Totally agree

Sales over. A deal gap been done according to James Elston. Press conference being held right now.

Sale completed, Wakefield sign Greg johnson and Josh Griffin from Huddersfield, also hearing that they could be having Kyle Amor going their way also.

I was hoping to get a bargain !! like that big inflatable cat they had advertised at £49.99 or a set of corner flags at £20 !!

I had an eye on one of the flats..........................

No thats not the best that cas are aiming for, cas are aiming to grow as a club and doing so. If crusaders were doing as well as castleford in youth development and commercial development you would be shouting it from the roof tops. Success doesnt happen overnight it takes time to build and alot of hard work, that is what cas are aiming for sustainable growth and improvment, which is what the rfl has asked us to do.

Leeds and hull turn a profit, but there was a time they didnt and it took investment from big money men to make them turn a profit, if you have enough money you can make a club profitable, by getting better players in and spending more on marketing, which leads to more fans and more sponsorship.

Of course its not the aim of cas to develop players to see them picked off, that would be absurd, not every club can keep its players for ever. Every club in sl loses home grown players they would prefer to keep. Cas made the decision to concentrate on youth development in 2004, it has taken time for players to come through, some have stayed, some have left and more talented youngsters are coming through all the time. In the last 3 seasons we have lost boyle, shenton and westerman, huby and owen have stayed and holmes, arundel, thompson, milner, davies and walker have come through, with orr returning.

Not if you lose a far greater number of castleford fans.

I enjoy watching castleford tigers rlfc, and spend alot of money doing so, i wouldnt spend my money to watch say huddersfield as there not my team, any merged club would not be my team either, so would be as attractive to me as supporting huddersfield. But you want a team for the wakefield district, any team representing wakefield, represents wakefield not castleford, despite the administrative borders of the council no one from the 5 towns feels any affinity towards wakefield, this is what you struggle to grasp and the reason any merger would be a disaster. The people of castleford feel the same way about supporting a wakefield team as wigan fans feel about supporting a st helens team and bradford fans feel about supporting a leeds team.

I wouldnt give up on rugby, if cas didnt exist i would support lock lane, as the being able to support a club i identify with is far more important than the league they play in.

If you really feel that the people of castleford would ever support a wakefield team its pointless trying to explain it to you as you lack even the most basic understanding of the social and sporting attitudes of the area.

What you seem to be confusing is having a team representing Wakefield and a team for the whole of Wakefield. Like it or not Wakefield is the place Castleford is in, Castleford attract people from Wakefield, you might wish to get bogged down in petty parochialism but it really isnt relevant. You dont need to identify with the city of Wakefield to identify with a team which represents the whole of Wakefield.

The city of Wakefield IS Wakefield, Castleford is Castleford. You don't get it and never will!

For some bizarre reason he thinks sharing the council means it's the same place



Castleford is a TOWN not a SUBURB