Duncan Castles ✓

@DuncanCastles

Journalist • The Transfers Podcast • Sunday Times • Daily Record • @duncancastles.bsky.social • @TransfersCast https://t.co/x9k1gq6SbH

237 796Followers

2 187Following

41 961Posts total

423KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 372this account4 404median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.00%this account1.84%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.97%this account1.47%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 372	4 404	0.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.00%	1.84%	0.54×
Engagement rate	0.97%	1.47%	0.66×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

256.4K3 Sep

1.3K

789

376

156.3K4 Sep

1.7K

3.2K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%3 Sep

1.74%

2.66%

1.86%

0.35%4 Sep

0.98%

0.33%

0.95%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes74.4%963 in total

Reposts8.8%114 in total

Replies3.6%46 in total

Quotes1.8%23 in total

Bookmarks11.4%148 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@DuncanCastles And, you know what?, if he is making it up (now), that would still make him extremely stupid 3.2K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 @DuncanCastles There remains the possibility that this extends to VAR. The less experienced refs don’t dare argue with the more experienced official on VAR, so once sent to the monitor they have no option than to go with the review rather than stand by their on-field decision. 3K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 @DuncanCastles Also when Coote was exposed, the PGMOL were asked if they were going to introduce drug-testing and it was immediately dismissed. No-one seemed to press them on it, despite us now having hard evidence abuse happens. 1.7K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 Interesting that the response to this from Graham Scott (and other refereeing quarters) is that Mike Dean must be making his story up. Yet in the same article Scott writes that he "joined the Premier League list in 2015 and was bewildered by the culture that was permitted and 156.3K views · 470 likes · 58 reposts · 14 replies 04 Sep 2026 @DuncanCastles Mike Dean's a Kn0b. Always has been. Absolute messiah complex. 376 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @DuncanCastles I keep saying they’re cheats. They think all this makes them sound clever. They’re actually exposing themselves! 789 views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @DuncanCastles Millions of £ at stake and he’s having his little jokes in games to entertain himself 1.3K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 A ‘professional’ referee… https://t.co/tmxqU0jFLl 256.4K views · 390 likes · 54 reposts · 29 replies 03 Sep 2026