Well first of all lets deal with the £2M . It did not take long for the council to worm their way out of that one and I am certain that will never materialise.

Secondly I can definitely say right from the outset the council stated that 106 PLANNING GAIN MUST NOT GO TO A PRIVATE COMPANY, ITS ILLEGAL.

That is the main reason the trust was formed as there was no way in law a stadium could legally be delivered from the NM planning gain,other than it being gifted to a trust.

If we were told a load of Ballcocks back then, so be it .
If it was ballcocks, maybe they did not want the stadium to get into the hands of Ted, who knows ?

Sandal Cat may confirm the legalities.

So,both stadiums are up and running. ..
It's February and pitches are a bit heavy.
Case decide to save their privately owned pitch and play their academy games at Newmarket. They can do this, subject to rent and availability, because it's a community facility. The money goes to the community trust.
The local soccer team want to use the privately owned stadium at cas for their big cup game. Cas tell them to do one / set the rent to whatever they want and pocket the profits.
Any team in the district would be allowed to use the community stadium. Trinity would just be anchor tenants.

I had always thought that any benefits accruing from planning gain had to go to the public sector or community benefit. If I'm reading the Five Towns Park correctly Llateral have either gifted the stadium to Castleford Tigers Ltd for £1 (or whatever the privated company is called) without any pressure being applied by the Local Authority beacuse in my experience that what Developers do because they are all philanpropists. Or because the community is going to be allowed in the stadium its classed as a Community Stadium and therefore its accepable in planning terms.

However Castleford have pulled this off well done to them. I only wish someone was assisting the Wakefield & District Community Trust in the same way.

Why don't you and cas just share a stadium

Why don't the two Hull clubs share ? Its a non starter at Glasshoughton as that's in Castleford who would own the ground and Trinity would be poor relations.
On hindsight a venue between the two ie. Normanton should have been the answer , but that ship has now sailed.
People really ought to do their homework before throwing out flippant statements.

Certainly should, and the most sensible place to do that would be at a community owned stadium which is roughly equal distance between both clubs current grounds

That'd be the Newmarket development at Jct 30...

Cas Tigers are being given a stadium, why would Wakey want to move 10 miles from their current home to become second class citizens in another super league clubs own stadium. We'd be paying rent out with no means of stadium income and reduced gates which would make Wakey weaker and Cas stronger, I'd give Wakey 2-3 seasons before they completely folded if we move over to castleford, which means we probably wouldn't even make it into the new stadium.

Don't bite people.

Why don't you share with your more famous illustrious cousins, then the council could level your ground and put it to better use and build some affordable housing on it.

www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil Nice☺

www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil Nice☺

Excellent article. Shame it's only in the Daily Star!

Wow that's explosive.

We now need to get this trending on Twitter - I have no idea how to do that so if someone else could.

We need to get Box squealing like a pig so we need to build on this - Calendar or Look North need pointing towards this article as well. I'm sure it's in hand but great stuff.

A refreshing accurate article about our situation

I thought the same. Really good article but it loses a bit of credibility when it's surrounded by soft porn click bait and the like.

"Throughout this crippling tale of woe Wakefield Metropolitan District Council have watched this terminal decline and done absolutely nothing."

This is damning stuff - we should all take to Twitter to link that, and be sure to tag @MyWakefield - I'll do it now!

I've tagged in Look North, Calendar and The Wakefield express.

Come on everyone, link the article www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil And tag @mywakefield and @wakeexpress it's not hard to sign up to Twitter.

Come on everyone, link the article www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil And tag @mywakefield and @wakeexpress it's not hard to sign up to Twitter.

Good move. Hope someone takes notice.

Never been a fan of the Daily Star, but what an article!! Very accurately explained by Mr Cross. The account now needs to be elevated to the more "credible" Dailys and show the world how apathetic Box and co are to the sporting needs of Wakefield's (not just Castleford's) sporting public.

Very accurate indeed, I wonder how that happened

You sly monkey Vasty.

You sly monkey Vasty.

No it wasn't me, sorry I'm not that smart but I suspect somebody is

Quote ="Wakefield No 1"Come on everyone, link the article www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil And tag @mywakefield and @wakeexpress it's not hard to sign up to Twitter.'" I'm deadly serious here, what about West Yorkshire Police.

Quote ="Wakefield No 1"Come on everyone, link the article www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba ... tin-O-Neil And tag @mywakefield and @wakeexpress it's not hard to sign up to Twitter.'" I'm deadly serious here, what about West Yorkshire Police.

A neighbour of mine was planning on naking a complaint about the dis-service he has provided to the city of Wakefield in general straight to Whitehall.

On facebook now with loads of comments and from those Box and Cas fans talking of our plight, though a lot with no foundation.

if everyone keeps posting an item on this thread it will keep it an on-going topic and pick up more attention rather than dropping down the pecking order. The more people that read Jeremy Cross's article the more the content will be spread.
THIS IS A RALLYING CALL TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE TRINITY'S INTEREST AT HEART!!!