rlf warnings over stadium

Quote: SaintsFan "Would it be possible for Cas and Wakey to share a stadium but maintain individual identities within that ground? For instance, by having a Wakefield end and a Castleford end, with separate changing rooms and tunnel on to the pitch and identical corporate and other facilities so that each club could operate separately within the same overall physical space? '"

No. The bottom line is there is no location anywhere which would be agreeable to both parties. For Castleford, it has to be IN Castleford, but for Wakefield that's unacceptable so we left deadlocked. No matter how cleverly you design the interior or split the functionality, the bottom line is we'd never ever agree on where to build it.

Quote: SaintsFan "I cannot see how Wakefield Council can endorse and/or help finance two entirely separate rugby league clubs within its own borough. Apart from anything else, the council tax payers would go ape!'"

As I understand it, it was Wakey's hope that the Council would build them a stadium west of the city centre but (again, as I understand it) it has never been the case that Castleford's stadium would be paid for with public money. The Tigers have done a deal with WMDC which allows the Council to incorporate a number of facilities which they would have had to provide anyway into the design of the new stadium, but that is quite different from the Council financing our stadium. Ultimately it actually [isaves[/i the Council money rather than costing them.

Let's be under no illusions here. While Wakey have ummed an ahhed over Durkar, Ossett, Thornes Park and god knows what else, Castleford have been quietly working away on the Glasshoughton Project. Years of work is now nearing fruition for Cas, and there is no way on earth that they will walk away from it at this stage, purely to back Wakey's proposed dream at Stanley.

So please, once and for all.... drop it.