Peter Box was on Radio Leeds yesterday alluding to good news regarding Wakey, early in the new year, however we’ve heard this too many times now. If there’s nowt happening, just keep it quiet!

No idea what’s happening with Cas, but from a Trinity fan I wish em all the best. FWIW I think the Jungle is a great RL stadium & with Headingley my favourite away destination.

Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Try this :- axiomyorkshire.co.uk/'" cheers looks great just hope this now happens sooner than later, I see a lot of names have all these signed and agreed to being part of the development? M&S have been suffering poorly of late would make you wonder why they would invest else where

Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Try this :- axiomyorkshire.co.uk/'" cheers looks great just hope this now happens sooner than later, I see a lot of names have all these signed and agreed to being part of the development? M&S have been suffering poorly of late would make you wonder why they would invest else where

I’m pretty sure that if some of the world’s biggest football clubs can share a stadium (eg AC Milan and Inter Milan, holding 80k) then two rugby league clubs attracting less than 10k can manage it too. Whilst the clubs will split revenue (aside from ticket sales etc) from a ground share, they’d also halve the running costs of having a stadium of their own. I wish the clubs had come together much earlier when the financial climate would have made building a stadium more likely.
At the moment, even if the clubs pool resources, there is nowhere near enough capital to build a stadium. You’d be looking at an approximate cost of £15m. Wakefield have no money or assets. Cas have some assests in terms of owning the land that Wheldon Road stands on, but also debts owed to the Fulton family. There’d also be some costs associated with training facilities, as presumably neither club would train at a joint stadium, so would need to find alternatives (in Cas’ case, using the current ground as a training base, but that would mean it wouldn’t be sold to bring in revenue for any proposed new ground).
At the moment, Axiom is Cas’ best bet. The development has already had a considerable spend, and I’d be surprised if any company would just be willing to throw that away. What they might do, though, is wait until there is more economic stability before proceeding, leaving Cas at Wheldon Road for significant period of time.
On a personal level, I love going to Wheldon Road. On a commercial level, the club needs a sparkly new stadium.

Yes it looks good but that's basically far as it goes. The 'timeline' was removed from the website several months ago (I'll leave you to consider why that might be). They have 4 retailers signed up - nowhere near enough to make it a goer - and despite categorical assurances given by their reps at public consultations in the summer that construction would definitely start in the autumn (of 2018)..... They've also asked the Council to delay considering some submitted planning applications.

As our chairman says in this article it would be nice if Wakefield concerned themselves with their own quest for a ground rather than causing mischief regarding Odsal. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... -on-earth/ As a Bradford fan I think we've been through enough without being caught up in whatever games Hudgell and Carter are playing.

As our chairman says in this article it would be nice if Wakefield concerned themselves with their own quest for a ground rather than causing mischief regarding Odsal. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... -on-earth/ As a Bradford fan I think we've been through enough without being caught up in whatever games Hudgell and Carter are playing.

Quote Pumpetypump="Pumpetypump"As our chairman says in this article it would be nice if Wakefield concerned themselves with their own quest for a ground rather than causing mischief regarding Odsal. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... -on-earth/ As a Bradford fan I think we've been through enough without being caught up in whatever games Hudgell and Carter are playing.'" Trinity were advised by WMDC not to bid on Belle Vue so as not to drive the price up as part of the many shenanigans that’s been proposed over the last few years. As for the rest of it, I’ve learned not to believe everything that I’ve heard or read in the media over the last few years.

Quote Pumpetypump="Pumpetypump"As our chairman says in this article it would be nice if Wakefield concerned themselves with their own quest for a ground rather than causing mischief regarding Odsal. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... -on-earth/ As a Bradford fan I think we've been through enough without being caught up in whatever games Hudgell and Carter are playing.'" Trinity were advised by WMDC not to bid on Belle Vue so as not to drive the price up as part of the many shenanigans that’s been proposed over the last few years. As for the rest of it, I’ve learned not to believe everything that I’ve heard or read in the media over the last few years.

It’s an odd thing for Carter and Hudgell to be doing. I can’t see any honest reason for them to be looking at Odsal.

Can you really see any reason at all honest or not why both of them should get involved together, maybe it's someone/others what's trying to cause mischief.

Establishes a market value which makes it harder for the RFL to flog the lease to Chalmers at a knockdown price. More looking over of shoulders, I suspect...

Can you really see any reason why he’d be making it up?

It is a bit far fetched to suggest Chalmers has gone to print with a fictional tale of Hudgell and Carters shenanigans. But as to what their actual game is I don't know.

It's certainly clear from some particularly strong statements FROM Hudgell that there is personal animosity toward Chalmers and possibly the bulls.

If it's simply a case of being self appointed police to try and make sure we don't buy back the lease for less than them deem acceptable then I'd say to them that they have benefited financially from Bradfords demise already (the withheld funding everyone gobbled up and which led to another administration) and could they now just bugger off and leave us alone.

I'm aware in taken the thread off at a tangent so if anyone wants to talk about it separately we can split it. Love and kisses etc etc.