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Quote: roughyedspud "i think the point is teams like widnes,leigh & halifax busted a gut to meet the criteria and spent millions in the process........where as the likes of wakefield & castleford have done bugger all but got in

How have Cas done nothing

Finished bottom in the season before franchises were given out , but are now 7th in league and in semi final of challenge cup . We are solvent and have used our three year tenure to continue to develop our youth , marketing and community set up . We have obtained and been granted FPP for a new stadium , which when WR is sold WE will pay for as we actually own our ground , but will not be rushed into accepting a lower price than it is potentially worth by selling to a housing company at a much deflated value , but instead we choose , quite openly , to wait and receive its true value and sell to a supermarket chain instead .
Indeed , the Castleford Tigers should be seen as the exact reason why franchising works . We were continually up and down between SL and Championship ( National league at the time ) under the P & R set up , unable to get a footing in the SL as , by the time the winner of the NLGF was determined , SL regular season had long finished and any decent players from the relegated SL club had already been snapped up , meaning that we were the weakest team when promoted , hence all too often were relegated again , but because we had money from SL , we were able to stay full time and , were hence far superior to the teams in NL , and so we came back up again , to go down again and so on and so on . How can this be the way forward . If P and R were re introduced Fax would still be no where near SL for these very reasons as when the SL team was relegated they would stay full time and be in a much more advantageous position than NL and would come straight back up .
I do understand your frustration , but ATEOTD you were not considered good enough to take the place of Wakey , or whichever other club was deemed to have the 13th best application . It isn't just about a stadium . Indeed , how can you say we have done nowt ( meaning basically no new stadium ) and use this as an argument , when you want P & R , which wouldn't involve any stadium criteria . It seems very contadictory to me , but maybe I have just got the wrong end of the stick