Because he's contracted to us!

Let him go back to you, and then you will have to pay ALL of his wages. That is why Wakey are in the driving seat. We could just say "back to you", and in which case, you've got a player you don't want eating up money you don't have, and a big space on the cap. Or we get him on our terms.

Oh yeah I'm sure he can't wait to get back playing in front of the fans who abused him earlier this year, rejoin a club he was told he wasn't good enough for, who then promptly finish joint bottom whilst he plays playoff football!

Oh the glory, one more game in a season and playing in more losing games than winning ones.

Showed us

The facts remain.

OK so you must be right because you can half remember something somebody told you, i am clearly wrong as you pointed out.


The facts remain if you want him back, have him back, however two people don't want that to happen.
Posturing from you won't make the slightest bit of difference and most casites that come on here have certainly made their feelings clear on Mathers during the course of this season. As ever you are in a minority of one!!
Wether you can even afford him based on reports of some senior players having to defer their wages is another point entirely, i would argue.

So was Brett Ferres when you signed him from us at the start of the 2009 season. We never received a transfer fee, the reason...we needed to free up money on our limited budget to strengthen elsewhere. See the similarities? This case is even clearer cut. Thanks to Millwards man management you have a contacted player taking a decent wage of a limited budget. You need to get rid, we hold all the Ace cards in the negotiation, I can't see Glover been stupid enough to pay a fee in these circumstances.

Id like to see him remain at Cas but really cant see it happening.

Basil obviously doesn't rate the bloke and 'something' has happened at some point between player and coach.

So we have a back line of Owen, inured Aussie, Webster, Shenton, Dixon/Tansey or if rumours are true Foster?

I can't imagine Wakefield paying any fee - particularly given that we have Lee Smith and Ben Cockayne readily available to occupy the fb berth if an agreement can't be reached.

Equally, I can't imagine Cas fighting to keep hold of a player who the Head Coach valued so little that he was prepared to ship him out to your nearest rival but continue to pay 40% of his salary.

I imagine the player will be released from his contract and will become a free agent; at that point, we may or may not sign him, depending on what Agar's plans look like for next season.

What a silly argument - it's just business!

I imagine Mathers is happy at Wakefield so I would think if he had the choice he'd stay at your club.

Facts
1. Mathers is not the worst fullback in the league
2. Wakefield signed Mathers cut priced off us as he wasn't in basils plans this year
3. The season is now over Mathers is our player again
4. Some other SL clubs don't have as good as Mathers at fb
5. If wakey don't want to offer what we say, they can do a running jump and we can wait for a club who doesn't have a better fb to make an offer - any offer
6. If no club does that, it still means wakey have no god given right to sign him
7. Winning 7 games in a row the back end of a season does not all of a sudden make WTW as attractive a proposition as Melbourne



After saying all the above u still believe he will be at WTW next year as borg are a perfect match. Both feel they are far better than they are and have far too much arrogance about themselves when they really have no need to.

HTH