Alternatively....
He broke club rules by being where he wasn't meant to be.
However, this was complicated further by the allegation that was made against him. The club had to deal with this before they could move on.
He's been given an official warning for breaking club rules, but after meeting with Hardaker today, no further action will be taken regarding the other allegation.
As such, everything is concluded and he can play.
Maybe....

Ive heard the same thing off 2 completely seperate people, one a current superleague player and the other an RL sports brand agent, and neither involve a pub, fight/argument or racism,

a lot worse,

too much of a coincidence?

Hopefully he plays then the Cas fans can have no excuses when we win

Ferres has put a message out saying the audio he was linked too, regarding the racial abuse allegedly by Hardaker, is nothing to do with him.

He's playing now. Theres texts and emails flying all over Castleford from an old dear at the club apparently

This is the biggest mystery since Dallas, who shot JR,

Eastenders, who killed Lucy,

The Simpsons, who shot Mr Burns,

Neighbours, where is Harold Bishop

I think not. I do believe that one of the two things I was talking about was the pub incident and racism thing though, but that’s an ongoing thing at the minute as I understand, and they’re covering the main incident with this ‘breach of club rules’ thing at the minute until this is announced, as it’s still a truth, and club rules were breached by him being somewhere the players were prohibited going a while ago because of another players continuous incidents in that area.

Then your statement is... "Due to a breach of club rules and a serious allegation made against Zak, we are conducting an internal investigation. Due to the nature of the allegation Zak will not be considered for first team action until the investigation is complete. When that investigation is complete we will consider a range of outcomes and as Zak denies said allegations we reserve the right to reinstate him to first team action as and when we see fit.

Because of the ongoing nature of the investigation we will make no further comment until its completion. "

Whats the benefit of throwing him under the bus for the last couple of days and allowing speculation to get out of control?

Fair enough.

We need our forwards to be on top. It's the quick ptb that Cas run their set moves off to put their winger on the outside that have killed us against them for me.

I think it'll be close either way

There is nobody within Castleford with the literary skills to write anywhere near that level of articulacy.

We need to win the battle up front - which we showed last week against Hull that we can do.

And we need to close down Gale relentlessly towards the end of sets, which we've showed all year that we can't do.

Just heard that Lynch is out

I'm not sure he was ever in.

Giddy as a kipper, C'mon Rhinos

Bit gutted for Andy Lynch not to make the final. He's been a better than average SL forward for many many years and if not for JP and his ilk, would have gained more international caps than he has.