would be disgrace if Cas took up the option to ground share if they felt they had to short term. My feelings are like a kid with sweets "get your own". If we get a new ground and they are no further then we should replace them and vice versa as well.This is why both teams should have been given a 12 month repreive and then if not coming up with goods at the end you are out. The RFL must see that both clubs and communities are pulling out the stops to sort their respective situations.

Why should Cas only get a 12 month licence? The stadium/playing facilities is only one part of the process and the only part of our application that lets us down in my opinion. Everything else at the club has progressed in the last three years; so if anything we're are a perfect example, should the RFL need one, of the benefits of franchising and the licence system. Can wakefield say the same?

Your point "get your own" is somewhat ironic as NM will be a community stadium; with its use available to anyone who can afford to pay. Wakefield Trinity will hold no ownership, as far as I'm aware, and therefore would have no right to turn anyone away.

A community stadium for WAKEFIELD, and you lot keep saying that your part of wakefield

I fail to see your point Willzay, could you elaborate please?

NM will be a community stadium for Wakefield, not Castleford.

Perhaps someone else could shed some light because I, along with everone else in the district was led to believe that the facilities that NM would provide were for the whole of the district of Wakefield, which includes the 5 towns does it not?

As far as I am aware you are right, but it would be a humiliating climb down for your club and some of your fans who have insisted GH would be built first (with NM unlikely to get the nod at all in certain peoples eyes), they didn't want a ground share at NM and that they wouldn't watch a team playing outside of Cas.

Of course its for the 5 towns, in the city of Wakefield.

The majority of Wakefield fans also believe the same.
We just can't believe Cas will sell their soul and move out of Cas and into Wakey to maintain their Super League place. Name change next maybe?

I kind of agree Wollo.... Any decision by Cas to back track and use the facilities at NM could prove disastrous, even in the short term. I've always felt a move to NM would kill Castleford RLFC and would eventually lead to a merger, a point I mooted a few months ago on here.

There are deep divisions within the district and always have been. Wakefield District never has and never will feel like one community in my opinion.

Plainly something people from outside of the district who advocate a merger involving the two clubs, and Featherstone, fail to grasp. It an artificial boundary.

The Wakefield District is only a politically motivated creation. A bit like one of these African countries set up using Empire borders but containing tribal divisions that can never be overridden.

If you've looked at the plans for both GH and NM it's blatantly obvious that they are as different as chalk and cheese.
One is very much a box standard "ikea" stadium, the other is a multi use sporting arena with corporate facilities that rival any in the county- and that's without mentioning the plethora of educational facilities on the site.

I'm sure Fully will enlighten you which is which.

Although the bottom line is (still) which is built first, all I can say is I can smell another PI on the way. The challenges we faced with NM under the UDP are just as big as those faced by WR under then new LDF. While our path appears to be clearing CT's could be just as muggy as it's ever been.

NM will be promise land, with NM the RFL will come crawling back.

That's lovely G. Price fan club, but what does any of what you said have to do with what is currently being discussed?

As the anchor tenants I would hope our view of Castleford moving into Newmarket would be seriously considered. The conflict of interest is there for everyone to see and serving as a home for Castleford would almost certainly damage the future prospects of Wakefield Trinity and therefore the stadiums main income stream.

The Stadium Trust might take the view that long term they are better off backing Trinity and protecting their long term revenue as opposed to backing any Tigers tenancy would only be short term.