Want to know what the biggest winning margin ever for the Castleford Tigers is? Well, you’ve come to the right place! On April the 17th in 1995 the Cantleford Tigers defeated local rivals Wakefield 86-0 at Wheldon Road in front of 4,443 spectators. This match was a 1994/95 Championship fixture. Richie Blackmore scored a hat-trick…
The official Super League website has released a list of 2020 Super League club signings so far. The list shows the changing face of a number of Super League clubs, most notably Hull KR, the Salford Red Devils and Wakefield Trinity. Here is the list. Castleford Tigers George Griffin Tyla Hepi Derrell Olpherts Sosaia Feki…
Many rugby league fans felt that the Castleford Tigers were hard done by in 2017. The club were forced to exclude Zak Hardaker from their Grand Final squad and the Tigers went on to lose to the Leeds Rhinos at Old Trafford. But the 2017 campaign has now been and gone; it is time to…
It should have been a proud moment for Castleford Tigers players and supporters to celebrate the club reaching the Challenge Cup final after defeating the Widnes Vikings 28-6. Instead it turned into a disgraceful scene that Rugby League should be thoroughly embarrassed about. After the full time siren, and as Castoeford players thanks their supporters,…
The spotlight is on… Classy Cas’: Castleford Tigers sit joint top of Super League after four straight victories has given Daryl Powell’s men the perfect start to the new season. Powell took over from Ian Millward in May last year and brought some much needed stability to the club with a return of 11 points…
The Spotlight is on… Bradford: this week the RFL hit Bradford Bulls with a 6-point deduction that leaves them 4 points adrift of London at the bottom of the Super League table. With the threat of relegation at the end of the season, this is absolutely disasterous for Francis Cummins and his squad. A dark…
The Castleford Tigers have announced that they have rejected a bid by the Salford Reds to acquire play maker Rangi Chase. Chase has been the subject of a number of bid by various teams over the last 18 months. He was all by one his way to Hull FC for the 2013 season before Visa…
Castleford Tigers standoff Rangi Chase has opened up to TheSun.co.uk about the abuse he received after making the decision to play for England. Chase has described his treatment as “discriminatory” and pointed to examples in other sports where people born and raised outside of England turn out for England. You know what Rangi, I’ve got…
At some point we could see NRL clubs heading into the 2014 season with a heap of salary cap space to spare and no one to spend that money on. When clubs get to that point they have two options. They can use that spare salary cap space to give advance payments future signings, or,…
Right now there is a lot of talk about restructuring the Super League and Championship competitions. Some of the idea’s on the table seem alright. Others are completely ridiculous and should not even be up for consideration. The problem with all of the options being put up for discussion right now is that they do…
The problem a lot of Super League teams are faced with is spending more money than they make. That is the simplistic answer to the financial issues dogging the likes of Salford, Castleford and Hull KR. The salary cap sits at £1.65m. That means that clubs can spend up to that limit on wages and…
It is an issue that fires up a lot of fans and one I think is pretty clear cut. What happens when a clubs finds itself in a perilous financial situation and is fighting for its life. Should a governing body step in and take control of the situation, or should they stand back and let things…
The Bradford Bulls will stay in Super League in 2013 but me “monitored”, what ever that means. Probably would have been handy if they were “monitored” in the lead up to them going into administration, but hey, what do I know! This decision will rub a lot of people up the wrong way but it…
Every so often, the rivers of Pommy bullshit come so thick and fast that I have to step in and say something about it. This is one of those times my friends. It all started last weekend during the Challenge Cup Final, which was won by those insufferable idiots in Warrington. You know, the ones…
When I visited England back in 2006, I was lucky enough to visit Wakefield. Now, I say lucky in the way that, after being to Wakefield, I feel lucky every single day since that I don’t actually live in Wakefield! While there, I saw the stadium the Wakefield Wildcats play out of. It was a…
So Super League has finished its latest expansion and we now have a Welsh team in the competition which is great. However already eyes are turning towards a few years from now when all current clubs Super League licenses will come up for review. That means teams with below standard stadiums, poor finances and poor…
When the sole purpose of a club seems to be to draw attention to itself by being a circus act or a punch line in a joke, then you know it doesn’t belong in Super League. Sure, I’ve been critical of clubs in the UK before for being complete and utter shit, but with Castleford,…
Rugby League has a history of clubs messing about with some cheap and tacky stunts, but at the end of the day the vast majority are harmless, quickly forgotten and in some rare cases, even fondly remembered for their “out there” ideas. In signing former sprinter and convicted drug cheat Dwayne Chambers, the Castleford Tigers…
Anyone that had read my opinions in recent years knows I am 100% behind the Franchise system that Super League will have in place from 2009. Promotion and Relegation does not work and that can be seen in the financial position of a number of National League clubs who have gone broke trying to gain promotion. However,…
With the announcement that Super League would be moving towards a franchise system and scrapping Promotion and Relegation, we have seen a number of lower grade teams in the UK making a big song and dance about why they deserve to be in the final Super League lineup. Among those were the Widnes Vikings. You’d…
The success of the Catalan Dragons is already paying off with Barcelona Football Club taking note of the interest surrounding the clubs first appearance in the Challenge Cup Final and the media and local interest it has gathered. The Catalan region, which includes Barcelona, has been buzzing over the Dragons in recent weeks, so much so that…