Don't know whether I am in minority or not, but to me the only way forward is for a merger - new identity, new strip, new name, nothing to link either club to its roots (and this from a supporter of 49years)

I realise the problem Cas fans would have with this but as the district is called Wakefield they would just have to suck it up just as we would if the reverse was the state of afairs.
In answer to your question. Yes, but only because cas was my first club when I lived at the top of Duke Street in the Wheldale pub. But that was a long time ago.

This merged team people are talking about will play somewhere within WAKEFIELD MDC.
It will also represent the area of WAKEFIELD MDC
It will be a merger of two or maybe three teams that are already situated in WAKEFIELD MDC.

I can't think of any other name that would be more suitable.

However seeing as the public who live in the little suburb of down town Cas won't support the team I say we forget about the merger and let a team with WAKEFIELD in the title be the club that represents the district.

The wakefield fan in the qoute i posted had pretty much the same opinion as i do, that whoever put us all under one council clearly didnt know the area. The name wakefield does not represent the people of castleford and featherstone, who have no affiliation with that city, other than sharing a rather inept council. If leeds countiues to grow and wakefield council gets amalgamated with it would you want to merge wakey with leeds and support a team called leeds?

And no i wouldnt support a merger, why would i stop supporting my own team to support one of my teams rivals?

I agree that it could be logical to call a merged team Wakefield, but logic wouldn't come into it if you were cas fan. They support cas, they dislike wakefield, they wouldn't support a team called wakefield. No amount of logic will convince most cas fans to support a team called wakefield or vice versa.

Then they will wither on the vine.....