It wont stop Morrisons & Tesco wanting in because they're in Ponte, moving into Cas will give them more customers because I suspect some people go to Asda just because it's the closest.

Nothing is sorted yet whatever becomes of this...

Hope its positive but there's a long long way to go yet

the vast majority of us Wakefield fans will wish you well... except of course, when you play against us...

I really hope this works out for you!




Cas and Trinity (and Rovers for that matter) forever... sharing and merging... never!

It's not up to them. There's a law preventing the companies to have a huge supermarket in every town.... hence why i said Sainsburys. It's why we're seeing "Express" shops opening up all over the place as it's a loophole.

www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1353

www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1353

its the year of the TIGER... we should all and and give the ceo the and say to wheldon road and wakey

You have to applaud the club's determination in attempting to secure the best price for it's current assets and RW's honesty in explaining why the build has been delayed. If a slight delay means having the whole stadium built in one phase, I think that's a positive thing.

My interpretation on the article is that they're actively in the process of seeking planning approval for the scheme and that the agreement with the buyer is already in place, and presumably subject to the scheme being approved by the council.

Good news and hopefully this will move quite quickly now it's been announced.

Thanks for the background fella - that's very useful information.

As it stands Cas has only one major supermarket (ASDA) which is ludicrous for a population of around 40,000. Compare that with Selby (population of around 14,000) which has three major supermarkets and it would suggest this is something that Cas desperately needs.

I would hope that Opus is talking/has talked to more than one and, as you can imagine, Cas will get a better deal for the land if more than one is interested in the site.

And when you think about it, it's not actually a bad site for a supermaket. It's a similar size to the current ASDA site in Glasshoughton, including the parking area. Access to and from Wheldon Road is good - as it was the main access for the chemical plant, it's a big, wide road. Future planned developments are also likely to generate the need for a supermarket at that side of town too. I can't think of many reasons why more than one supermarket wouldn't be interested to be honest.

As a Wakey fan i would like to say that i hope it all works out for you.

rlCas selling ground for £50millionrl

Wow. Amazing if it comes off

£50m

That would not only pay for the stadium but a squad using the full salary cap for many years to come when added to an already profitable business, fantastic news - especially the comment about all the funding now being in place to build the whole stadium at the same time.

I might be stating the obvious but if Ben Bailey homes valued it at around £4.5m or whatever figure was touted on here, how does it now become "worth" £50m?
However it works, Cas have obviously done some great business here, and RW has done the right thing holding out to get an amount that allows us to build in one fell swoop. I'm sure fans will not have any objection to this delay realistically as it is clearly the best option.
Let's hope this boost keeps up the feel good factor at the club!