I see that the whinos have been raiding our home grown junior talent again, they have now signed the Castleford Lock Lane forward Daniel Smith, a nephew of former Castleford, Wigan and Hull player Tony Smith.

He's been a part of their scholarship scheme for a while now so it doesn't make it too much of a surprise to be honest, but why are our best up-coming junior players still allowed to slip through our net

Surely junior players from this area must be aware of the progress made by current first team players like westy,shenny,huby and owen to realise that you dont have to go and play academy level at leeds to suceed and move upto SL?

This close season has been full of Cas announcing the signings of juniors. If we'venot signed Casper's nephew, I'd guess it's because we didn't want to?

I used to live next door to him, i remember him as a baby


feel old now

but juniors also look at people like burrow, mcguire, sinfield, smith, hall, bailey, diskin, jjb, ablett, watkins, gibson, jones-bishop etc and realise they can come play for Leeds, develop, play SL and win things



in fairness though, Cas seem to be doing well with their youngsters and thats the whole point of scrapping relegation so good on you

Ride the wave baby... It never lasts long enough.

You hope

why hope on a certainty nothing is forever

Not in the slightest, best of luck to you and all the Five Towns players you've got over there..



The fact is though that nothing lasts forever - just look at the Goons.

We're making the most of our success as fans and the clubs are using it to attract lucarative sponsors and lots of young talented players. The club is run extremely well so success should hang around a while yet. But like you say success fades over time so we aren't taking it for granted.

If Cas havent signed him on, Its because he isnt seen as good enough, Or he didnt want to sign for us, Either way i arent bothered - We are snapping up the majority of the very top youngsters so we cant complain

I can't believe Cas let Alex Shenton leave aswell.

I missed that.

Where has he gone ?

think you might find its the unthinkable. he didn't want to

alex shentons gone to wakey. daniel smith came through the wakefield scholarship and left in his final year to leeds. cas have just signed 3 lads from milford in leeds and are regulars at raiding wakey scholarship lads so its just swings and roundabouts i think, although this time the majority of cas signinigs are from fryston under 16s

Qu'elle surprisé More 'inside' information from our resident Cas/Wakey fan

[url=http://www.castigers.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi?439_11168Our turn to snatch someone elses kids.[/url

I think all cas fans should be proud that the club have become the first club to act as a feeder club for lower division clubs by releasing all their promising youngsters.Oh wait a minute isnt it supposed to be the other way round

any one know any info on the 2 lads ??

these kids sound very promising indeed

this imo sends out the wrong message to local lads when we are signing from over the hill,there is more than enough talant in this area to put three teams out never mind one.

it also beggers the question if these two kids are good enough why have wigan,wire,saints,leigh,widnes all missed them and not offered them the chance to play in there acadamy`s

I just been given info today that one of the lads think it was ryan was offered a contract at wigan but turned it down, Dont know the reasons why, but he was offered a contract but decided to go to the tigers.
He may think hes got more chance of making first team appearances, who knows what goes through these young brains

Or maybe he wants a chance of winning some silverware?

Wigan over the last 15 years or so have been the worst team in the country to let go good young home grown players, so who would want to sign for them.

First of all i dont see the problem with signing 2 kids from the pennines, I wouldnt have a problem us signing 2 from london or Wales if they added something to the squad. I understand what your saying Rob that we do have plenty of talent locally but adding a face or two from outside cant hurt.

As for them rejecting Wigan, I have it on good authority they chose to go to the bigger club