Because there's no food banks in Wakey, eh Vasty? Good to see you've not changed and you're still a insufferable pompous know-it-all.

How do people cope with you on here? Do you still get aggressive and rant at people who don't agree with you? you sad colossal whopper!

Oh ye nearly... forgot how's the Greg Inglis like Lucas Walshaw getting on? Guffaw!

I see Vastman is still getting massive chomps ...



Anyway, back on topic. Season ticket sales, let's hope we have a mad rush in time for Christmas (I won't hold
my breath mind)

Won't last they will soon scuttle off back to their own little forum where they can create there own reality, where they never have to justify anything they post.

Shows the real difference between the two sets of supporters although there are one or two Cas fans brave enough to join the debate. Unable to take modest criticism the rest hide. We are at the end of endless mindless jibes and we stop and fight our corner.

Stand up Trinity fans and take a bow

Well, welcome to our forum Kippaxer.
You will get the same warm welcome that all our visitors get.

However, so far all I've seen is derailing a thread and trying to goad a Wakefield fan on the Wakefield forum.
I openly admit that I'm more tollerant of home supporters winding each other up than I am of visitors just coming on here for a virtual spat.
So consider this your warning. Play nice or we'll send you home with a note to your mum and we'll close the door behind you.

A little over the top but on the whole very near to the bone, I worked at Nestle on Wheldon road till it closed so have practically lived among them.
Two instances.
Prior to its closure I got talking to a young lass one Friday morning, it turned out she was 24, we had the usual chat, what's your plans for the weekend? etc. She told me she was so excited, she was going into Wakey for the night, her first time ever, I was pretty shocked at this so quizzed her a little more and she said it was her first time in Wakey ever and that included shopping. She'd never been into Wakey in 24yrs.
A second one, a lad I worked with and had a few nights around Cas with after the Wakey games lives on the edge of Cas town centre. He's 56, he retired when the factory shut, to this day (and it's four or five years since) he hasn't been out of Castleford, no holiday, no day in Leeds, no food shopping in Ponte, that is quite shocking, I've ribbed him about it and he's quite proud of the fact.

I bet they can both play the banjo though!

That sounds so wrong, that could be taken two ways, but on both sides, yes.

Nah not OTT at all, I accept there are exceptions to the rule but not many.

What gets me is not the local rivalry or the fact that apart from the 2000's they were more successful than us in the last 40 years. It's not even the place itself which has to rank along with Widnes and Middlesborough as the least picturesque places in the UK and I'm not pretending that Wakefield isn't anything but ordinary.

Nope for me it's the totally unjustified sense of self satisfaction they possess and IMHO that can only be the case because the majority of them are insular and wilfully ignorant. I think that's why Cas players don't travel well and why Wakefield is such a haven for them. I'm not suggesting the players are typical of the fans but when that's all you've known a move to Hudds or Leeds will be a huge shock.

Strange also because Featherstone which is basically just a street and should be worse if anything is generally far more enlightened though it's hardly Greenwich Village or Belgravia. As far as I'm concerned Cas folks self regard is all bluster until they gat a star above the badge, we have two and Fev have one.

I now await Castleford's first title, bound to happen now I've said all that

Nothing less impressive than seemingly clever people looking down their noses at those less so. Add to that the belief that Castleford is somehow unique within in the district is pathetic. My job takes me all over the district and I could probably introduce you to just as many people who've never left Lupset, let alone Wakefield (or anywhere else in the district for that matter), but I don't feel the need to make myself feel better by mocking them.
I grew out of the "my dump is better than your dump" a long time ago; I suggest others do the same.

Not OTT at all Vasty.....Nobody has ever moved to Cas.
Never?:)

I'm guessing you're having a veiled pop at me there, so I'll speak for myself.
I'm not a seemingly clever person I take people on face value, I was commenting on two instances I know to be fact and was genuinely shocked by, you say you could "probably" introduce me to people who have never left Lupset, that would suggest you have never actually come across this insular attitude, you're just assuming you could. I actually class the guy as an old mate and wouldn't look down my nose at a friend. If you think never leaving Cas is an ok attitude, fair enough, I just think it's sad.