You all keep talking about it should say Wakefield or should say Cas, how about it does not have Wakefield or Cas in the name??

Plus Cas have a better chance of getting a stadium at the minute the Wakefield, so i think that you need Cas more than Cas need you.

Airedale Monkeys?

Reply to Jambon, just in case there was any confusion...

Cas need Wakefield much, much more. Castleford saying they will play at Newmarket won’t make it anymore viable than it is now, however, if Wakefield were prepared to go to Glasshoughton it would greatly improve the chances of that project coming to fruition.

Everyone who is suggesting a merger, assumes we will become a force, a side capable of winning trophies and we'll have a superb stadium will masses of fans. Why?

What would happen if the merged club performed similar to that of either Cas or Wakefield, the crowds were around 6k and the stadium didn't come off? Short term it may gain a franchise but in the long term i don't see fans sticking with the club if it doesn't become a top 4 side

I reckon that Stanley Rangers and Lock Lane would get a big influx of fans.

Note that these calls for a smaller league always come from the teams that would be guaranteed to get a place though.
If Smith were coach of Salford or Wakey or Cas do you think his opinion would be the same??? He'd be lining himself up for losing his job or coaching in the lower leagues. I would be willing to bet that he would be completely against reducing numbers if he worked at one of those clubs.

me thinks it will either be a merged SL team and feeder teams cas/fev for the SL ..

in reply to rebel more like the Glasshoughton Hubcaps

Doubt you would find many cas fans willing to support a team called wakefield. Would you support a team called castleford?

Like all these coaches or players from 'top' teams they can speak from a position of security. They don't worry about players or fans from teams lower down the league.

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.