If the new sports village is going to cost 20 million including a new stadium at no cost to the club, why would any company investing such a huge amount sit back and allow the club to possibly go into administration reducing our chances of a super league franchise.

Taking into account the running costs for a new stadium alone, surely logic dictates that the club playing in super league is more financially viable than a club playing in the lower tier.

Is there more going on here than we are aware of?

Thats a very good point Gizmo, If Yorkcourt relistically need us more than we need them, allow the club go out of business cutting their chances of ever developing Newmarket into anything making their investment in the land there worthless?

Be careful, you may find that as time goes by and if the latest LDF goes through, Yorkcourt need WTWC less and less. Stranger things have happened in business.

Think how many flat pack wharehouses they could build on 51 hectares for 15 to 20 million pounds .......



A loss of 14 hectares with a saving of that magnitude may be a price worth paying.

IA you are right they do seem to have backed themselves into a corner. And as you keep telling us the previous government and their officers have made Wakefield find 95ha for warehousing, and and all the facts seem to suggest this was a tall order with the limited amount of land available to do this. So perhaps THIS government and its officers will help Wakefield with the burden and Lower the amount of land required for Warehousing.

I am merely stating my opinion that if we are playing in an SL standard stadium which will be oakwell for 2012 the hopefully Newmarket after that we have a better application.

And what about all the other parts that make up a licence application?

We do have aspects of our application which hold up quite strongly. Our community work is better than most; our junior set up scores pretty well; we have a good amount of home grown talent in the squad and we actually do pretty well for commercial income from sponsors etc.

We score poorly on fan base and on general income.

The ground - well that entirely depends on the basis used for the application.

I would prefer it to be judged on it's own merits - if we cross the finish line then the RFL would then have to decide to eliminate from the bottom up.

Back to NM - can I publicly state what a great job IA did at the presentation on Tuesday.

Whatever the outcome of the current situation, we know that Newmarket is vital to our future and we must not lose focus in the fight to keep it on the right path (or cycleway

)

Can we not make IA an honorary Wildcat, or even persuade him to defect from Headingley.
Surely WMDC could grant him political asylum or something



???

It could be the start of a programme to rehabilitate all those lost souls wandering around Wakefield wearing Whinos shirts; if it was extended out to those with misguided allegiances to Shudds and the Dulls, we'd be knocking on the door of 10k fans per week.