What's the acronym for " Our backup plan is we are going to renovate our current ground that we don't even own?"

Whats Cas' back-up plan because you aren't going to be playing at Glasshoughton in this round of franchises.

No we're not - that would imply being there before the end of this season.

Ok, my bad. You won't be playing at GH in the NEXT round of franchises. Maybe the last year if your very lucky but I promise you, the whole planning saga will drag on and on.

If we dont get a stadium in the next 3 years then the 2015 franchise wont be given to us, simple as. Imo
Infact i still feel very nervous about this franchise.

Well the official line from the club is 2013 and regardless of your 'promise', you don't offer any kind of evidence to back it up. Would you, perhaps, be a Wakefield fan?
Despite what the 'official line' is from the club, the best both Cas and Wakey can reasonably expect is to be in new grounds in the start of 2014. They could both possibly finish towards to the middle/back-end of the 2013 season, so maybe if one or both were looking good for a play-off spot, that might be a good time to move in early maybe? Otherwise, I don't see the point of getting in a few months earlier.

I will give you an evidential path shall I! Despite what the clubs official line is, is differs from the proposed time-frame given to the various consultants by Opus is! Opus have to them to work to planning being submitted in October 2011 and they are going to push for a decision by February/March 2012 at the earliest! I think that is ambitious but lets say they get there. I think they would look to be starting on site at GH (not WR) within 2/3 months of planning being granted (despite this, starting as soon as permission is granted, you won't get anyone on site in less than a 12 week lead-in) . So that sees them on site by mid-summer 2012, with a 50+ week programme that see them finishing a year later. So, yes 2013, but half way through it at best. So, might be worth moving in before the play-off's but if not, better starting a new season at a new home?

Now, of course, this assumes that everything goes to plan! Interestingly, the time-frame issued to the Opus team is flagging up the possibility of an appeal.... or, you guessed it a PI! They have said six months for this, which again is slightly ambitious but possible.

Does that stack-up do you think?

Apart from the fact that detailed planning application is due for August 2011.

Simply quoting publically available information rather than saying "he said - she said" or divulging information from a source that other people cant chalenge.

I do wish IA would jog on, like a broken record.


I don't think I've ever read a rugby related post by him.

I am simply posting information that has been given to me from a credible source. The Opus time scale sent to the consultants working on the scheme says October, sorry!

I might even have a draft site proposal plan... but because I can't send it you, you can't verify that either!

You keep talking as if we all believe everything you have to say, you have told us some tale which just happens to suit your agenda, you have not provided any evidence about what took place in this meeting.

Now go on give us some long winded reply about how you want cas to have a stadium just as much as wakey, then go back to the wakey board and tell them all how everything is going well for them and that all the best possible timescales will be achieved for them (like you told them they wouldn't go to PI) and then come back on here and tell us everything will go wrong for us and say we should be campaigning hard to keep wakefield in sl (strange you dont seem to be encouraging them to support castlefords franchise bid like you keep telling us we should do for them).

If if it is a choice between listening to the club or listening to you i think i will listen to the club thanks.

If it were upto me we would we would both be in sl but it is going to come down one of us going down and nothing short of the welsh going bust is going to change that.

and you might have 7 legs and 23 eyes.

If your going to say you know better than people who are actually involved in this prove it or as has been said jog on.