Stadium apart (which isn’t really there fault ) Wakefield are a model most clubs should look to because the squad they’ve assembled and I believe are still under the salary cap is excellent somebody is doing good business for them in there

Quote: dboy "And yes, by the way, our stadium is pants. The club are doing everything they can to rectify that - they just won't spend money they don't have. That's sensible.'" Yet they've just spent £3.15m that they don't actually have and worse still paid almost double the actual value of the land/ground? https://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpr ... -1-9703559

Quote: dboy "And yes, by the way, our stadium is pants. The club are doing everything they can to rectify that - they just won't spend money they don't have. That's sensible.'" Yet they've just spent £3.15m that they don't actually have and worse still paid almost double the actual value of the land/ground? https://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpr ... -1-9703559

Also, thinking laterally, I wouldn't be surprised if the "inflated" value paid acts as a kind of ring-fence of the loan/ground.

As the loan could be deemed as more than the value of the land (as it stands today), it means the owners of the club can't borrow against the land (it has no equity), and as such they can't "max the cards" and scarper.


As the loan reduces and the value of the land rises (through inflation and development), the club will be much more "wealthy".

Also take in the fact we get less TV income due to the state of our ground - a fact people forget when slagging it off, apparently Cas are the same.

At least Castleford has a reasonable sized fan base. Wakefield doesn't.

Yet Toronto do, you’re in desperate mode.

Wakefield are the sleeping giant of SL always have been. If you wern’t such a troll you’d congratulate a club that still commands a hard core support of 4000 whilst playing out of a hole in the ground but then stuff like that isn’t teally in your agenda is it.

Toronto have twice the attedance of Wakefield, twice the stadium, but didn’t have to pay twice the value to own it lol

Do they chuff, and when it comes to paying attendances they have less than Lock Lane. Sometimes the level of stupidity on here is nauseating. Still it is kinda funny that you suggest they get twice the gates Wakefield get because that makes them better supported than Saints who get away fans at most games

Right that should give you time to slip back into Jean mode.

Oh and their stadium is a municipal crap hole.

That’s pushing it quite a bit.

Rubbish.
Prove it.


What makes it a waste of time? They're bankrolled by someone else's money. They're supported by their own fans from a completely new market that never existed until recently. They're paying full time wages and creating opportunities that were never previously there.
What a waste of time.


Who came to who? Did we seek them or did they seek us? I think you're massively confused about how this has come about. The RFL have made it pretty clear that they have no expansion strategy. If clubs can find their own money she bankroll themselves and outlay the cost of travel for the poor skint Northern clubs, then they can join. So far, a few have volunteered. It has ZERO funding. It costs the game nothing and it would be ridiculous to turn them down as, if it does fail, costs us nothing.

I really don't see the issue.

There’s a bigger market for RL in North America after 2 years than there is in Wakefield after nearly 150.

Tatooine?!?! With that shed of a stadium?

Maybe we should start dishing out free tickets.