:04 am  

bren2k wrote:

I think that's the point though - having been a selling club for donkey's years, we know full well that when a wealthy club comes in with an offer, even for key personnel, the club are hard pressed to turn it down. Broughy is a prime example - he was the stand-out SH in SL, our absolute best player and won us many matches; despite that, Shudds were able to spirit him away because we needed the brass.

I don't know if Cas are in that position or not and weirdly, I find myself hoping that none of the big fish are able to make RW an offer he can't refuse; the only club I'd like to see him go to is WTW, and that's never going to happen - in financial terms, our new owner has got us off the life support machine, but we're a long way from being fully rehabilitated.

Agree with your point so was quite surprised that Cas turned down a very large offer from Leeds (well in excess of the £200k suggested above) for Chase.

Can only presume the board realised that the amount they made on the sale may be lost through fans voting with their feet and not buying season tickets...

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:51 am  

Some people just don't get it! Chase loves it at Cas and doesn't want to go anywhere.

[tb]

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:32 pm  

Meanwhile, @Rangichase6 has joined the Cas Twitterati. First three tweets:

"Glad to have got the future sorted and to be staying at Cas. Thanks for all your messages. Hopefully I will be here for more than 4 years!"


"Had silly money offers from Leeds and Warrington but i love Cas. #castillidie"

and

"its my home now. Dont want to be anywhere else"

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:51 pm  

tb wrote:

Meanwhile, @Rangichase6 has joined the Cas Twitterati. First three tweets:

"Glad to have got the future sorted and to be staying at Cas. Thanks for all your messages. Hopefully I will be here for more than 4 years!"


"Had silly money offers from Leeds and Warrington but i love Cas. #castillidie"

and

"its my home now. Dont want to be anywhere else"

Nice sign of a fake account there!

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:18 pm  

Or it could really be him and he's shown loyalty to the club?

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:27 pm  

Fully wrote:

Or it could really be him and he's shown loyalty to the club?

Potentially but would be wrong to disclose offers from other clubs and metion 'silly money' can show love / loyalty without that (at least that direct).

[tb]

Re: STAR signing announced : Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:31 pm  

J20 wrote:

Nice sign of a fake account there!

I'll take @poskittc 's word that @RangiChase6 is legitimate, seeing as Craig's taking Rangi over to Manchester for the Man of Steel awards …