Dewsbury ground 5.4 miles from Wakefield city centre. Feath ground 6.7 miles according to AA .At least try and be accurate when making a point Sacred Cow.

As i stated i was quoting it from Belle Vue. Please try and read posts correctly before being a smart .

If it's any consolation to Trinity fans, if we have to move to Dewsbury Rams Stadium it has a Wakefield postcode [WF12 7RH]

Wakey's Belle Vue stadium postcode is wf1 5ey. According to Google Earth, Dewsbury Rams stadium [postcode wf12 7rh] is 6.7miles from Trinity Belle Vue ground. Featherstone Rovers stadium[postcode wf7 5en] is 5.6miles from Trinity ground so only 1.1mile difference. [these distances are by road and shortest possible route]

I'll give you that one! The Owl Lane stadium is actually closer to my house than Belle Vue is, but i'd still prefer to be playing within our own boundaries. The fact remains though that not only is one is within Wakefield MDC and one isn't one will also need work to bring it up to superleague standard whilst one wouldn't. I would guess we would have to contribute to some degree to any building works, why spend money on someone elses ground for a years stay? It will be a very symbolic move to go outside the area to Dewsbury and a very risky one at that. Still just my opinion, others may feel different.

It all depends on exactly why we are moving and how long we are expecting it to last.
Plus (and more importantly) any cost implications ie, match day revenue, rental costs etc, etc and availability.
It's far from straight forward and it may all be posturing to try and get some decisions made but, this is extremely risky.

Leaving BV, especially if the new development begins on the Super Bowl site could hamper and negotiations on rights of way etc and with WMDC planning not having covered itself in glory for other Trinity plans, it certainly make you worry as to whether we would ever return to BV.

Scary times AGAIN for the Trinity faithful and the biggest worry will be the effect on our pitiful home support.

Belle Vue is a toilet. I cannot wait to get away from it.
Having to walk through streets full of skank is not fun.
Last game, cutting through from the Catherine Street area onto Doncaster Road, we had to walk through no less than 30 used needles and paraphernalia.
You then enter the ground past piles off litter around Super Bowl.
It is a disgusting mess and a crying shame to leave it with bad memories (off the field)

Have you tried parking somewhere else? Sugar Lane perhaps.

Whatever your opinions one thing must be sure, that with us moving out one way or another things are finally going to come to a head very soon. You get the feeling the future direction and prosperity of the club is about to hit a massively crucial point in the next few weeks.

Not a smart nal at all Sacred Cow , the relevant factor is the distance from Wakefield centre to make a comparison of distance to travel. At moment I need to catch two buses to BelleVue, my son one. Roles reversed if at Dewsbury. One bus for me , two for him.Some winners , some losers as regards travel issues.

I'll chuck something else into the discussion which is worth considering if the choice is between Fev and Dewsbury.

I think we could play at Dewsbury and keep our identity quite easily.

However if we had a season or two at Fev I believe the cries of merger would soon start to become very loud.

Can't see it we could keep our indentity quite easily at either ground, that is unless we were to be relegated. If that was to happen then without our own ground the merger talk would probably start no matter where we were playing.

On the subject of expense, if you leave Belle Vue with the intention of returning then you still have the expense of the upkeep of the old girl. You can't just walk away from it without some maintenance especially the pitch.

A return to BV would be to a newly built or massively upgraded stadium, not a return to the status quo.

Less than a 5 minute drive to Dewsbury from my house but it still isn't in Wakefield! But i'm sure Michael Carter knows what he is doing.

Anyway, sounds like there could be an announcement on friday. Two year groundshare whilst Belle Vue gets a make over is the rumour.