Keep Wakefield Wildcats In Super League

Quote: gutterfax "Really?
why aren't they still at your club then?
spot on....but we are debt free....you went bust not long ago..rules is rules.
are you for real.......... The next lot of home developed juniors still are, Blaymire, Griffin, George, Murphy, Wildie, Davey, Trout, Annakin, Spiers and with completely new ownership to secure the finances they won't be going anywhere.

Brough, Ellis, Weswood, Snitch, Mason, Griffin, Wood, Pitts, Ferguson, Atkins all players in SL who were developed into SL players at Wakefield.

Haughy, Handforth, King, Applegarth, Bibb, Helm, Spicer.......you know what, too many to mention in the lower divisions!

For the first time in the sports history a club has marketed the game by primetime TV advertising twice in a season and there will be more.

The Community element is well documented as being exemplary.

Sponsorship, Hospitality & Merchandising is at an all time high.

The clubs membership scheme is approaching the 5,000 mark and season tickets have sold well since the uncertainty surrounding the pre season was resolved.

Wakefields crowds are up by an average 670 per game when compared with last years corresponding games, the average attendance being around the 7,000 Mark.

The stadium can be delivered and Savilles have had two meetings and done their investigations to confirm this. Their second meeting was attended by the head of Wakefield Council, the head of Wakefield planning, the Chair of the all party parliamentary group, the MD/owner of the development company who confirmed the FULL funding being in place, the shadow Home Secretary, The shadow Chancellor, a Knight of the Realm and the new owners of Trinity. The timescale of the PI has been confirmed and that allows the developer to give an informed date for construction and delivery of the stadium. It won't be for 2012 but will be mid 2013 all subject to a positive answer from the SoS of course but sources suggest that as the probable outcome.

You can compare Wakefield with Widnes in terms of their Administration and subsequent new ownership but that's where it ends. The main difference between the two is the ten years of building that Wakefield have gone through as a club and despite the failings of the old ownership, they did develop the club well in many areas.

The RFL, SL and Trinity have invested a significant amount of SKY and private money into Wakefield and to abandon that just when the club have turned a big corner and seen light at the end of a long tunnel would be a travesty. Widnes hadn't had that and so the decision to turn them down last time was different to the Wakefield one this time.

The RFL want a strong Wakefield club in SL, I know that blows the Trinity fans conspiracy theories away, but that's the truth from the horses mouth. Wakefield, in a new stadium, with new ownership and the finances to spend the full cap offers the RFL & SL the best possibility of another City club joining the likes of Warrington, Huddersfield & Sts etc.

Alongside Wigan the Wakefield area produces a huge amount of talent and the loss of Wakefield would be damaging to that.

I don't want any club to lose it's franchise and my long held opinion is that no one will be! I fully expect the league to be expanded contrary to the statements made by many. The RFL would not be able to justify the removal of any club if Crusaders remain, I expect the announcement in July to state that no one is being removed and that Halifax or AN OTHER will make it a 16 team competition.