Another rumour, and I know there are so many and so many are rubbish but I heard this today.
The RFL are offering Wakefield 250,000 to go into National League for 2012.

If there is any truth it is disgusting!
Keeping Harlequins in and paying us out.
We have been in the play-offs and haven't been relegated out since we came in.
There are other teams less deserving of a place than us.
Comments please and dont shoot the messenger

if they offer that del boy and rodney will snap their hands off

they get better these rumours, do like I do and ignore them

So if we played cas in the so called million pound game ! why should we except £250,000

Heard this a while ago from some Cas fans in Ryhill, they had heard on the grapevine, would be rather ironic if it turned out to be true.



On field playing matters are not high up the list anymore.

Cos we are more skint now than we were then, sadly, maybe.

must say i heard the same rumour myself monday that we had agreed too a parachute payment too drop down a division

Why on earth would we do this just at the time when we are awaiting a result of the most important day in the clubs history?



Absolute bunkum!

because we are skint no potential backer coming forward and teds the chairman

Lock it or delete it,

It would make no economic sense whatsoever, particularly in the same season that we would be moving into a new ground. On pure attendances alone, that would be 4,166 tickets a year at £20 each to break even over three years, ie, we would have to have an attendance drop of less than 400 a game over three years on gate receipts alone to be in profit (and that is maintaining a £20 admission in the Championship). That is ignoring Sky money, commercial sponsors, pie and beer money.

It sounds like complete tosh when you look at the sums.

Why would the RFL pay that much to a side they could just remove for nothing for the very same season anyway? Doesn't make sense either way to me.

That's as good a reason as mine!

If it is true the club should go public and say this is how corrupt the game has become. That'd ruffle a few feathers!

Not sure how it would work if we've accepted the money!

Just a question but any chance could be the other way around? Wakey finding it hard to run at SL level and build stadium so offered the RFL an easy option at a price to drop out save money, build ground and come back stronger with fresh investment?

250K for an "easy option"? No, I can't see any chance it could be the other way round.

Unfortunately it wouldnt ruffle any feathers at all, The RFL have an agenda and neither you or us at Cas are welcome at the top table, If they thought they could get away with it, they would relegate both of us this time , but i fear thay will do in phases.

Forcing new grounds on clubs that cant afford it is one way to get rid, by either forcing them out of business or by the club admitting that its just not feasable, unfortunately we both have chairmen prepared to risk the future of our clubs just to stay as makeweights in the bent superleague.

Been saying it since before the idiotic franchise system and its nice to see people cottoning on at last

good luck to ya

They certainly want one of us out and I do not think they are too bothered which one, unless we both get a high profile backer like Widnes of course. Time will tell I suppose as for the good luck I fear we might need in buckets full.

Not trying to add fuel to the fire and I hope it's all nonsense because it stinks, however a Halifax fan told me over a week ago now that the RFL had offered a 'parachute payment' to Wakey. No sums mentioned.

Was more on basis Wakey think are gone anyway but try to get something out of it by stepping in early? Just speculation of course. If RFL wanted to send Wakefield or anyone else for that matter down they could no problem so why would they hand over 250k for no apparent reason?

What a load of nonsense.

If we get a successful outcome next Friday why would we be looking at NL1. If we don't then we probably don't have much of a future and will be gone anyway so why should the RL offer any payment.

Where do people dream these up from.

If it were true (& IMO I very much doubt it is) an offer of £250k is ridiculous when you consider the handouts the RFL has made in that past to Hull/Gateshead & Sheffield/Hudds each of which was at least a million quid. Add to that the countless attempts of the RFL to make life as difficult as possible for Wakey from a financial pespective when we first got into SL and £250k doesn't come close enough.

I'll indulge whoever started the rumour a little and say that in the event that the RFL want to get Wakey to agree to not having a franchise for 2012-2014 the MINIMUM acceptable offer would be for the RFL to pay WT £3.6m (3 years Sky money), allow WT to retain a SL salary cap & guarantee a franchise from 2015.

As has already been said by others the factor that will have the greatest impact on the club's future comes this from the planning committee this week. If the outcome doesn't go our way then weve got bigger things to worry about than our future in SL.

According to one of the academy players on Facebook Dale Ferguson's KD is 0.87 on 'COD - world at war.'

On a more serious note aren't bribes illegal in sport?

Yes all forms of bungs are illegal. If this were to happen they should force the RFL into an agreement providing we tick the boxes next time we are guaranteed a place in superleague. But i guess we probably won't think of that.