What land are you referring to ? Belle Vue does not belong to us so he couldn't have that. I believe now that Tillion are in receivership it now belongs to the Bank of Ireland who provided the mortgage and has 1st charge on it. I think we are paying rent to the receiver of Tillion to play there this season.

I'm glad Wakefield have been rescued. Hopefully onward and upwards for your club.

I want Wakefield in Super League

I wonder if he was interested in buying Belle Vue off the Bank of Ireland.

He wouldn't need the club for that though.

Thanks for the support russ, its nice to know good feeling for this old clubs still around.

Don't want to go through this again-EVER.

In all probability Steve Parkin will have pulled out because of the inability of the RL to give assurances that the club will survive the franchise. Which leaves him with the decision of whether to buy a lottery ticket or not. Remember there will still be only one club receiving a contract in 3 years time as well and I'm sure Toulouse,Halifax, Leigh and maybe a Cumbrian club will also be pushing hard. We have had 10 years feeding at the top table and if we leave it could be a good while until we eat there again. We have one hope left and I'll let you guess on that !!!!

thanks for the happy post, made great reading. some people just love doom and gloom.

thanks mr glover , a real star. onward and upward. see you all tomorrow.

in cautiously welcoming Andrew to the club... my feeling - watching from 13000 miles away - is actually one of dissapointment. The resaon,? I felt the wealth of Parkin and his associates... where perhaps the only thing that could win us a franchise, for superleague...

I feel like we almost signed Wally Lewis but got Geoff Bagnall. (I hope you understand the analogy, i dont wish to denegrade either Glover or Bagnall)... once we lose the franchise I dont believe we will it get back... ever! maybe that was Parkins view also?


good luck Andrew I hope you work miracles.

Yeah ... but we could of been Blackpool !

ok... here's the problem. Christ, I hate doing this but there are more questions than answers here.

is Andrew Glover paying off all the debt?

If so why wait til it goes into administration to do this - there's no business sense is doing this

If he's not paying off all the debt and is going through the administration process, to get the best deal and accept a percentage, then surely the administrators should be announcing the new owners and also the creditors should be voting on whether they accept the reduced amount.

Am I missing something here, once the administrators have been announced then surely the dealings should be through them, not the website.

I guess what I'm asking is how finalised is this deal?

welcome mr Glover thank you for keeping the club alive.like other posters i would like to ask if you could get a couple of players to stregthen the team to give us a fighting chance.trinity forever

Welcome and thank you Mr.Glover,now let us do the 1960's again.

thats the fear I would hate to see us playing National League in front of 1200 diehards with little or no hope playing micky mouse comps like the Northern Rail Cup
But for now today will do lets now hope we can get some players in and some deadwood out

Just done a raft of interviews on behalf of the Wakefield Trinity Supporters Trust and then driven down to Cardiff so I haven't had the chance yet to say welcome to the club Andrew.

I know you've been involved for a while as a sponsor and that members of your family are involved as well but taking the step to own the club at this time of crisis will emotionally attach you to Wakefield Trinity like nothing else you will ever have experienced before.

There'll be some hard times ahead and some tough decisions to be made but as long as you have the best interests of the club at heart, which I believe you do, the fans will follow your lead and have faith in the decisions you make.

No ones expecting overnight miracles, a couple of days maybe, but I genuinely feel that the club has turned a corner with your ownership, here's to a return of the good times.

I don't know whether we've turned a corner now or not. I'll wait and see what our new owner delivers. But I genuinely feel this is the time for a supporters' trust, and one with board representation at that.

I'm glad the initial part of this sorry episode has been resolved though.

From reading some of the posts on this thread , there is the suggestion that your new owner posts and reads this board , if that is the case , then I would like 5 minutes of his time , if you read this mr Glover , take a , chance pm , me , what have you got to lose ?

5 minutes of his time.

Mr Glover....

If you change your mind, I’m the first in line
Honey I’m still free
Take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you’ve got no place to go, if you’re feeling down...

Take a chance on Leigh...

woo-hoo!


Went to bed last night thinking this episode would drag out into next week and without a guaranteed positive outcome.
Very relieved this morning.
Welcome on board the rollercoaster.
Good luck; you'll need it!

Congratulations & Good Luck Guys

Don't know the answers but its nice of a Cas fan to show concern.

Cheers, relieved we can move on

It's a nice feeling waking up in Cardiff with new owners, it means now we can all just focus on rugby.

In the style of Kevin Keegan "Id just love it if we beat Cas today"

Hopefully now to strengthen the squad a little and have as good a season on the pitch as we can. Make it as difficult as possible for the rfl to get rid of us, even with the points deduction.

Right now its a verbal agreement meaning the deal has not been finalised so the administrators will not be announcing it. I suspect Mr Glover has revealled the news as a boost to the club before the season started rather than letting it drag on over the weekend.