www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... n-triangle

www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... n-triangle

Well we wont be seeing a new ground at Newmarket anytime soon, Leeds MDC have put spanner into that (I've had that from officialdom too, not the club) so if we dont talk about a ground share we can enjoy trips to Barrow from 2012 onwards.

What exactly have you heard?

Would a merger be that bad???

A merger is the logical way forward, bring together the people of the Wakefield district and start competing with the bigger clubs... we would get decent crowds, better players and more chance of silverware.

Now in reality, a good number of people will stop going in we move to Cas (me included), the gates may get a little better for Cas Wildcats but the identity of both clubs will die.

Maybe we could do a Wimbledon and have the people on this board as the new clubs board.. Trinity Wildcats would be at Wembley within 5 years.

Yes, for both clubs.

I have been watching Wakey for 25 years now since i was five years old, most of those years have been battling relegation and survival. I have seen the Yorkshre cup win, first division grand final and reached the play off twice, i think thats it. Even if we get a new stadium i just can not see us being able to compete with Leeds, Wigan and Saints.

Wakey, Cas and Fev are all too close together and fight for the scraps of players that have not been snapped up by the Rhinos. If these three were to merge a united club may have greater pulling power, ability to draw a big crowd (not by some of the old timers) but younger kids, therefore commercial success and ability to challenge for honours.

We have to move forward and i am starting to think that a merger would be the only way!

For the supporters of today? Yes.

Where ever the team was based it would be seen as another form of that club, alienating supporters from the other club/s. See Huddersfield and Hull for example.

There is also a possibility that if no supporters took to the new club it wouldn't last long enough for the next generation of potential supporters to come through.

=#8040FFThem mergers were never going to work, and I don't think they were intended to either, Huddersfield & Sheffield is a fair distance away from each other and Hull/Gateshead were just called Hull and played in Hull, both mergers were done for the million pound RFL payout to stop Hudds & Hull going bust.

Yes Glasshoughton in Castleford would be the most central, definitely!!

If it was in Glasshoughton then it wouldn't be a merger, it would be a takeover by Cas.

I can see it being bad just look at Inter and AC Milan. just get everyone in the same stadium

=#8000FFIt's close to Fev and a few miles away from Newmarket so yes, it would

and it's by far and away the best location commercially with Xscape across the road as well as J32.




=#8000FFNo it wouldn't

it'd be a brand new team, with a new name that play in a location close to all 3 original teams

Quite frankly i could not care less where it was. I was born in Wakey but live in Donny now so have to travel anyway. Glasshoughton nearer for me by a massive two junctions!



I want to see a competitive side, im sick of turning up each week and walking away peed off. We cant match the bigger sides and never will untill we get 15k through the turnstyles every week, or like Shudds and Wire we find a sugardaddy.

No for me it would not its called progress and we should have gone with Featherstone back in 95

If we want SL after 2012 its our only chance we are skint the stadium drags on and on time is running out and we will still be bloody skint if we get it
What hope have we got when we cant even get 7000 V Wigan with half price on the gate

High time for all 3 clubs and the fans to wake up and smell the coffee the fact is no SL = NO WAKEFIELD TRINITY

The Wigan crowd was really poor, even with the weather considered, i was hoping 10k plus for that. The folk of Wakey, do not seem to be bothered!

Wakefield to Glasshoughton 10.72 miles
Featherstone to Glasshoughton 3.82 miles
Castleford to Glasshoughton 1.60 miles

Very central!!

I would suggest Normanton/Sharlston is the best place for a centrally located team.

=#8000FFIt is for 2 teams



Anyway, a quick plan for the merged team:

Sale price of BV, POR & the Jungle would give the team millions
£1m from the RFL for merging
Council would be more willing to chip in on a stadium for one team
Sky money

that makes the team VERY rich and able to spend the full salary cap room, added to fact a new stadium would add to gates, the bloke who's running Fev now should be in charge because he's the best Chairman of the 3.




=#8040FFThat would be better, but from a commercial aspect and planning permission aspect would using a site already penned down for a stadium be a better option? ideally Normy/Sharlston would be the best though, I agree.

Nail on head but folk dont like change fact is if we dont we may all have to look to Leeds Bradford Hull Or Hudds for our RL fix because our clubs will be long gone

Eventually in the words of the Highlander "there can be only 1" in my opinion playing in the SL, would a merger be the better option to Trinity going down to the first division? Probably not to most established fans.

I am personally of the opinion IF it comes to it and both are forced to share a stadium then a merger would be the best option, I would be happy to go watch a merged team in a shiny new stadium, but I think a lot of the traditionalist fans would stay away, so any new club would be living off relative scraps for a season or 2, but again are they both not already?!

Correct. Thats my opinion on that as well.

(Not that I agree with a merge, as I dont!)

Seeing as neither ground is anywhere near built, whichever could get built ASAP would be key, surely?

Normanton is the best bet for a 3 way stadium