I'm sure it had some impact, but whatever is behind the new stadium being built doesn't really matter, the fact that their attendances shot through the roof once they were in the new stadium is the significant factor, once we finally get in there, I'm sure our attendances will also be boosted and along with that will come a greater commercial activity, with hospitality bringing in even more much needed revenue.

In all the years i have supported cas i have known many lows, but nothing has left me feeling as bad as reading this thread, many times we have heard the word merger but i have never been worried since i knew the cas fans would never let it happen. But now i see cas fans are actually considering it and that sickens me. No matter how dissapointing a result may have been theres was always next week, the club would go on and our fortunes would change one way or another. All that matters to me is supporting cas tigers, what league they are in and how many trophies we win does not come remotly close in importance.

If this merger were to ever happen, why the hell should any cas fan support it? it would have as much to do with cas as salford does. I would despise any merged club with a passion, and end my assosiation with pro rl completly, and there are thousand more like me.

For someone to say that no other club could bear the castleford tigers name makes my blood boil why the hell if cas fans want to start afresh in the lower leagues shouldnt they be allowed to? Even doing a bramley and becoming amatuer is better than just allowing the club to die, and the club would be dead, killed off by a new team that has nothing to do with castleford or its history.

I have sung 'cas until i die' on the terraces since i was a child, and i damn well meant it.

Don't you thinks its about time you went home then, you must be starving




You are bang on the money for me, i feel the same way.

Ditto me.

Well if you move to Newmarket a merger will happen eventually.

Best thing you could do if you don't want to merge is also refuse to move to Newmarket under any circumstances.

We won't be moving to Newmarket, I don't think Wakey will either, for that matter
and last but by no means least, there will not be a merger!

Totally agree mate. I couldn't have anything to do with a soul-less merged together club. I would rather us battle it out in the National Leagues then staying "Super League" and lose our club.

It may be a difficult concept for you to grasp! But calling it a joint venture is a joke are you suggesting that two organisations are kept , maybe we should keep two teams and play them both at the same time against the opposition then maybe the merger/ joint venture would win more than they lose.

Have you actually bothered to read the link I posted? Your ignorance of the facts suggests not.

But we won't move to Newmarket...well, apart from in your own head.

I have read your link and am I to understand that you are proposing a similar set-up in the Wakefield /Castleford situation ?

Not at all. Someone had suggested that a 'merger' had worked well for Wests Tigers. I was merely pointing out that a merger is not how that club was formed.

Fine sentiments' young man, could not agree more. It would be easy for me to say i would not go either but who knows eh.

i think that a merger between the 2 clubs, ala balmain and wests, would prove problamatic
but i do believe that a groundshare is the only way forward both financially and ensuring sl security next time round

if both clubs dont agree soon to this,and unless both clubs havn't got new stadiums by the next deadline,then i believe that one of you could be in for the chop

Newmarket isnt sorted yet, there's a big push by the objectors isnt there, it will go to a public enquiry

I'm the ghost of wheldon road

I have miss understood your original post, sorry.

Who knows but many objections doesn’t automatically lead to a rejection of an application just as many letters of support doesn’t mean approval. A lot of the objections are based on scaremongering and the loss of green belt. The statutory responses are the important ones to consider and perhaps the most important, the EA, have no objections to the development. One would’ve thought that they of all organisations would be concerned with the unnecessary loss of green belt.

Anyhow we’ll know either way in roughly 2 months time and it’s possibly safe to say a Newmarket failure is Castelford’s plan B at the moment.

nope would never work.

the idea that all the wakey and cas fans would unite behind a new "superclub" is ridiculous.

as a lifelong wakefield supporter who attends most matches both home and away i can honestly say i would simply cancel sky sports and forget about SL entirely!

also there is no benefit from merging. even if both clubs sold up entirely and pooled everything they have, they would be lucky to build a single stand let alone a new stadium.

forget it!

stay loyal to who you are and who you support, if its outside SL then so be it (i for one will be there!)

Where is the site for the new stadium that Castleford Tigers, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Featherstone Rovers going to be situated.

I heard yesterday that an anouncement was going to made this coming Thursday concerning this subject.

In my opinion I think it's a good idea to build a new stadium for all the three clubs to share.

Good Luck.

I really think you are having a laugh now PHOTO FINISH, 3 clubs sharing one stadium?

There is a stadium related announcement on Friday with respect to the facilities on offer at Newmarket, although I don’t think it involves either of Castleford or Featherstone.

Think Radio Manc have their wires crossed somewhere. Would be interesting to know their source.

Thought you were a fax fan from over the hill????????????????????????????????????????????