2025

Maturecasfan
Also just because we may have 15 brownie points.
Other clubs may also have 15 points.
Then what.

Maturecasfan Good question, then I assume it will be the 12 top ranked clubs in Super League unless theirs an agreement to expand the league. By my calculations,by the end of the season we should be sitting somewhere between 14.1 and 14.4 points, impossible to be exact as things are ever changing,the high end of that range gives us a chance,the low end might not be enough. It’s ridiculous that a place in Super League could end up coming down to the fractions of points awarded for the number of hits on a website but it may well.

Maturecasfan

We are in the championship no matter what we do unless the SL is increased to 14 teams,
The lack of clarity in the IMG grading system is there to weed out clubs that arent and never have been wanted in SL
For once John Wilkin is correct
https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/jon-wilkin-hits-out-at-lack-of-clarity-in-img-system-and-clubs-who-are-just-surviving

CTID

Ultimately if they have 13 clubs with 15 points they’ll change the metrics to suit their purposes or expand the league. So maybe one team per city with a few foreign clubs to spice it up. I know it won’t work as some clubs are strong areas.

In regards Axiom I’m pretty sure it’ll be signed up and things will move along. At what pace we don’t know but they could give us the money now. The thing is it’s the economies of scale for the dual build that makes the Cas ground affordable and within budget, I wouldn’t expect them to start without doing both. The things we do know are that the full plans are being put together down to where each plug will go are being done, Mr Jepson said this and we are completing works that will stay in situe or be use able elsewhere in the full rebuild.

pirate he is right and I hate to say it.

Leeds, Wigan, saints and Hull are taking the opportunity to blood youngsters because they are in and it won’t matter. It is unfair to the others. You could say Cas are doing that but the injury list proves that for us it’s a necessity or we wouldn’t have a 17 to put out

Fairness would be giving each club 3 or 4 years without relegation so that it becomes more even if we are going down that route and then bring in minimum standards to stay in.

RaoulDuke
the difference is that the teams you mentioned are shoe ins for 2025, we arent there by a long way

pirate

There’s only 2 clubs, maybe 3 who are on the naughty step.
Us, Salford, leigh, can’t see it being leigh, Beaumont would burst an artery, am sure the RFL are scared of him.
London apparently are trying to put some sort of package together to stay in SL.
Think that won’t work, so us or Salford, Salford have had loads of financial problems, get under 5k for home games. The one thing imo that will save them is they are virtually a Manchester team (city).
My gut feeling it will be us, sadly.

pirate Salford are borrowing money just to pay wages and only have players as assets. The interest rates without a mortgagable asset means high rates. They don’t have many, if any players to sell after dupree, croft and ackers went. The council gave them money to pay wages aswell. They have had supporters lend/give them money to survive also. Salford, like castleford, have people with short pockets. Their business plan relies on others bailing them out on wages day.

Leigh would have been 13th in the IMG table if they’d have processed the Cas error when they processed the rfl error. They are bring bullish about being in when maybe they should be bricking it.

Interestingly London are putting forward a case plan to stay in the top flight. Since the rfl have stated next year is a 12 team competition, that would ruffle a few feathers if they even considered it.

Well, we’ve to players now that seem optimistic we’ll be in SL next year. Both exciting prospects that shoud help build a bright future.

Maturecasfan According to the parameters, any club that attains 15 points is a grade A club therefore immune from relegation. Or have they moved the goalposts?

RaoulDuke All makes sense, which is what worries me about the possibility of Tolouse coming up and self funding leaving 11 to share the pot rather than 12. More money for clubs who hold the voting majority. I am assuming that the extra would more than compensate for the loss of gate revenue from one home fixture,food and bar sales.

Senior bro’s signed for 2 years each.

Pleased with that, doing a good job.

As a club we’ve got so many things wrong over the last few years, the board have been complacent and ineffective, our transfer policy has been hotch potch at best and some of the coaching appointments frighteningly naive. Our future as a Super League club is in serious question and we are led by an inexperienced coach who admitted himself to be “learning on the job” With all that said,someone or something is selling to these young players agreeing new contracts a vision of Castleford Tigers that they are buying into. The cynics would say that no-one else wants them,perhaps true in one or two cases but definitely not all. I like to think their is a plan,albeit a longer term one,for that to work we need to be developing players and for all we’d all probably like to see a headline grabbing signing or two the youngsters who have committed to the club could be the foundations for the future.

Leeds could play juniors every week and not get relegated. If they then bring in the metrics whereby you gain points for developing players ( which teams want) , they win again and get further away from debt as you’ll be paying the youngsters lower wages and getting experience in players you can sell. It’s not a level playing field.

Powell and others don’t want to bring the kids through as they are judged on performance. He’s more likely to win with experienced players than juniors. Playing the long game doesn’t keep you in a job.