I wouldn't travel anywhere, unless it was in Cas.

If you take the club's identity out of Cas, then it's not Cas. Might as well call it Calder.

There are still far too many foreign players in the UK and i dont see this stopping, an easy way to get more youngsters in teams is to cut the quota, no need to stop P+R. franchising is apartheid simple as, i recently applied for a grant to Sport England for Selby Warriors, one of the questions was "does your organisation exclude any groups" if yes the grant is not for you. The irony to this question is the chairman of sport England is our own Richard Lewis, the man at the head of RL the organisation that excludes over half the clubs in the country from its top flight.
All the RFL are doing with the licencing system is paying lip service to the fans and championship clubs, at the next round they will pick the teams THEY want in just like they did last time, no matter what grades teams get. I would think more of them if they just did that instead of putting clubs through a very expensive and time consuming process

well i was aiming for minimum games

two cup runs and two playoff runs could get it to 30+
I take the point of the rfl "encouraging" you to merge, this is the worst thing that could happen and would put me off the whole concept of cas and wakey sharing a ground

On the other hand we could build a stadium for Cas at the site we've already identified and started work on, with community facilities including a swimming pool … meaning it would be used 52 weeks a year.


Just an idea …

The area around it might do, but the stadium?

We're not AC Wakey, they're not Inter Castleford. We're two different clubs representing two different areas. Why do people constantly drag up inappropriate examples from different sports, different circumstances and different cultures to try and justify crowbaring Cas and Wakey together?

I remember reading somewhere that the Stanley site is about 3.5miles from both population centres - an ideal location if a ground share ended up being the only way.

Until bricks are actually being laid, as opposed to shat then we are both (Cas & Wakey) at risk.

And how much from the sale of your ground you putting in the pot???

I agree with you that it's annoying - and pointless. However, Cas and Wakey are in a unique position in that both teams need new stadia if they are to stay up in Superleague and both teams come under the same council, and no way can one council afford to invest in two rugby league clubs, no matter how different the communities or how strongly each identifies with their own rugby league club. Hull is different because one club has no worries with regard to its facilities and the other has clearly done enough to keep the wolf from the door. All other clubs are in separate towns and boroughs from each other, even though some of us are close to one another, so there isn't the same financial pinch on one authority.

Would it be possible for Cas and Wakey to share a stadium but maintain individual identities within that ground? For instance, by having a Wakefield end and a Castleford end, with separate changing rooms and tunnel on to the pitch and identical corporate and other facilities so that each club could operate separately within the same overall physical space? I dunno. It probably sounds dumb! But especially in this time of credit crunch, unless one club can find entirely separate finance and come up with a separate yet equally atttractive idea (which would compel the council to approve it), I cannot see how Wakefield Council can endorse and/or help finance two entirely separate rugby league clubs within its own borough. Apart from anything else, the council tax payers would go ape!

Wakefield council arent paying for the stadium

Aren't they putting any money into either stadium at all? If not, they will still need to give them planning permission won't they?

there will be some money input for the baths i believe, but basically it will be a private initiative, Outline planning is in place and the final design will be rubber stamped,

, link ? as in pictures of steel,concrete,bricks and polish workers ?

These pictures to have Xscape in the backround

Flattening land ready for the foundations constitutes as work starting on the site

stop smoking them funny fags

They started doing that in 2003 , how long is it taking , get some JCB's instead of paddies and spades

There was something like a 20 page ' discussion ' with Smokey on the VT about whether ' plans ' were part of the process of ' building ' a couple of years back



Till we can see some seats there is nothing



And on the subject of seats , did the RFL change the rul

No idea, guess it would depend on any number of factors - cost of the stadium for instance.

By God, you're fecking tiresome, like a stuck record. Leigh didn't get into SL, get over it and take your conspiracy/paranoid theories with you.

Not me , you on the other hand

I thought the flattening of the land was paid for by English heritage to get rid of a load of contaminated spoil,not for the new ground.

You really need to think

before you open your mouth, that way you dont leave yourself open to comments that will once again disrupt the thread

No i dont! am just pointing out that the only team that will gain out of any ground share will be wakey, since you have already sold BV and spent most of it!!

No. The bottom line is there is no location anywhere which would be agreeable to both parties. For Castleford, it has to be IN Castleford, but for Wakefield that's unacceptable so we left deadlocked. No matter how cleverly you design the interior or split the functionality, the bottom line is we'd never ever agree on where to build it.


As I understand it, it was Wakey's hope that the Council would build them a stadium west of the city centre but (again, as I understand it) it has never been the case that Castleford's stadium would be paid for with public money. The Tigers have done a deal with WMDC which allows the Council to incorporate a number of facilities [uwhich they would have had to provide anyway[/u into the design of the new stadium, but that is quite different from the Council financing our stadium. Ultimately it actually [isaves[/i the Council money rather than costing them.

Let's be under no illusions here. While Wakey have ummed an ahhed over Durkar, Ossett, Thornes Park and god knows what else, Castleford have been quietly working away on the Glasshoughton Project. Years of work is now nearing fruition for Cas, and there is no way on earth that they will walk away from it at this stage, purely to back Wakey's proposed dream at Stanley.

So please, once and for all.... drop it.