The term yo-yo club fits Castleford Tigers perfectly as they have spent the last decade either at the bottom of the Super League or at the top of National League One.

Indeed, with the new licensing rules, which removed relegation from the Super League, the club won a licence to stay in the League and so they have remained in the top division.

The licence guarantees Castleford Super League status for the next three years, which gives the club the chance to progress.
The Tigers grabbed the attention of the sporting public recently when they gave shamed sprinter Dwain Chambers a contract to play for them.

The athlete - who was banned from his sport for failing a drugs test - started training with the first team, but with no experience in the sport Chambers played just one reserve game. However, it did earn the club some extra column inches.

Castleford have been in existence since 1926 and still play at Wheldon Road, although it has since been renamed "The Jungle".

It took Cas six years to achieve their first honour, the Yorkshire League, and they followed up three years later with an even bigger prize in the Challenge Cup.

Another three Challenge Cup successes followed along with a number of other prestigious trophies, including the Yorkshire Cup and the Regal Trophy.

The club's best season in the modern era came in 1999 when the Tigers finished fifth in the league standings and appeared in the semi-finals of both the Challenge Cup and the Grand Final play-offs.