The Tigers released a statement recently, updating fans further on the work the club have been doing to increase their grading ahead of the end of the season, with the team looking almost certain to finish 10th in the league.
Included in the statement was detail on all five ‘pillars’ of the grading, and suggested that the side were certain to at least increase their grading to between 14.51 and 14.64, which would have placed them in eighth within the indicative grading from 2023.
This is due to particular increases for Finance and Stadium, after some good work from the club over the past 12 months – largely down to investor, director, and founder of Ergo Real Estate, Martin Jepson’s involvement with the club.
In the post-match press conference for Castleford’s win over Hull FC, head coach Craig Lingard said: “I think what will impact on our IMG status is the attendance next week that will hopefully tip us over the average attendance, and I think looking at social media, the way that ticket sales are going, next week it looks like it’s going to be very very close to being a packed house.”
Indeed, if the Tigers can achieve an average of 7,500 attendance over the past three years – which it seems they are right on the cusp of – they would achieve an extra 0.5 points.
That would, if the information in the statement is all correct, confirm a Grade A status with a score of between 15.01 and 15.14.
The club, in response to this fact, offered some deals for Castleford members to get discounted tickets – and the club revealed on Monday that there were just 2,500 tickets remaining.
That means around 7,500 tickets have been sold for the match, and they could be heading for a sell-out, meaning the club should make it to that 7,500 average, getting them Grade A, and Super League status for 2025.
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