How do Aston Villa still exist when they have bigger neighbours in Birmingham and Wolves? By being a success and remaining in the top flight.

The club is slowly growing. The next generation of Cas fans will be the kids of current ones hopefully plus others that are attracted. You never stop being a Cas fan once you start. Could you imagine the horror if your kid came home one day and annouced "I support Leeds". They would be straight to the nearest child psychiatrist.

They were at one stage, and Arsenal have built that. They have built their identity as the 'North London Club'

So why can't Cas do the same as the 'East West Yorkshire' club?

The same reason as they wouldnt identify themselves as Vietnamese.

this makes absolutely no sense. I've read it a few times and cant decipher what you are trying to say!


Cas isnt in Cas, That would be mental. Cas is Cas. Which is in Wakefield.

If they are prepared to go to a different city in a different county to share a stadium. Why not stay in their own city, and share a stadium.
Yes, ok. I understand that they are targetting people in other areas not called Cas to come and support Cas. I am asking why if they expect other people would come from other areas to watch a team from a different town play and identify with it. They wouldnt accept people would do the same for a merged club.

Do people identify themselves as being from East West Yorkshire?

I know if you speak to a lot of people in London they will happily say they are from North London, or Sarf Landan etc.....

I've never heard anyone describe themselves as being from East West Yorkshire

I'm not sure why Cas are mentioned in this thread. Wakey may be in trouble, go debate that point. Castleford Tigers RLFC are in no trouble what so ever. Our stadium is on track, our club is growing, our future is rosey. We are not merging with anyone, we're not ground sharing. We are building our own new stadium at Glasshoughton and we are aiming for RL success.

It isnt growing is it. We arent seeing tons of people going down to 'the coliseum' are we?

There is a lot of good Cas are doing, but if they limit themselves to such a very small area then they are going to struggle to attract the amount of people they need to, to take that next step.

oh ok, if thats the case it will definitely definitely happen.

Jolly good SmokeyTA. Glad I didn't get the usual drivel argument in reply and you actually understand.

Quite, it's ridiculous. And living in London, I know plenty of people from North London who support a different North London club - Spurs - whose fanbase it's fair to say isn't confined to the borders of Tottenham.

Point is, people identify with clubs regardless of what the name of that club is. I'm sure the vast majority of Manchester United fans around the globe have never been to Manchester. Some are probably unaware that Manchester is actually a place. Man Utd attract fans because of their success. With the increased opportunities afforded to Cas at a new ground, there's no reason they can't become successful on the field as well as off it, and no reason why their fanbase cannot have a reach outside of the five towns.

There already is a fanbase of fans from outside Cas Gaz, as you already know. I'm not even talking of people who have moved away from Cas like yourself. Through avenues such as Sky Sports we have attracted fans who regularly travel from places such as Stoke for example, to watch Castleford. We aim to attract more from the towns and villages surrounding Castleford and we also aim to bring fans from around the UK.

And Man Utd did an unbelievable amount of work to do that. Man Utd do a ridiculous amount of work overseas and in other areas. Massive. It was fantastic foresight. They player games all over the world, have shops all over the world, they have supporters clubs all over the world, websites in different languages and worked very very very hard to sell themselves as something other than a Manchester football club, they sell the story, the history, the busby babes and all that jazz.

Barcelona compete, they do it even more obviously, Barcelona F.C [iMés que un club[/i More Than a Club! They sell themselves as the Catalan Giants, who dont just win they do it in style with a Catalan flair. They position themselves as the apposite of those big boys with all the help, the states favourite galacticos.

That is the question i am asking you. Are Castleford doing anything to sell themselves to other areas. Are they doing anything to present themselves as something other than the RL club of a small northern town and expecting this stadium to just mean people all of a sudden decide they are from a place they have barely ever been to?

Population of Cas 40,000 ave att 7500
Population of Leeds 250,000 ave att 17000
work it out from that squire.

I shouldn't have bothered replying, because despite being faced with facts (even from some Wakey fans) you're still coming out with the same drivel. Why is it drivel? Because it's full of bias against a club who you clearly don't associate as having a face that fits with the elite and your replies prove that you're completely incapable of looking at it objectively.

Tell me, why do people from the Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and even Castleford areas watch Leeds? How do they identify with Leeds? Why wouldn't they go and watch Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield or Castleford? After all they all have teams competing at the same level.

If anything Cas should be praised for holding onto such a consistently loyal fanbase over the years despite the many challenges and times of adversity the club have faced. But maybe rlthings are looking uprl these days...

where the hell did you get a population of 250k for leeds?