Revenues from a supermarket > revenues from selling housing?
Cost of building a supermarkey < cost of building housing site?
Ben Bailey given cheaper price for hopefully a quicker completion?
Multiple supermarkets interested driving up the price?

I have no idea!

That is my conclusion, it must be either one of- or a combination of all those things, it just seems to me that the value increasing ten-fold is rather extreme! (Not that I'm complaining about it!)

The question now is, what do we do with that extra money?

Personally I'd be disappointed if we didn't build some leading training facilities to continue helping to develop the local talent we have.

On a more hopeful note, I'd love to see the money subsidise a cheap season ticket deal (like Bradford's) for the first season in the new ground. It would be great to get the ground full every week and attract some new people to the sport. With the location at Glasshoughton, it seems like a perfect opportunity to try and sell every ticket in the place for every game of the season.

Just noticed the open letter now on the same link, sure it wasn't there earlier

I don't want to put a dampner on things guys but I very much doubt this deal will be worth £50m to the club.



Reading the above quote from the article, I'd assume the overall development would be valued at £50m and only a portion of this would be paid to the club for purchase of the land.

Guys, bless... you are not getting £50m!

The 'deal' is worth £50 means that this the deal Opus are putting together for the site. To put it simply, the potential development 'cost/investment' for the whole site is anticipated to be around £50m! Cas will get the best possible commercial sale value of the land they can as part of this deal. So maybe £6m + but I also understand there are some outstanding charges on the land that will reduce this figure. RW is appears fairly certain that this value will cover the funding shortfall to complete the stadium in one go when the deal gets through!

Don't get carried away guys!

IA please already you have devalued our project to £50 i hate you

I agree i always read it that the development was £50 million not the land lol

Agreed, I think the site is a good option for a Supermarket and also, as you say, future housing plans for the area means that they would be investing in a site that was going to grow it's local customer base over time.

So you're the first to complain when anyone says anything to you, but you can be patronising? I'd tell Sky sports News if I were you, they are saying the land is sold for £50m

As for the bit the club have added, it sums up the situation perfectly, in every facet the club beat Wakey hands down

Oh and mods (or anyone who knows) why is the site so slow this morning?

I noticed that. I assumed it was the hoardes logging on to the internet to read about Cas.

No idea - it may be a server problem or something.