There aren't any bus services now - but 'specials' could run on match days. Could even ask Pinderfields if their staff car park (the one off Aberford Road, currently closed at weekends) could be used as a park & ride if parkings tight at the stadium.

Leeds City Council has just brokered a £40+ million deal for Leeds Rugby & Yorkshire Cricket so clearly it is within Wakefield Council's remit to do similarly for Wakefield Trinity - if there is the will!!

So our unfit for purpose stadium means the RFL won't allow us to play out of there any longer without solid plans for moving into a new one.
Wonder what they will make of this then?? [urlhttps://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/castleford-stadium-delayed/49796[/url

And I wonder at what point the Health and Safety officers will descend upon Wheldon Road to ensure it is safe to play in???

The political will is all that's being asked for - it's also what seems to be lacking

Quite frankly I think it is worse than Belle Vue.Access is terrible , with the one road, surely it has far less seating than Belle Vue , we have a better clubhouse and the back of our stand has not collapsed.But Sky are orgasmic over the atmosphere.

Also our floodlights have never caught fire

Although that could be because not enough of them are working to cause them to overheat

I'll have to take your word for it regarding the club house as they won't let us Cas fans in yours.

In Cats bar? I didn't realise away fans weren't allowed in? I though you just had to show your ticket to gain entrance, I've never been turned away and very rarely wear my colours.

Last game there was the first time its happened to us. No one allowed in Cas colours. Same in Con club.

Now this is the real mystery isn't it ? How come we are targeted for Health & Safety measures ...barriers floodlights etc when good old Cas don't seem to have any problems......walls falling down/ lights/stands catching fire and NOTHING is ever mentioned.

Right, it's obviously a Cas thing, maybe down to the animosity between supporters for the last few seasons?

So the Cas [delCommunity[/del grounds delayed, call me a cynic but thats were things historically start to unravel. Surprised Big Alf and Fully missed that one, maybe they'll pop along and give us an updated spin on things.

Think its the suspicious stains that appear on the furniture after a Cas visit

Yeah noticed that myself, they're both very noticeable by their absence since the BBC website reported the stadium build had been put back to 2020. Fully usually jumps in with facts and figures (in a TRB kind of way

), his only posts since the news have been planning and such, he actually seems to be avoiding the issue.

I take your general point but the Kcom is about 12 mins brisk walk from the city centre, 10 from the train station. Its definitely nearer than BV to Wakefield centre.

As I posted before, courtesy buses (ideally for the first couple of seasons)running from the city centre to Newmarket or ideally from Ossett, Normy, Crofton etc, if not sponsored for free just charging a nominal fee.It would I believe keep a little continuity after leaving BV, if people enjoy the experience they'll come back by whatever means.

I just very rarely frequent RLFANS (you may have seen the Cas forum on here is about as empty as our trophy cabinet across the last two decades).

But referring to your point, I've been posting on Casforum about the delays and the planning applications. Lateral have had to submit a few different applications, which has delayed it. I'm actually quite surprised this hasn't been reported as I feel it's caused more of a delay to the project than the archaeological stuff.

The first one was to resubmit the planning application in light of the retail market. They changed this to remove the supermarket element and to increase the retail offering. You may have seen a story probably 12 months ago whereby the submitted it and then had to withdraw it again, based on advice from the council.

This application was subsequently revised and resubmitted in the summer/autumn of last year, which then had to go through the whole rigmarole of being checked by various departments and external stakeholders. Not only this but Lateral responded and included any extra conditions (or funding for community incentives). This application also included a letter from a pension fund regarding the financial backing advising that if the changes weren't granted, it would make it problematic to obtain the necessary funding for the site. Needless to say this resubmission was passed and not called in again by the planning inspector.

Lateral have since then gone through and discharged numerous conditions from the planning application and submitted an application to discharge the vast majority of the rest a few months back. We're still awaiting a decision on this from WMDC.

All the planning applications have since stated a phased development starting in Spring (next month is the planned date) for the earthworks and site work. Then the roads and other preparatory works will be done, as well as the country park. Phase 3 is the stadium and phase 4 is the retail element. I expect that Reserved Matters applications will be submitted for the other elements sooner rather than later.

It is true that there was an issue with the archaeology but this has now been dealt with (the archaeology condition has been discharged along with a report).

Ok Fully, thanks for that, I did say it would be TRB like, why use one word when you can use a hundred!

Why take the short route?

Just checking and there's loads of fairly modern football stands not in use that we could move over to use at the Wakefield Community Stadium. Also looking at non league football clubs building tidy stadia look at FC United for example. Let's stick together and get Wakefield Community Stadium sorted.

Didnt someone mention on here a while ago that MC had been having conversations with one of the Neville footballing brothers regarding the stadium being built at Salford FC

My comment there wasnt suggesting were moving in with them.

Think he had been having talks about new stadia etc.

He was asking Neville who was constructing their new stand.