Gav Wilson Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 York City Knights team up with Cas Tigers. @GavWilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Plow Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 How’s that gonna work with the reserves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gates1 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Happy with this as a Cas fan. Decent coach at York and some good players. Not sure how it will be deployed alongside the reserves though. I'd imagine players who aren't in the immediate equation will probably dual reg to give them a chance to impress and win a 1st team spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyship Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Gav Wilson said: York City Knights team up with Cas Tigers. Good move by York. It’s obviously worked well for Fev this year (especially) York fans - just get ready to be called Cas Reserves / York City Tigers by the wags on here for evermore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Prince Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Castleford will already have a reserve team though. How many spare players do Cas have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooleboy Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Why does everybody look at the negatives, surely it is up to both Clubs to work it out to suit both parties. There will probably be a couple of players who are close to getting into Cas's first team and will benefit playing for York rather than the Reserve side, which standard wise wouldn't be as good as the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleD Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I’m not sure what players York are thinking might come to them. Cas have let go quite a few fringe players, who have been on DR previously - Maher, Gill, Egodo, Aston etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gates1 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 16 minutes ago, DoubleD said: I’m not sure what players York are thinking might come to them. Cas have let go quite a few fringe players, who have been on DR previously - Maher, Gill, Egodo, Aston etc I'd imagine the likes of Olpherts, Hepi, O Neill, Turner, Foster (when he recovers from injury) and Jamie Ellis (if he's still at the club) could be available - unless we have another injury hit year they shoulf only be fringe players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirlin Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, mightyship said: Good move by York. It’s obviously worked well for Fev this year (especially) York fans - just get ready to be called Cas Reserves / York City Tigers by the wags on here for evermore Nothing new , they dubbed us York KR when we DR'd with them in 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Clothesoff Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Believe it or not, York City Knights are going to be playing games that are much more competitive and of a higher standard than the reserve league, so it makes complete sense to team up with a lower league side for a variety of reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blues Ox Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Good luck. On paper a DR agreement with Cas looks good, it certainly did to Fax these last few seasons, but once the inevitable Cas injury crisis hits about 2 months in to the season it will make you wish you went with someone with more players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanishknight Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 One good thing is the players wont get confused who they are playing for with both clubs shirts being similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Lost count of how many times I have seen people on this forum who have assumed the return of reserves will mean the end of DR. Remember, the academy set-up has changed from U19s to U18s next year. It's fairly straightforward to work out that there is going to be a large chunk left over of what would normally be the seniors in the U19s and those guys are likely to form the nucleus of the reserves teams. What it means is that SL teams will be able to hold on to some of those 19 and 20-year-old guys who were just too old for the academy but not ready for a 1st team squad number yet. You've only to look at the progress the likes of McLelland and Alex Sutcliffe made playing high-level Championship rugby this season to realise that SL teams are going to prefer their fringe players to be playing in competitive, meaningful games against hardened pro/semi-pro teams in front of 2-3k crowds rather than in reserves games in front of 200 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davet Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 The plus side for Cas players is that when they come to play a HOME game for us Knights, they will be playing in a quality stadium!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADREDNIGE Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, davet said: The plus side for Cas players is that when they come to play a HOME game for us Knights, they will be playing in a quality stadium!! Brilliant lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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