I see that the whinos have been raiding our home grown junior talent again, they have now signed the Castleford Lock Lane forward Daniel Smith, a nephew of former Castleford, Wigan and Hull player Tony Smith.

He's been a part of their scholarship scheme for a while now so it doesn't make it too much of a surprise to be honest, but why are our best up-coming junior players still allowed to slip through our net

Surely junior players from this area must be aware of the progress made by current first team players like westy,shenny,huby and owen to realise that you dont have to go and play academy level at leeds to suceed and move upto SL?

This close season has been full of Cas announcing the signings of juniors. If we'venot signed Casper's nephew, I'd guess it's because we didn't want to?

I used to live next door to him, i remember him as a baby
feel old now

but juniors also look at people like burrow, mcguire, sinfield, smith, hall, bailey, diskin, jjb, ablett, watkins, gibson, jones-bishop etc and realise they can come play for Leeds, develop, play SL and win things

in fairness though, Cas seem to be doing well with their youngsters and thats the whole point of scrapping relegation so good on you

If Cas havent signed him on, Its because he isnt seen as good enough, Or he didnt want to sign for us, Either way i arent bothered - We are snapping up the majority of the very top youngsters so we cant complain

I can't believe Cas let Alex Shenton leave aswell.

I missed that.

Where has he gone ?

think you might find its the unthinkable. he didn't want to

alex shentons gone to wakey. daniel smith came through the wakefield scholarship and left in his final year to leeds. cas have just signed 3 lads from milford in leeds and are regulars at raiding wakey scholarship lads so its just swings and roundabouts i think, although this time the majority of cas signinigs are from fryston under 16s