www.engagesuperleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16341 another club potentially on the edge for getting a 2012 franchise....

www.engagesuperleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16341 another club potentially on the edge for getting a 2012 franchise....

Is anyone really suprised?

Give over, it's not good and you know it - either that or you're in denial.

My personal opinion is that you will be with us at Stanley - it's just a case of waiting for Mr Wright to accept reality.

If thats the case you best both be vying for top 8 each year with your junior train continuing.

Or further afield until the new stadium is ready.
I don't see anything wrong with phasing construction, it means the club are operating out of a new facility, if just under minimum standards with respect to capacity, which, as long as the other aspects of the license stack up, shouldn't stop them getting a new license.

So we now have clubs being totally uneccessarily put under extreme pressure to comply with barmy criteria

Fit for purpose and safe is all that should be required

Working toilets with a sink would be nice, anything else, bonus.
But I can see the reasoning behind the criteria. I think they're fair, if you want to redevelop like Catalans, Odsal, Kr, Headingly you can

=#8000FFNot really, I am not bothered by it one bit at all, there's an RFL approved plan B and 2 sides of a new stadium is still better then nothing.

There's no new news in this, Richard Wright has said before that it would be a phased construction. Just a journo with an agenda raking up old stories on the media day.

building two sides and then leaving the ends is putting them in exactly the same position as HKR.

It's also how the McAlpine was built.

Certainly a lot different from what you were continuously claiming last all last year!

Whilst not a disaster its obviously not great for Cas and I agree with Vastman in that I can see in a few months time Cas announcing that they will end up sharing the ground with Wakefield.

As for the license critera, I dont think its too ridiculous to expect your top tier clubs to have a half-decent stadium.

Why shouldn,t clubs who still play in ancient dumps in the year 2010 be under pressure to deliver stadiums they have talked about for a long time?it,s not like they are expected to build a replica of the San siro anyway.

Widnes also completed their stadium in phases. It was almost 10 years between the erection of the North and South Stands until the East Stand was finally built.

I just wonder if two stands, which will take Cas close to 11k, will be accepted by the RFL.

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So as long as say Cas build something better than Wheldon Rd [ not hard really



although I like the place it should not affect their licence place , so a 2 stand new development would fit the bill , to set an arbitary 12,000 capacity is silly really [ and I have for several years teased Cas fans for the RFL changing the rules on the number of seats required in SL to let you back in in 2006 '"

No , you are getting confused , that was to increase your overall capacity by 2,000 to 12,000



You still dont have the required number of seats that clubs had to have back in 2005

one idiot cas fan told me i was wrong when i said the club hadnt secured funding for the ground yet

it shows the lies people tell on here to defend their club and why it makes it harder to work out whats going on

cas are safer as their greater crowds mean wakey are the ones who will go

both clubs needs to pool resouces and build a commonly owned ground

both clubs have money from their current grounds, plus a joint bid would be easier to get approval from council as its not just favouring one club over the other

stupid RFL trying to grow the sport by putting pressure on clubs to improve grounds

the future of RL should be decided on who wins the Championship GF

The Cas ground has planning permission, the Wakey one will have it this year, what is there to approve?

Oh, and clearly Cas don't have money from their current ground, as that is the reason why the funding has fallen - due to the land being earmarked for housing. The ground being in a blast zone and the economic climate do not help pull in developers to go through with the ground purchase...

neither club can finance one on their own

a joint ground will be easier to finance.

cas ground is still worth something isnt it? they will have funds to contribute

and a joint ground will be easier to get council money as its not favouring 1 club over the other

a joint ground makes so much sense

and thats why it wont happen

So which Sydney clubs have paid to improve or build new facilities ?

As others have said - not much new here. This article www.castigers.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi?194_7314 from the Cas website dated December 11th states the build may be done in phases. Also what was interesting in that interview with Wright was that he stated a developer would be chosen and plans released to the public at some point before Christmas. Maybe more worrying was that he also he went as far to say the once they have full planning permission they could start gthe build - If they are ready to do so - doesn't sound too definite to me.

As others have said - not much new here. This article www.castigers.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi?194_7314 from the Cas website dated December 11th states the build may be done in phases. Also what was interesting in that interview with Wright was that he stated a developer would be chosen and plans released to the public at some point before Christmas. Maybe more worrying was that he also he went as far to say the once they have full planning permission they could start gthe build - If they are ready to do so - doesn't sound too definite to me.