What a sad game RL has become if this is what we are reduced to, I really don't think IA is trying to troll, either way whoever stays up or go's down i really have fallen out of a game I have been in love with since my earliest memories to now 30+ years later, I can't see any of that passion returning whilst the game keeps with the current franchise system. It's a real sad state of affairs I'm afraid.

So I_A writes in a fashion that makes it sound factual although the only 'factual' element to it is that it's come from a 'credible source' with no concrete evidence supporting it.

Going to keep my powder dry but then people hear different things. I have no question that Opus would have pulled out had talks with the Council not gone their way.

The Council know that something will be built down there - Hicksons, The Jungle, Nestle and I think the Bus Depot are all going to get redeveloped. They are not going to have to pay a penny and any issues can be resolved. Think I_A may have got some info and exaggerated it tenfold to try and make it worse than it is.

Maybe I_A is a secret agent trying to undermine our licence bid?

I_A you cannot post something as though it is factual when you weren't there at all. And judging by what you've said your "source" wasn't either. So it sounds like a lot of hearsay.

Like I said, why would the Council turndown not just one piece but A LOT of inward investment. The whole of Wheldon Rd is going to be redeveloped and yes, in time, that could take a long time to resolve and issues to sort. What you're forgetting is that Cas only need planning permission to go through to get the funding so IMO, even if does get a load of section 106's, that's something for Opus to resolve - Cas will still get their cash.

Why hasn't this clown been banned yet? He's a no-nothing troll and he's just making it look like he knows something by making big posts.

It's been shown time & time again by multiple posters all he does is come on here on trolling missions all the time.

IA has forgot, or dare I say it, didn't know everyone who was present at this at meeting.

My Boss/friend actually did go and has no ties whatsoever with Castleford RL and his take on the meeting was one of a more optimistic one for Cas RL. His take on it was that whilst it's true to say that time is an issue (as it always is); it's not as negative as the opening post. To say or imply that the Council were negative just is not true. They have agreed to work extremely closely with Cas and Opus in a way that best serves the community.

My Boss/friend knows how much I love my club and couldn't wait to tell me he'd been to the meeting and how impressed with what he had seen and heard he was, and the interest that Cas' plans have sparked amongst developers and every major supermarket chain.

I hadn't bothered posting this until told by my Mother-in-law (wakey fan....though there's still time!) that it was on here, because it's not really news!

So it would seem to me that IA is indeed here to stir the pot as someone has already alluded to.

As a side issue; I understand why you don't want to publicise your "contact" IA; so I ask that you PM me with it. I'm more than happy to PM you the name of my Boss/friend on the understandig that neither is announced on the open forum. That way I can ask my source whether you're source was at the meeting, thus checking their credibility. Thanks.

Not being negative isn't the same as not being as positive as you hoped.

Just as an aside. This is a quote from the Wakey chairman today about today's game: "it’s a perfect opportunity to show the RFL and wider audience just how much our two teams bring to the game". That should be the message from both clubs.

From a conversation I had at the ground with one of the Tweeters it sounds like they've realised that they overstepped the mark a bit & future comments will be toned down.

must have missed this, what was said?

Glover and Hopkins (Marketing Bod) were tweeting each other, and therefore the world, something along the lines of Cas being a S t Hole and having to wipe their feet coming out of pubs.

I'm not surprised by that - a bit of naivety around social networking combined with over-exuberance in talking up the Derby game.

The Tweeting does seem to have calmed down a bit in the last week, so I'm guessing that words have been exchanged.

Still a bit disrespectfull coming from the chairman, Does he not sell into cas thus not bothered about whats he says about his customers.

Very professional,

He is one of my customers, cant wait for him to come in asking for a favour i may just remind him i just gutter trash from Cas and send him on his way, Or i may show i respect my customers and take his money plus some

And.

Them 5 grand fines did the trick then