Agree with all that. I think he is a great asset for the game of RL and will do a good job for Cas. Yes Wakey fans its great for Cas to survive as its definitely one of the fixtures to look forward to

Briefly:

1 I want Cas at GH NOT at NM - I fear the M word would inevitably follow and bear in mind that 2 clubs in one stadium would have to share certain revenue lines as well as costs.
2 Steve Ferres is good on RL and players - not so on dealing with admin and isn't the easiest guy to get on with. Overall good for Cas.
3 My information was that Tesco had 'cooled' on Cas - they have an application for Ings Road and plans for Ponte at the moment - and even if they do look at Cas there are several sites available - some potentially better than WR. I still think WR will end up as housing, but good luck to them.

Interesting times!

Interesting that in his appointment announcement there is absolutely no reference to the new stadium in any shape of form from him or Jack, looks like he's distancing himself from that right from day 1

Who us this robbo chap?

???DW

Dickie Wright at a guess

Who will probably still be in charge of anything stadium related.

Yes, old dickie wright.

Roads are irrelevant as far as us a club are concerned but I suspect that these will be dealt with in the planning application. We have to remember that there's more than just the WR site being developed down there over the next decade or so. These changes will be done by Opus as the developer, I believe, and has already been mentioned in the Castleford Growth Delivery Plan made public two weeks ago.

All we need is PP on the WR site.

Hit the nail on the head there. Many Cas fans try to pick weaknesses in YCP/Langtree funding of Newmarket but looking at both projects objectively ours is clearly more realistic. The recent interest from Persimmon suggests that housing is still considered viable, will they be willing to pay more than the few millions that Ben Baileys was? The fact that they are considered as an alternative to Tescos suggest to me that Tescos are not willing to pay any more than what the land is valued at.

As for RW I don't think there is any more he can do or could do to deliver the GH project. The difference between the value of WR and the construction of GH is just too big of a gap to fill. Whats happened is that he has come out with so much bull regarding GH that it got to point of embarrassing, he had lost all credibility. I can't really see what Ferres can do to change the funding situation. At least we can expect him to more honest and not continue the one upmanship that RW has been involved in over the last few years. Interesting times ahead.

Think Steve Ferres will do a good job for Cas as he appeared to do for us and Bradford.Only trouble is he a jinx look what happened to us and now bradford hope he goes well at Cas.

If its who I think it is, he has some retail in between "that bridge" and the other bridge over to lock lane, amongst other things.
I think he has some shareholding at cas and understandably doesn't want a dirty great tesco, over the roundabout.