Sorry Slugger, but the decision re Newmarket is not political. It is purely down to Local and National Planning Policy. EP really had no choice but to call it in - read the letter for the reasons.

losers and winners?

loser - Wakefield Trinity - the delay will force the club from the city and put the continued franchise of the club in serious jeopardy. without the franchise the future of the club itself must be in doubt.

loser - Wakefield City Council - having to pay for a public enquiry when funds are at an all time low, potentially losing a private enterprise development partner, not being able to meet their legal obligations for sustainable development, losing out on privately funded community sporting facilities, and thousands of jobs

loser - the people of Wakefield - the PI will be funded by tax payers, much needed jobs are put at risk, the extended period where there are no sporting facilities for the youth of Wakefield... possibly indefinate.

loser - Trinity fans and the Rugby League - a state of the art satdium built in parkland and environmentally sustainable, built specifically for Rugby League and fully funded seriously at risk.

loser - the developer - massive investment in time and resource and money potentially wasted in a time of deep recession.

loser - local residents - despite the delay, there will be a development on this site in the forseeable future. There are now chances that this could be a complete intustrial development rather than mixed industry and leisure.

winner.... Widnes RL perhaps? Cas RL perhaps (if they can get their act together)?
winner - Leeds city council - who have asserted their authority over the smaller neighbours
winner - for now - the nimbys - who have a few more months before the bulldozers roll in.

A move to Fev may be best chance of survival if no SL licence, move to Barnsley is step closer to extinction, do you think Wakefield v Dewsbury will attract neutrals from South Yorkshire?
Even more fed up than i was 10 mins ago.
PS Is it any coincidence that the council have guranteed 2 million pounds worth of land today, seems a bit strange.

Yes my feelings exactly also pressure on the RFL , how can nearly 140 years of sporting history and all the hard work of our community dept etc just get tossed aside by them at Red Hall

My earliest memory of being a Trinity fan is as a tearful 9 year-old at Wembley in '68.

It is therefore ironic that Leeds should again feature strongly in my sadness for our great club, given that there objection has no doubt had a major influence in this decision (rather than the NIMBY's), which in turn is almost certainly going to bring down the curtain on Trinity as a force in RL.

Forget Widnes - think Rochdale Hornets.

Quite easily cos it doesn't fit their agenda. We can lobby all you want but it won't make a blind bit of difference, they've a plan and they'll stick to it. If it kills wakey off, so be it.

Don't like being the harbinger of even more doom and gloom as you have had a pretty rough day as it is but I have just been looking on the barnsley fc forum and there fans seem none too pleased with the fact you could be looking for a ground share. Infact after reading the thread, today is the first thing they have heard about it and the brown stuff is hitting the fan big time.

Give over I bet you are loving it

Yes mate your right I am

Because Red Hall think we should be happy to be a championship club. Don't worry they also will expect people like you to continue putting in all your time and money for things like squad builder so we can raise funds to develop players so Leeds and the rest can pick off the best.

We are being given life as a feeder club and should be thankfull for that.

Also don't worry about all the hours our club put into the local schools I'm sure Leeds and Cas will happily step in to do that work for us.

This is great news no more wakefield chavs in super league the best ever

Dont blame the RFL,they only do what Sky Sport tell them to do.If the the funding is in place through the community trust,is there any other viable site?

I wouldn't be too smug just yet. I would put Halifax's application as stronger than yours, particularly as they have no fines for crowd trouble or homophobia.

Just to echo sentiments already spoke i am absolutely gutted about the stadium setback for wakefield trinity. The club will move to barnsley and continue in business, albeit for a short time, but i fear that come early 2011 the RFL will finally get rid of us. This, in my opinion, is down to a number of factors including the RFL'S blue sky thinking of a "perfect league" a league decided upon by factors which aren't related to on field matters. But tbh the main people responsible for the clubs demise will be the board of directors that "look after" the club. they have had ten years worth of money to develop Belle Vue, something which is possible when you look at headingley. They should be held reponsible! Sadly i see no way forward, goodbye Trin.

Stop gloating. If this was happening to your club you would be gutted too. Anyway Wakey chavs? How ironic!!