turn the argument round and just for arguments sake imagine GH was built 12 months before NM. how many wakey fans would come to cas. less i suppose because they would know the cash would go to cas.

I was thinking about the 'M' word the other day and came up with the name 'Wakefield United', I quite like that!

but it wouldn't

On the other hand, if the ground matches the like of Widnes, and we have a backer like Widnes, why the pressure to merge? The RFL might say that there can only be one team from the Wakefield area, but if we are at Newmarket, are spending the salary cap, have crowds to match the likes of Huddersfield and Widnes (which we do already), wouldn't we be merging to save Castleford? Would they merge if they were at Glasshoughton?

No one tells Leigh to merge with Wigan, or Widnes to merge with Wire. It is always with us that we talk about it, but if Newmarket comes off, what do we have to gain by it? I would tolerate a merged team at Newmarket, but what would Cas have to gain by it?

£12 million quid in the bank instead of spunking it all on a new stadium?

We should expect Huddersfield to be in favour of mergers. You've had one already and did okay. I'm not sure Sheffield share the view though.

A merged team with the Cas stadium money + another million from the RFL?

That's a club set for a decade at the top of the league.

A ground share was the right idea in 2005 or 6 when the plans could have been made to find a site that was fair to both sets of fans. Neither proposal on the table now fits that bill, but it was a no brainer, as the article puts it, and as the history now shows us. I still think it entirely possible that neither plan will ever get off the ground. I was published in the Express in 2006 I think, almost word for word what Kear has said....but it's way way too late now. It's Newmarket or bust for us and a lot of praying over the next few weeks.

You must be the most negative poster on here,if that's the quality of specci that £100 season tickets bring let's put 'em up to £200 a year!!!Glover out!!

Newmarket is slap bang in the middle of the two places, so purely on location its perfect. However Cas fans will see it as Wakefield, whereas a stadium in Normanton would perhaps be perceived as neutral.

I'm shocked nobody has mention Andrew Glover in all this. I can't see him wanting to merger his recently purchased business with another. Also, let's say both clubs average gates of 8,000, I can't see a new club attracting 16,000 each week so that would be more fans lost to the game.