Agreements are already in place for a temporary 'home'

Why hasn't club mentioned before then? Announcement yesterday didn't say anything either which was a bit odd. Plus for SL bid how long is temporary? If NM got knocked back where to then? Seem's all Wakey's eggs were well and truly in one basket!

Not havine a pop but it's just very worrying to see a club on such thin ice! Only mention of Oakwell or any plan B has been from fans thus far etc. IIRC SL bids go in, in April as well!

can be around £10-20K per game. A one year or two year (!) deal would make it cheaper. However the 'cost to wakey' is potentially higher.

The need office space / retail space. They will lose stadium naming and advertising money. They will make very little on corporate hospitality etc. (This creates pressure on putting up entrance costs)There will be additional costs re training / playing U20 + U 18 games + costs for events through the season. Likely to be pressure on marketing costs. PLUS gates are likely to fall so revenues down. Given the winding up orders while at BV this additional financial pressure hammers any licence bid.

Course we could and pilac their eyes out just like your lot did

I think you can add to that an absolutely crap start to the season where the team were inconsistent and unentertaining - this turned a fair few away, only to see some return later in the year. Add to that the recession and a general feeling of disillusionment amongst the fans at the perceived lack of progress with the stadium development - the Jungle was a pretty depressing place to be at times in 2010.

I think few would argue that the town lives and breathes RL, however what's currently required are new facilities and a new Super League License; hopefully both of which will come to fruition and help the club realise it's full potential.

Wakefield are reaping what they sowed some years ago imo.

They over spent, broke the cap and did all they could to not finish bottom, whereas Hudds made sure they laid the foundations for building the club to long term success.

Maybe if Wakefield had kept their promise to the RFL when they got into SL they wouldnt be in this situation now.

The icing on the cake was when they rejected even the concept of ground share.

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HTH

This.

Whatever you think of franchising, this is not an issue that the RFL forced onto Wakefield three years ago. The club has held onto the coat-tails of other, more progressive clubs since their entry into Super League. The only tangible change to Belle Vue since their entry to SL has been the "construction" (if that's what you can call the process of putting one Portakabin on top of another) of the Costa del Crappy apartment block.

Throw in that fact that this is a club that has previously broken the salary cap, a club that took the proverbial Michael with overseas quota loopholes, a club that has several run-ins with HMRC, a club that has one of its board members subject to an Individual Voluntary Agreement and a club that, all in all, has failed to make any sort of tangible progression since 1999 and you have a club that isn't deserving of its place in an elite competition.

where were the wakey fans complaining about franchising when they got a license off the back of one of the dogiest franchise applications

welcome to SL widnes youll make a fine replacement for wakey

bye bye wakey, good riddance

bingo

if relegation means wakey die off well bad luck

widnes, cas all went down and came back

wakey have to live with their continued history of failed promises

Why would relegation kill them off? Sure, their ground is worse than most championship clubs, but there's a reasonable expectation they'd still get 1500-2000 people every week, as they did in the second tier in the 1990s. That is plenty enough to run a part-time team on a £300K salary cap.

Will they be missed?