This weekend is my third trip home for a game. the last 2 visits were for Wakey and Leeds so i am bringing some Scarbados luck and going for a third win for me and Cas. Prediction, Cas by 8

Who do we think will score our one try of the game this week?

TheFirm I never said tries, all penalties apart from the solitary try and conversion. Sad innit?

pirate not a chance!!! Save your money and do something that might actually be fun lol

Well I weren’t going, but the daughter as no one to go with and I’ve a freebie, so I’m gonna bite the bullet and suffer the 80mins. I keep telling myself, it’ll soon be over.

TheMachine When you live away from Cas, then a visit every now and then is Fun, even a visit darnt lane win or lose is fun, then there is the Lion for beer and a band and a sagar street kebab. Much better than watching scarborough Pirates with a sea fret chilling you to the bones You dont know what you have till you give it up, Looks like we have different ideas of what fun is, but I suspect you will be at the game and also be enjoying the craic, we just cant help it can we? Its like opium for the people CTID

pirate I agree with all of that,it's three and a half hours for me to Cas on a good day,five on a bad one,but Rugby league is in my blood, Cas are in my blood,the walk down Wheldon Road,decent fish and chips,beer with a head on...and most of all the atmosphere,the fans make it for me,they're what get me in the car on a miserable Friday night on the A1. I've always known that,from the dark days,even when we were winning and only getting a few thousand through the gates. We appreciate our club,back them to the hilt and I'm not sure our board have that appreciation for us. That's sad!

pirate I can guarantee you now I'll be nowhere near the ground lol

Like pretty much everyone else I've attended matches over the years and seen some proper cricket scores and still traveled away to Saints etc knowing what the outcome would be. I've lost interest these days though, haven't had a season ticket in a long time now and I won't be attending this week. We had the chance in 2017 to really kick on and make a name for ourselves. The team was there and with a continued investment push from the BOD we could have easily secured ourselves as a top 3 team. That would have brought through more commercial opportunities and improved signings as we already had a team where players wanted to come and be a part of it. Radford and in part the BOD have sent the club back 10 years. The signings made under him have been awful and we're paying a heavy price for it, that said there's enough experience in that team to get their heads down and do something about it but none of them other than the odd few have that desire. Other than the odd loan or other signing I can't see us doing much more this year, somehow we need to avoid relegation and then Last and Lingard need to properly rebuild the team over the off season.

I have to largely agree with you Matt. I think through the dawns, false dawns and opportunities we have had over the years, watershed lines in the sand never to be repeated......! They're odd feelings I have these days, I care, but nowhere near how much I did before. I keep coming back to I don't know what I am believing in - what our plan is beyond make it through this season and hope! Is our strategy to grow our own, reduce directors loans, not spend but develop. I don't know what we stand for and so can't find anything other than where I was born and blind loyalty and that wears thin. A lot of people their kids keep them into it, my two couldn't be less bothered.... so I have less to drag me back when I waver!

mdean Ditto. I was born into it. Dragged there at 3/4 years old. By the time I was 10 years old it was in my DNA, got my first season ticket then. Had one every year up to lock down. Thought hard and fast about reNewing after lockdown, but I’d already drifted away for the sport as a whole. Radford being head coach did it for me. The club is happy to just plod along, maybe every ten years or so we’ll get to a challenge cup final, Can’t even see that happening any time soon. Both my kids was brought up with the club at heart, both went to their first game at 3yrs old. The oldest now prefers to go to hillsborough for the football. Youngest loves the club but is also feeling disheartened. As I’ve got older the body as got harder to drag to matches. I’ll be going on Friday, only because the youngest as no one to go with, because the oldest wants to watch Sheffield Wednesday on tv same night. Both are season ticket holders. If the club arnt careful fans will find other things to do rather than go watch a losing side.

Tigers v Catalans - Round 12

Maturecasfan

Matt

I had a freebie Matt, daughter couldn’t go.
Other wise I’d have stayed at home.

Hepworth

pirate
Yup,I had the misfortune of staying till the final whistle too,sadly the beer in the Premier Inn is more suitable for washing your feet in than drinking so couldn't even drown my sorrows. At least there were no sharp objects in the bathroom!

stuey

I honestly can not see where our next win is coming from. We have 10 teams all considerably better than us.

Maybe Wakey away, but apart from that - none.

Hepworth

stuey
Trawling through the fixtures searching for our next potential victory wasn't where I'd hoped to be halfway through the season,the Wakey game is already looking crucial and unless we have a dramatic upturn in form we'll be reliant on other teams underperforming against us. Even then I couldn't see us beating any of the top 6,so we're looking at scraping wins against the likes of FC or the Giants. I've even looked at the fixtures in and around the challenge cup,hoping we get a fixture against a team potentially resting players,now that's desperate but in reality it's where we're at and suddenly that for point cushion is looking worryingly slender.

pirate

Hepworth

I am resigned to rebuilding in the championship, if not next season it will be the season after, the job is too big for Andy Last, no matter what his ambitions and aspirations are. I actually feel a bit sorry for him.

Michael Carter seemed to surrender Wakey to relegation in his pre match interview and pointed to the assets they will hold and the commercial value of them, we are way behind Wakey on that front and if that Axiom planning doesnt get passed next month we will become a Widnes or a Bradford, scraping an existence in the championship and that is the scary truth that our directiors need to wake up to.

The hard core supporters will still follow Cas but the younger end will just move on to other things and who can blame them. Without their support the club will just wither away

Very troubling times darnt lane

Im off for a ride on the Bonnie to clear my head

Pat

We have already got our coach in place for championship next year the batley lad

mdean

I echo sadly a good proportion of what has been typed, it is easy to take comfort from Wakey, they will be playing now pressure free.

2 wins isn't a lot!

FlatCapper

The optimist in me can only assume that Last has undertaken some form of transitional period in which he is attempting to make changes to the way our aging squad play whilst also looking to future potential signings. This may have been his selling point during the interview process?

Tony Smith will be doing something similar at Hull and has so far encountered a similar, if not quite as disastrous, outcome.

Whatever the reason, time is running out on finding a successful outcome.

SouthCoastTiger

pirate I came up from the south coast (600 mile round trip) and oh boy that first half..... but as a life long supporter they will always be my team

pirate

SouthCoastTiger
Growing up on Duke st, “guarding” cars for a tanner so we could get into the games, clearing snow and straw for a free game ticket, selling programmes etc I too have no choice and will continue the support albeit from a distance and getting to fewer games than i should.
Its the younger end that i fear will drift away from the club.
The club feels more detached from the community than ever these days and thats a shame because there is nothing else holding the town together.

Hopefully things are moving on behind the scenes and I am just being a maudling old git

CTID

Maturecasfan

Don’t know a great deal…..but, I’ve heard there could be a meeting this week with Ian Fulton and others.
Not 100% on what it’s about, but let’s hope it’s true and fingers crossed.

Matt

Maturecasfan

Hopefully it’s about releasing more money to the club in order to buy us out of this mess we’ve found ourselves in. Attendances will continue to fall if things don’t improve soon and there’s not a lot of good news on the horizon. Could do with either some movement on the stadium front and (or) a few new signings.

mdean

Matt
I would just love us to set out a plan, a proper one not based on what other people promise.
A direction to repay directors loans at 10% a year - even if that means it would take 15 years for the club to be stand-alone - I could value that.
Based on that, be clear how much money we have to protect for improvements to the ground - again, most people would be supportive of a 5 year ticket - if they knew why and we were self sufficient.
Be clear if we ARE ring fencing investment in growing our own and if we are, set a target - 70% first team squad academy products by 2030 for example.

I am just saying “stuff” of course, but buck the trend, trust the people who pay the money and turn up to buy in to what you are trying to do because this closeted tofu like statements that say nothing but generic rubbish are not working. Buck the trend and say something for people to believe in. I trust the supporters to buy in to something bigger than this season. I just don’t feel like we have any cohesive vision, we seem to flip and flop about doing nothing well!

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