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Quote: Fully "Congratulations for posting a small summary, which reinforces what I've said.

"are to a degree" and "proposed". To a degree implies that not all of the application was based on a new stadium but we illustrated the projections that we felt we could achieve should the new stadium go ahead.

"Proposed" - A mooted idea put forward but by no means guaranteed.

As I said, the new stadium was always based on us self-funding it and not relying on handouts from councils. The economy crashed in 2007 (care to remember), which meant that the land was no longer sufficient enough for housing as it wouldn't provide enough cash for us.

There was a blast licence in place from Hicksons which had to be removed before any application could be made for Wheldon Rd and this took several years to remove from our council.

And then, when we arranged for a supermarket to buy the stadium, their focus changed meaning that they were no longer willing to commit to buying the land at a speed we needed.

There have been a lot of factors outside of our control with the new stadium but only the naïve would accept that this was the ONLY criteria determining licences in Super League. I understand to an extent your bitterness but take a look at your club 3/4 years ago and be honest - did it really have the infrastructure in place to overtake someone like Cas (if I remember rightly you didn't have an academy?). Never in my book.

In fact, why don't we look at the good of Cas - our youth production? Our limited reliance on overseas players in comparison to other clubs...oh, and the fact we haven't got into financial issues unlike Bradford, Wakefield, London and Salford..

Never mind. Apologies for the thread drift but this 'you lied'+'stadia misconception' really gets on my goat from people who haven't a foggiest.'"

Sorry but this is what the hated Licence system creates, our annoyance is with the system as it creates lies and deceit at worst and at best a manipulation of the facts by SL clubs while Championship clubs have to stick to the rules or else.
Fat Controller has total control so clubs like Cas say what he wants to hear and that ticks the box, regards Academies you may not know this but at our level there is no money to run one and I believe the RFL don't let clubs outside SL run one anyway as believe it or not we get rock all from the RFL (the Premier Sports TV deal is of no financial benefit) so this means it is an unfair comparison.
Anyway good luck for next season and hopefully we will be joining you in SL in the near future.