yeah i know that, just feel both teams are being pushed in to a situation wherby independantly they cannot survive in SL, neither clubs finances seem rosey at present and thats without rentals of stadiums etc etc, like you i just dont know anymore, hence the question.

sad times, but at present im just disgruntled with SL and the system, not with fev, wakey, cas, or for that matter dewsbury or batley, think what im finding is super league is not what I loved, I loved rugby league. (I want to stand in grounds and chat to opposition fans, not shout at them from 40 metres away as well ).

Dont think ive seen anyone put it better

I am an outsider(Saints fan) but mergers will never work.
But I think that Cas and Wakey can share a stadium together with a capacity of around 15,000.

It's Cas or nothing for me, whether it's in a new stadium in Superleague at Xscape or in NL at the jungle.
The blinkered people running (maybe that should be ruining) our game seem to have a hidden agenda to remove ourselves and Wakey from the top tier of the game, God only knows why, but it sadly appears to be the case.

Where did the word merger enter the situation? I thought this was all about a groundshare. I don't know the local geography of your area however if one of the sites is roughly equidistant between Wakefield and Castleford realistically what is the problem? To secure enough funding to build a stadium, let alone 2 is difficult at the best of times, with the current economic situation is prooving impossible. If the funding is available to groundshare surely that is better than the out of date grounds both teams have now and the probable loss of franchise for both teams which would probably result without a staduim on the horizon.

FWIW i strongly disagree with any merger as they NEVER work. But if Inter and AC milan can, Roma and Lazio can i'm sure Wakefield and Castleford can.

I have no problem with it. Aslong as it is at NEWMARKET

Becuase the rfl have wanted the teams to merge for a long time and if we ground share theres a good chance they will use it to try and force a merger.

Ac and inter wont be sharing much longer, they've decided they cant live together after all and one of them is moving out. Plus they have the advantage that there both in milan so as long as the stadium was built in milan there was no problem, the only real nuetral location for cas and wakey is normanton, but theres no suitable land to build on there and even if there was its too late now.

So if the RFL want to merge 2 teams why not the 2 Hull clubs. Two clubs in one city cannot be the ultimate vision of the RFL.

As a Wakey fan it looks to me Wakey are shafted either way here. Glasshoughton (I've been there a couple of times) is brilliant, would be a great matchday experience that IMO could be the best in Super League. I live in Filey so it wouldn't matter to me personally if the Stadium was at GH or NM as I don't live around there. However I doubt Wakey fans would bother going to Cas to watch Wakey, and without those fans going, it would be pointless TBH.

I've read through hundreds of pages of this topic now and it looks like NM is dead in the water as much as my fellow Wakey fans clutch at straws with talk of Oakwell and the like. However the stumbling block here from what I've read is Cas could do with Wakey on board to get bricks laid.

TBH its a crap situation for both of our clubs and I feel sorry for both sets of supporters involved but as far as I can see Wakey will be getting the short straw at the end of the day. If wakey cease to exist then thats that, I will go and watch Sheffield Wednesday a bit more.

I could go on and on and round and round in circles about this topic, but whats the point? What will be will be ATEOTD. Good luck to Cas, but by the looks of things my club are doomed

well they might as well merge widnes as well with saints

Lets get on with building at GH and if Wakey had anything about them they could move in with us until the money world gets some where back to normal then they can do 1 and get there own ground sorted..keeping both teams in super league should be are main reason to share. Dont need ooh i wont go there cos its cas just get on until you get some where u can build ur own....

Just what I said about Newmarket - the money is there, we just need the council to stop playing politics with planning permission. As it's not Trin's stadium, Cas can tag along until their money is sorted out and their own stadium built without feeling that they are playing in their rivals stadium.

What it boils down to is we need PP, but not more money, you need the money that WMDC ain't got UNLESS they go back on their promise to Trin. Neither of us can afford to wait, but if Box is playing poker with Trinity he needs to be careful, cos the mood amongst Wakey fans is to call his bluff and re-locate to Barnsley (if they'll have us) rather than play in Cas Tigers stadium. If Wakey move to Cas we're doomed, 'cos the units will get built anyway just a year or two later and without the need to 'chuck in' a stadium as a sweetener. If Cas shack up with Wakey for a year or two there's every chance your lack of money will sort itself out - plus it'll give you time to sort out the compulsory purchase you desparately need for the access routes.