Any RUGBY LEAGUE fan would question the motives of a man who writes a letter to a group AGAINST another club's stadium plans when he has absolutly no need to to do so!!!

Well i have just read his response. He has not slagged us of at all nor has he objected to NM.

He confrimed that they would take part in a council led feasability study and we wouldn't. He also says that Wakey can play at J32 if needed.

All we are doing is creating more publicity that we were not confident enough to up against Glasshoughton.

This may not be popular to some, but what he has sais has been said before. We have said we would welcome the Tigers to play at NM. And we did refuse to take part in the feasability study.

We should spend our time supporting our plans, in stead of going over the top like some have on here.

The inspector is going to look at Belle Vue, the HJ and LSV is he not. Why not ask him to pop along to visit the fabulous facilities on offer to us that Richard Wright mentions at Glasshoughton as well then.

No? Oh of course theres nothing there is there.

Ok, well just show him all the written agreements showing the funding is all in place, guarenteeing it will be built before the start of the next franchise period.

No? What, you mean there aren't any of those either.....

But the first thing you should ask yourself is WHY SAY ANYTHING AT ALL?? why? what is the agenda of a man who could have said nothing but CHOSE to comment to a group who were against our new ground? with 'friends' like that...

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Are u for real ?

There's no way on earth youngcat is a WTW fan.

It's not what he said, because I doubt it will carry any weight, it's the fact that he said it. He is objecting by implication, by stating that we can play at Glasshoughton, thus suggesting that there is no need for Newmarket, and that we acted unreasonably. He doesn't use the word "object" but he tries to give reasons why the scheme is unnecessary.

"Wakefield Trinity are maintaining a diplomatic silence over the discovery that Richard Wright, the chief executive of their local rivals Castleford, has CONTRIBUTED to the case AGAINST their application for a new stadium."

"Wright has yet to respond to the storm caused by his letter, although Castleford have promised a statement on Wednesday."

"Leeds city council, which is challenging the development because it involves greenbelt land, produced a batch of documents including a letter from Wright which confirmed that Wakefield have previously rejected the opportunity to share a stadium that Castleford HOPE to build a couple of junctions along the M62 – although their plans are DEPENDENT on planning permission being granted for a supermarket to be built on the site of their current home in the town at Wheldon Road."

nice report

Right, I don't really intend to get into a debate on this but will say my piece.

Barton Willmore are acting on behalf of an objector and possibly being jointly financed by another developer who has had their site rejected for Newmarket. We don't know, we think we know, but don't for certain.

Barton Willmore have written to Richard Wright and asked him to write a letter, exactly what they have asked him we don't know... but they have asked him to write that letter. Barton Willmore are a well established, respected and professional planning consultancy, I am sure that they will have not misrepresented themselves to him and they will have explained who they are, whom they are acting on behalf of and why they would like this information. I don't believe Barton Willmore would have tricked Richard Wright into writing this letter, they have asked for it and he has taken the decision to write this letter. I think that Barton Willmore will have seen this as a punt worth taking. They clearly had decided on this as one of their arguments against Newmarket, so they would have gone down this route no matter what RW did or didn't write. I suspect they might have been surprised and pleased to get a reply!

The issue for me comes right here! I can't see anyway that Richard Wright did not know for whom and for why he was asked to write this letter. As many people have posted, other than a bit of Cas spin, the content of the letter is nothing that RW has not said before in the press pre-July.

He has taken a decision to write this letter in the full knowledge of what they were going to use it for, to use it to object to Newmarket!!! I am sorry but at this point Richard should have written back, very politely, and said that he did not wish to comment any further and that his previous comments on this matter are available in media records.

Simple!

He didn't do that and that is very disappointing and I think it lacks professional integrity and common courtesy!

I think that the some of the posters from Cas who are defending his decision should actually just put the boot on the other foot. If James Elston had been asked and then written to a group objecting to WR, maybe Edinburgh House, saying that Castleford could ground share at Newmarket, intimating that there is no need to build a supermarket on the WR site how would Cas fans feel?

Come on, be honest?

But we just keep highlighting the point that we would not take part into the council feasability study. We are now telling everyone that fact, that is my point. Other clubs fans, the media and maybe those at the council will draw the conclusion that we were running scared and they were not.

Link?