Newmarket is in neutral location. It's 4 miles from Wakey and Cas town centres and certainly fair distance from the bulk of our supporter base. Newmarket is not even in the traditional City boundaries. It's not the ideal location for a ground representing our City but considering all other options have been exhausted it's best we can do. We as a club have compromised, Castleford as a club haven't, for them its in the Cas boundaries or nothing! Basically Richard Wright wants his cake and eat it. Glasshoughton is on Castlefords doorstep and located right on the edge of there supporter base. Where would the compromise be on Cas Tigers part if we were to play at Glasshoughton?

The compromise on their part is that they have done the groundwork for the project and would have to sell a substantial stake (50%) in order to raise the required funds.
We would have a home & the associated security in terms of owning a share in the stadium which we could then sell if/when we moved on.

All I'm saying is that this needs considering.
GH is within our city limits & could be just a matter of marketing.

GH is in the District not in the City its a non starter from my point of view early days when it could have been a community facility and shared OK but Cas decided long ago it was theirs, as far as i am concerned its theirs I would rather watch Stanley rangers than go to GH

Are you for real? if Wakefield move to GH it would be the end for Wakefield, like deehell said new market is a compromise half way between the 2 towns, GH is not within our city limits its too near to Castleford, I for 1 would not travel to watch Wakefield in cas and i think alot of wakey fans wouldn't too, it just would not work from a business point of view. As for ground work what exactly have they done? shifted abit of muck around? not bad in 5 years eh?

Our compromise would be not having any pro sports teams or facilities based in wakefield and would alienate our fanbase. As for GH been in the City limits shut up Richard wright.

The point they miss is that during the years that no one identified with the merged entity the profile of rugby league in Wakefield & Castleford would diminish to an almost unrecoverable extent.

Phil Clarke loves to wax lyrical about the Wigan/Leigh area's talent production but the Wakefield, Featherstone & Castleford area is just as productive. If the sports profile were to drop then that production would be damaged almost beyond repair. Dads stop taking kids to games, players no longer visit schools, stories don,t get published, community officers stop reaching out etc etc.

Young kids stop looking to Rugby League for heroes and stop trying to emulate Neil Fox, David Topliss, Nigel Bell, Billy Conway, Garen Casey, David March, Gareth Ellis & Aaron Murphy. As a consequence amateur clubs can't find the players and before you know it they no longer run an under 7s team, under 11s etc which means the next crop of exciting juniors doesn't emerge and we miss out on the next Sam Burgess because in the absence of rugby league he chose athletics or football.

Rugby League as a sport isn't that rich in talent production and the RFLs policy is coming dangerously close to killing the Goose that lays the golden egg.

No its not even worth considering. It would be the beginning of the end of Wakefield Trinity and would pretty much convince various important parties that Newmarket doesn't have to happen and thus never will.

You're so wide of the mark in terms of how this would be received by the majority of fans, it's hard to know where to start.

The only comfort I suppose is that you appeared on here during the takeover process and gave us assurances that Mr Parkin would be our new owner in short order; if the verisimilitude of your latest predictions is similarly inaccurate, we've got no worries about being forced into a groundshare at GH.

I've been on here a lot longer than that and have been a Trinity fan for over 2 decades, so no question of love for our club on my part.

All options need to be considered. We are without a home and facing a set back with what we all want in the long term. We need to consider all options for getting there in the short and medium term.

Being pig faced (no offence meant to anyone) has got us nowhere. We need to be open minded to ALL possible solutions to securing the long term future of WT.

I never predicted anything. All I said was it needs consideration. Unless you think the problems we face may go away if we simply look the other way.
We are working well to turn round some of the historical mistakes, open mindedness should be encouraged.

Well you've said on the cas board you've heard that us sharing GH will happen so where have you heard this from and what's the set back we at facing don't you want/think NM will happen

Wakefield fans will not watch their team at GH. Cas fans will not watch their team at NM. When will people realise this and stop going on about sharing. Its a non-starter, forget about it. Should our new owner move us to GH then he will be known forever as the man who made the decision that killed Wakefield Trinity. Not sure he'd want that somwhow.