Why?I would have thought he hasn't told them anything they didn't already know and what he says isn't going to be the difference between it being built and not.

Full planning is needed first but yes once that is granted, if the current PI approves the outline scheme, then the funding is in place for building work to start.

Castleford's head coach's hatred for Wakefield is obviously mirrored by the numpty chairman.

Cas changed their mind and will issue a response in regards to Rw letter tomorrow. Me thinks they'll be up all night ting bricks, thinking how to get out of this with any credibility. Alternatively will this statement be used in favour of the development of teu state they support us getting a new stadium @ Newmarket to help local community including their people.

Interesting times indeed.

Think they need PR guru now!

So what's with the MASSIVE over reaction on here to someone confirming things he was asked to confirm?

There is no objection there, he is merely stating things that has been out in public for over a year now. Some of the comments on here are totally OTT and utterly ridiculous...I wonder if this website will be hearing from the clubs legal team for some of the comments made

Legal team.Who's that 'Luppy' the groundsman !!!

You can spin it however you want mate, the guys dropped a right bollock with this and imo he knew full well of the implications of what he was doing.

Take the amber and black glasses off and look at what he's actually trying to do.

He's done nothing wrong at all.

He was asked to confirm the story about the feasibility study and if Wakefield would be able to share at Glasshoughton, he confirmed both of these that's that.

Massive over reaction by the Wakefield fans on this and you're trying to turn nothing into something for no reason at all.



No he hasn't, he was asked to provide facts he gave facts. There is no implications either - as someone else said it will have no effect on the outcome.

If Newmarket does not pass, it isn't because of RW it's because the project wasn't feasible or legal under planning guidelines.

If they had a legal team, he wouldn't have said what he said.

I haven't read anything that could be seen as a legal issue. No one has accused him of doing anything apart from supporting the objections for our new stadium. All people are saying is that we don't see why he needs to be involved and by getting involved he is picking the opposite side to us, which we don't think is appropriate for the Chairman of Cas.
He is starting a war (of words) that really would have been better left alone.
Even if his letter has no effect, no one will forget this and it will be an issue at every Cas/Wakefield game from now on and he'll probably find ill advised supporters of Wakefield trying their best to derail the Cas plans in retaliation.
He would have been better just saying nothing.....but he chose not to.

When was the green light given for the Glasshoughtin build to commence. I seem to have missed that 1.

Yes, we'll be hearing from their legal team in due course, I'm sure.

Alternatively, his actions against our club have been commented on by members of the public. Weren't you trying to defend a "member of the public's" right to have a say a minute ago? Your lack of a solid argument is almost as staggering as your lack of morality.

The thing is not whether you believe what you're writing or if you think RW is right or not in what he's done, the real crux of the matter is how is this perceived by the wider rugby community.

The perception whether you belive it or not is RW is trying to stop Wakefields stadium and is throwing his weight behind a no bid, defend his position all you want but it doesn't stop the rugby community uniting together to think RW is underhand and no friend of rugby league.

He could have kept quiet or took a back seat but actually chose to root himself right in the middle of the issue, he's fully aware of the power he wealds and so are the campaigners otherwise they wouldn't have approached him, are you really so one-eyed and naive to think he isn't trying to go against Wakefield.

Wakefield want their own stadium, they don't want to share with Castleford is that too hard to understand, i'm sure Wakefields board have possibly the same concerns as RW but have to chose to rise above it and show a bit of class.

I'm surprised you haven't added

Well done Richard










It's about the only thing you can get out the Cas board when you dare go against the grain, i used to like Cas, always had a soft spot for them, but this leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

.....and to be honest, if his letter made a difference, and we lost the chance of this stadium......is anyone at Wakefield likely to support a move to Glasshoughton now?
Think the other choices would be used first.

A sad and desperate act from a sad and desperate little man.

Are Cas not currently against a development gaining a renewal on its planning permission in Cas town cente and are currently having fans object against it as it could well scupper their chances of a supermarket ever been built on WR. Maybe we should all write in support of the development. Eye for an eye and all that. Thats how petty and pathetic this has become.

You could always share with Rovers

No, HTH.

People of the town and Tescos have objected to the plans by Edinburgh house because they are both unfeasible (Tesco outline why) and would get rid of much needed town centre parking to accommodate for a Supermarket that no operator wants to use due to its size and location.

The club have nothing to do with those objections.

It's only become silly and pathetic too because you're blindly following the words of SWAG etc when in fact if you look at it clearly, RW only replied with facts that have been in the public domain for over a year, you're using this because you have nothing else to use.

As anyone got the actual wording of this letter.

I havent seen anything yet in reguards the wording.

So until i do i'll hold fire on condeming anyone.

A very sensible reply! I do hope Gronk reads this, as he seems to know everything and everyone

RW didn't makes comments in the press a couple of weeks ago against the EH development then? Sounding very much like a thinly veiled rallying call to me.

RW should have declined to comment about the development plans of a fellow RL club, end of.

Does the wording really matter, although if you read this thread back it is available.

What matters is why he even bothered to reply. He wasn't required to, considering the situation wouldn't anyone other than a mischief maker just politely decline?

Including Peter Gentle.

What the Castleford coach!

That's the man.

Exactly, unless the letter is positve about NM, which if he was approached by the NO campaigners you can safely say it isn't, then he is actively getting involved in putting a spanner in the works of wakefield.

Even if he has said something that is already public domain, he could have just not said nothing instead.