You seem to think that Ted has put cash into the club in the same way that Roman Abramovich has ploughed cash into Chelsea!!!

The club is definitely better off with the lower wage bill following the 3 departures and we got a relatively small amount for Brough (about £15k to £20k). The flip side of course is that we now have the wages being paid to Cooke, Kirmond & Leano, who we won't be paying as much in total as we paid the 3 who have left us but the net benefit at the end of the season will be no more than £50k.

£50k is not going to make any difference to the financing of the new ground. Obviously the land from the council would make it a slightly easier deal for the bank to support, but I think we may find that sufficient finance can be raised for Newmarket without the need for additional land from the council to support the deal.

Trying to look objectively, without my amber-tinted glasses:
Castleford have outline planning for the proposed stadium, granted with no objections.
Wakefield do not have outline planning permission, and the current application has many objections.

Castleford have appointed architects who are working on delivering detailed plans for the stadium and surrounding area.
Wakefield have not put the plans out to tender or involved any architects.

Wakefield have outline funding but this is from a company who want to built industrial units around the stadium, which will probably be rejected as the land is greenbelt.

And finally - the RFL are probably fed up of Wakefield using lies and deception to stay in Super League. The council probably realise this and therefore see Wakefield more at risk of losing their place in SL, so building the stadium there would just be silly!

Okay, maybe I kept those amber-tinted specs on!

One plus today is Batley winning the Northern Cup which takes away's one of Widnes's options for SL Status. Batley for the double ?

was really pleased about that! well done bulldogggies!

oooh i can hear you clutching at straws from here, which happens to be batley

however as a cas fan, i'd rather have wakey than widnes. for my money widnes bring nothing to super league.

So you are saying that Wakey have paid architects a lot of money to draw up detailed design plans on Newmarket when outline planning permission hasn't even been accepted?

dont believe either club,ilstand by that and never have,false promises always

What do you think the loan guaranteed by the council was for?

Yes they do .....more fans

and less wheels on your car on the way home.

nice one

No idea, that's why i asked the question. Usually no one pays lots of money up front for something they might not even be able to have. I would have thought, a little sketch showing some ideas would be drawn, then outline planning permission accepted on some of those ideas. Next is the detailed design including everything, which is then scrutinised before finally getting the nod from the council.

But you're saying the council have guaranteed a loan to pay for detailed planning permission? So the council must be confident that Newmarket is going to go ahead, otherwise they wouldn't guarantee a loan surely? So no worries for Wakefield from this comment then?

Indeed, but that was when Cas seemed to have things in the bag so everything was fair.

What else would cost £150K and be used to pay for something called a design fee? It certainly wouldn't be for just the outline drawings. Anyhow it matters little if you don't believe me.