Spot on, though Glover brought it on himself by posting here in the first place.

Before the conspiracies really are set ablaze, who exactly at the RFL says Oakwell is a bad thing? And why do we believe any rumours anyway?

(That said, I believe Oakwell would be unsustainable due to crowds dropping by not travelling and not being convinced that the numbers required in Barnsley would be attracted to watch.)

Wakey Express quote AG as saying Oakwell is not an option - plan B is a shared facility with another local team 'roughly the same distance from BV as NM is'

A useful way to appear to 'win' an argument, is to create the illusion that your opponent occupies an absolute position, that you can then debunk.

As most people will understand from my original post however, I'm not advocating that Mr Glover reveals all the innner workings of the club or is free and easy with business critical information, to the detriment of his future plans.

There is a middle way though, and that's what I'm suggesting would be useful; to keep the stakeholders engaged, to maintain the positive vibe and to show a confident front to the RL and wider community, we have to engage in good PR.

As the modfather himself once said - this is the modern world, and like it or not, in the modern world a business has to communicate with it's stakeholders. AG has, up to now, done a fantastic job in that regard - his most recent comments about sharing a ground and such have muddied that waters a bit though, and people are, understandably, asking questions.

The problem is that, at the moment, quotes attributed to our leaders are all negative regarding our Super League future. They are starting the gossip.
So we either have no Super League future or are lulling other strugglers into a false sense of security.

I would like to know what has changed then. Cost? Availability? RFL acceptance?

My guess is the other ground is Featherstone? If so i take it we've given up on a superleague licence this time around.

When SWAG first started Di showed me a load of plans that had been drawn up by various regimes through the years. Some were very impressive including the most recent that date around 2002/3.

Her argument was that including demolition cost, restricted access and a relatively small site the cost of improving BV would not paid for long term by the new stands.

She was of course making this assessment based on the fact that the club was not willing to write any monies off in the development. However an owner who was willing to lose some money could rebuild BV to a good standard, though the final capacity would be unlikely to exceeed 12,000 at best 14,000. The main planning concern would not be the buildings but the parking and transport issues. To guarantee permission the club would probably need to purchase or at least lease nearby land for parking, certainly if it went to 14k rather than 12k which is closer to the existing capacity.

My own preference has always been to redevelop BV which I think is in a fantastic position, a mile from town and two nearby train stations etc. It's failing is being hemmed in, especially on the west side of the ground. That said I still think it could be done if the RFL were to ever view the game realistically and reduce some of the utterly ludicrous requirements.

Featherstone or Dewsbury. Either way it means the club have given up on SL. Unless temporary stands are to be used The Tetley's Stadium.

Hear Hear.. Vastman

Sorry to disappoint you but we are not in the brown stuff one little bit.

Thing is though Cas are not in the brown stuff as you put it, we are actually in a better position than we have been ever before as we now have a realistic source of funding for the ground.
also the ground is only one part of the licence application, we have a youth system that is the envey of many SL clubs and it fruits are there for all to see this season, our work in local schools programe is second to none infact our application looks a very strong one to me. So if i were you i would stop worrying about what is going on at Cas and just stick to sorting out your own problems.

Ask robbo then.