The new stadium is essential for them. without it they'll just keep pouring money into the bottomless pit that is Wheldon Road and in 2 years they'll be back where they started. They are also going to lose quite a few players at the end of the season and I don't think that the replacements they've brought in so far are anything like as good.

Its just like Southampton in football, clubs need money to survive and if it means selling one or two players then so be it. They have shown that they can compete and do you think a team like Cas could bring in the likes of players they have for next season without the money generated from the sales

We're budgeted to spend less next year than this, thanks to freeing up big contracts to Richard Owen and Lee Gilmour.

I think all this is clutching at straws. The deal quoted was put to DC 2 months ago, Wire were happy to accept the money & comp back. Cas were happy to pay it, and double his wage, and give him a get out clause to NRL for 2017. He wants exposure for the NRL and reckons his best chance is at Wire. So snubbed the deal.

Have things changed since then? I'm not sure.

Australians don't watch Cas?

Ian Henderson put it on the map

Cas have done superbly and you have to say they are doing something pretty unique in sport at the moment, British sport anyway. Where else will you get a team from a small town being able to compete at the top end of the elite division, being in the major Cup final in the game's show piece occasion, when a few years ago they were in serious financial trouble.

You have to say the club has got some fantastic people at the top, not least Daryl Powell.

If Clark joins us he is giving up a lot so I hope we can make it worth his while. Hopefully we can though and I am sure he knows he is joining a very professional set up with Tony Smith and i just hope we can move his game forward and take him to being one of the world's best hookers.

It isn't unique to Rugby League though Sally whereas Rugby League is unique in that it is only played in a localised area of the country at the top level. This is one of the wide reaching issues that Rugby League has never, despite its efforts, been able to address.
I have a cockney mate here at work who thought it was lovely and amusing that a team of coal miners from Castleford could compete with a team of the elite from Leeds
I was delighted as a Rugby League fan to see Castleford in the CC Final and understand what a remarkable achievement it is etc etc but however quaint and heroic it was for Castleford to appear in the CC final it does nothing for our reputation as a top drawer sport to the wider non believing public

Castlford are not a quaint little club....like it or not for large parts of modern rugby league history they have been a major club. rugby league is not massive sport nor is it massively supported. Cas like us for many many years were always there and there abouts, winning the odd final, getting close to the top of the league and playing a nice brand of rugby supported by enthusiastic if average rugby league crowds. back in 1990 when we went to wembley no one said that was quaint and When Cas went two years later that was absolutely no different to our attempt at beating the pies.

talk the game up where else would a town of 39 thousand people take twenty odd thousand to wembley.

Surely it's just as quaint when a team of miners and shepherds from little Wales (population. 3 mill lots) win the six nations over massive England (population 53 mill).........???? It's either quaint or just plain to me.....

talk the game up at every opportunity.....

FB, I talk the game up continually and argue the RL cause vigorously but you just highlight my point
History has got nothing to do with what I'm saying
You perceive Castleford as a big club? Castleford with as you say a population of 39000 who operate out of a dump called the Mend A Hose Stadium, who are haemorrhaging players at an alarming rate and who without selling players in advance would possibly be no longer with us!
I'm afraid that you can dress it up which ever way you want to and analyse anything you like but these are not the actions of a big club

Cas have signed Junior Moors and Ben Roberts for next season among others, they may not be household names over here, but are good players and would walk into most SL clubs, Roberts was the understudy to Cronk at the Storm and when called upon had rave reviews some calling for fulltime starting sport.
Not bad signings for a small town club??

6pm the announcement will be made.

Warrington Wolves confirm the signing of Daryl Clark from Castleford Tigers on a 4-year deal as of next season until November 2018. Full story soon: www.warringtonwolves.com

Warrington Wolves confirm the signing of Daryl Clark from Castleford Tigers on a 4-year deal as of next season until November 2018. Full story soon: www.warringtonwolves.com

Confirmed took long enough

Well that's a surprise, who would have thought ?

Biggest not-so-secret secret in SL. Welcome aboard Daryl, you're going to do wonders!