Re: Castleford RLFC : Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:13 pm  

Yeah ME had started putting money in well before the end of the season, he would have taken over regardless.

If he wanted the club in the Championship he wouldn't have paid for Gale and DF.

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:45 pm  

charlie wrote:

Yeah ME had started putting money in well before the end of the season, he would have taken over regardless.

If he wanted the club in the Championship he wouldn't have paid for Gale and DF.

Yep,

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:26 pm  

Quite right.Can't remember thinking ME might pull out if we stayed up, more like if we went down.

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:47 am  

Belle Vue wrote:

If Mr Jepson is as loaded as cas fans think he is …. Now’s the time to get his hand in his pocket….. dig deep lad… dig deep!

There are some on their site think he’s loaded but he isn’t his investment is being spread over 3 years and the first payment just sneaked in to last years account, but it’s not his money it’s on his company, a property speculation developer, there’s only one reason they have invested in CTrL and Weldon road

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:02 am  

It’s really not our problem we should just be grateful someone was willing to take us over when they did or all this talk of returning to SL would only be a pipe dream even with the new stand. I think in the entire tenure of our SL existence we have been lucky to survive with problems both on and off the field. We can all remember when the media turned up for our expulsion only to be saved by the demise of the Crusaders. How many times have we won the last game to stay up and even relied on Castleford to beat Salford.

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:08 am  

I think ME would have continued with the take over regardless of relegation or not but it would have been impossible to improve the squad enough to have anything other than another season of struggles and woe. This reset season in the Championship is by far a better option imho.

Re: Castleford RLFC : Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:40 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

It’s really not our problem we should just be grateful someone was willing to take us over when they did or all this talk of returning to SL would only be a pipe dream even with the new stand. I think in the entire tenure of our SL existence we have been lucky to survive with problems both on and off the field. We can all remember when the media turned up for our expulsion only to be saved by the demise of the Crusaders. How many times have we won the last game to stay up and even relied on Castleford to beat Salford.

Exactly this.
Frankly I don't care about Cas one way or the other but my focus is on trinity.
I don't know Matt Ellis but he hasn't got where he is without being smart and I'm sure our IMG rating will only increase as time passes