Incorrect. The developers have bought the land and have agreed to transfer the freehold of the land to CTRLFC for £1 once the stadium is built. It has NOT been sold by the council nor are the council involved in any way.

To be fair I'm not convinced the statement from John Minards came directly as a result of the outcome at the hearing, it reads to me as something he's said previously regarding the general progress of the talks and then put in context of the hearing result within the article, to put more positive spin on it from a Wakefield perspective. Unless the paper rang him immediately after the outcome for a statement (considering how fast the article was published), but he makes no direct reference to the hearing in what they've quoted.

Surely there can't be anyone who is genuinely surprised by this outcome?!

Mr Box has a long history of using these committee appointments, with their generous expense allowances, as leverage to keep his storm troopers in line; this is another example, and it was always going to go exactly the way he wanted it to.

I don't know what the relationship between WMDC and YCP is - but it's very clear that the latter have never had any intention of complying with the SoS's decision - and the former have never had any intention of enforcing it; and no amount of spirited intervention by a well-meaning group of volunteers was ever going to get in the way of their joint endeavour.

I'm a Labour party member of many years standing - I've today put in yet another official complaint about Mr Box and his antics; which will come to naught, as all the others have done.

None of us know what is being done behind the scenes. All I know is that Michael Carter is no mug, he has been very vocal in the past about broken promises, and his silence and the support of the club tells me that there are things being done that were dependent on this and are more advanced than a vague commitment. The role of TRB was, I presume, to remind them not to take the club for mugs.

I know it's difficult to trust anyone in this, but sometimes silence says more than words, as Ronan Keating once ruined.

This.

At least we'll soon be rid of all those "what's happening with the new stadium" posts. What will posters like cosmicat do with all that spare typing time?

Ill keep asking just to annoye you !!

Fully, you are splitting hairs, recorded at the time from cllr Box was that the deal was Castleford could not afford to pre buy the land even though they own their own ground ! Therefore by agreement of the developer getting full planning permission - unobstructed, the developer would charge £1.0 & Castleford RL would own their new stadium ! But their ground would go to the developer for building housing approved by the council. Therefore a new ground & stadium for £1.0 all with no hassel, however I do understand that their has been frustrations & that they continue, but all at no cost to the club & therefore no debt to the club !!!

Ask your Chairman what's going on. He's supposedly a whizz, but didn't buy the ground at a bargain price and has now borrowed money to pay almost double its value!!!!! You really couldn't make it up.

Really!
You can’t say stuff like that on here, Mike is untouchable, sacrosanct & can not be questioned!

How little you know. The people at the club did indeed consider buying the land,but were advised against it, by those people considered trustworthy at that time, as it would push up the price, but not to worry because those thought trustworthy had a cunning plan to secure the land for the club. Just as we saw the actions of other so called trustworthy people in Council chambers last Thursday.

Er, Mike's not the chairman.... he's the Chief Exec.

He’s referring to Mike, it was he who had the chance to buy the ground and didn’t for whatever reason.

Apologies - I get you.

What's that got to do with the council granting more planning permission and York Court not contributing any money towards a community stadium?

Still incorrect. And Wheldon Rd will also remain in the hands of CTRLFC. It’s upto us what we do with it - rumour is that we want it for a state of the art training base.

The only thing the council have had a hand in is the granting of planning permission and the S106 agreement (which is a smack in the face of Wakey fans since lessons were learned from yours for that one)