Let's hope this latest update will put this story to bed
My son approached Benny Westwood at the golf centre driving range last week and asked him if Clark had signed
Simple answer from BW that he had signed and will be a wire next season
Now seeing as most of the wire faithful think BW is a god then let's say that this is great news and the doubters are put right

Regardless, I'll be happy when the club announces it...

Still awaiting the announcement but it seems inevitable now.

There'll be nothing until Wire or Castleford have nowt to play for

From the title of this thread I had a nightmare-ish visions of Daryl Cardiss re-signing!!!

My mum asked Bobby Wanbon if we had signed Jonathan Thurston; he said yes.

Call me sceptical if you like, but I am not sure I believe that.

I've asked a player I know a question regards transfers.

"I just play, I've got no idea who we're buying"

It seems we bought Clark by paying some bills for Castleford (utilities, tax etc) but Clark has stated he wants to remain at the club. Question is now is do we want a player who doesn't want to be here and if not do we get the money back from Castleford?

The last time we signed a player without their consent was probably Martin Gleeson?

That didn't work out too badly...

I tend to agree. He will soon settle once here, it would have been a different story if Cas had a poor season.

I haven't seen any statement from Clark saying he wants to remain at Cas. He made his decision when cas were ordinary and we trying to get to our second grand final on the bounce.

It was a vitally importent decision to make for himself for cas and for other players that would be brought in to replace him. You live by your decisions and Cas have bought Scott Moore as his replacement so he can't just turn round and say I want to stay.

I don't see weller hauraki Craig Huby jamie Ellis or Marc sneyd saying they wish they hadn't signed with their new clubs.

Do you honestly think they would make a public statement?

Castleford had no option but to cash in some of their assets as they had real financial issues twelve months ago. The Clark payment was somewhere in the £165k range.

I know the point you're making Mark, but I can't see how you can sign someone without their consent, they have to agree terms, or can just say I'm staying put.


I'm somewhat quizzical about the circumstances of the sale as well, we got told they had to sell someone to keep the woke from the door, it was Clarke or chase, and they've ended up flogging both of them. Now I know they've invested the chase money well and done well this season, but flogging both makes no sense, especially when medium to long term they're losing more players next season.

Are the board happy they've just got a club to run ? Is Wembley a big bonus for this year ? Probably.

We'll find out how good DC is today. Leeds will target him , he's Cas' key player and it's the biggest game of his career.