Sold Johnson & McLelland for under 100k? They SPENT 250k on players, however.

3 years of profit in a row, one of what...3? 4? self sufficient teams in the league.

Quote ="Fully"Cas increased their turnover to £6m and recorded a record £691,000 profit for 2017 https://www.castlefordtigers.com/article.php?id=6085 '" Very impressive!

Quote ="Fully"Cas increased their turnover to £6m and recorded a record £691,000 profit for 2017 https://www.castlefordtigers.com/article.php?id=6085 '" Very impressive!

Not if you believe bitter wakey fans on here, we are being propped up By a sugar daddy

Well done indeed.

Point me to a "bitter" Wakey fan whose said that?

Oldham & Rochdale could be a go-er , call them North Manchester.
Swinton are a Salford Club & so Salford/Swinton could be done in new stadium more centrally located.

Cas/Fev/Wakey = never gonna happen.
Wigan/Leigh = Never gonna happen.
Hull F.C/Hull K.R = Never gonna happen.
Wire/Widnes = Never gonna happen.

What about London/Hemel ?

Cumbria could work ( & probably needs to )

Key there is where your ill informeed wakey pal put speech marks in between “make a profit “.....

Hope this helps you when you ask me to do your research that you couldn’t be bothered to do in future

All true.

Let's take my club Leigh & say that a merger with Wigan is forced/foisted upon Leigh, what would happen.

Roughly at Championship level that is 4,000 lost fans to the Pro game, at SL level last year that's roughly 5,500 - 6,000 lost to the Pro game. Where do those fans go ? Not Wigan *who will still be Wigan* but maybe 300 - 400 to both Leigh Miners & Leigh East, so the town Amateur Clubs gain maybe 600 - 800 fans between them but potentially 4-5k lost from Leigh Centurions, net loss to the game of 3,200 - 5,200 !!! Worth it ?

Well said. I can see the 2 expansionists on here, with their 17 accounts ...... head spinning for a reply

There wouldn't be 3 better off, there would be 1 & thousands of lost fans to the game !

Bit of a difference between being bitter and being ill informed. Also a bit of a difference between "fans" and "fan". HTH.

Your original post literally says point me to a FAN not fans

If Leigh merged with Wigan (which they won’t) but what would happen is Leigh would just reform in the same way Sheffield and Gateshead did

Warrington Cheshire & have more in common with Greater Manchester than Merseyside. Wire are a top player in the game also.

Widnes Cheshire but have more in common with Merseyside culturally.

Fax = Greater Manchester

I like my trips to Fax & rate their fans as some of the very best in the sport but neither side of the pennies would ever accept that & neither should they.

Weren't Gloucestershire & Oxford meant to be merging? Look how that turned out...

Also true, maybe even as an Amateur Community Club & is still possible.

and your original post was this below, inferring that there are more than one.


Anyway, silliness aside well done to those in charge at Cas for turning the Club around the last few years. It's obvious something that our owner is trying to emulate since he took charge.

We sold one player last year, and I say sold loosely, as it was Denny Solomona who we had to seek legal recourse for.

Outside of that, we sold Luis Johnson but that happened in December this year so will show in the 2018 accounts (accounts are only made up to November 30th 2017).

So in truth the first point is correct, and the second point is a contributory factor but isn't reflected in 2 of the other last 4 years where we have made a profit. So in fairness, the whole profit is a combination of being run better, better financial management, and the success driven from on-field performance.

Out of interest why are the accounts made up to Nov and not April like any other company? Great news for the Castleford club to be in such a healthy position financially.

Company accounts can start in any month of the year, it usually depends when the company was originally formed and 12 month periods from there.
To go from where they were to now is excellent work and they will be the envy of most other RL clubs

Cheers

Forgot about the snake



So Johnson & McLelland will go on the next set of accounts, but again will be offset by the signings of Watts & Mata'utia(?).

is this the new cas forum

I asked you to point out a fan being bitter, Wrencat wasn't.

I assume that's the way it was when they set them up, or they changed them to tie in with around the time SL contracts take effect (e.g. the rugby league year starts in November and ends at the end of October).