I'm not interested in following any side other than Wakefield Trinity. Any merged side would see my interest fade away. They can build the stadium on my doorstep, at Glasshoughton, Newmarket lane or wherever but i will never buy into a merger and that's coming from a family who have supported Wakefield Trinity since it's existence!

Whassup, Mutts? Thought you were one of the pro merger camp? (Humble apologies if I've got this wrong.)

Apart from mentioning Southerwood in the same breath as Brough, Tronc and Newton, the one big stumbling block with the Wakey, Cas and Fev in NL1 argument is that we, Wakey, would have nowhere to call home even there. We've sold the ground, got money up front of over 1M, and if we had to go back to Belle Vue because Newmarket was a non-starter, wouldn't have a hope in hell of paying it back. So we either take what's still owed and go on the road, or pay off the shareholders with what money is left and fold. UNLESS, of course, the company that bought BV are part of the "Richardson Group", in which case we might just have a very slim chance of survival.

As for the merger - not a cat in hell's chance whilst everyone wants the merged team to play in their own back yard, carry their own club's name, play in their own club's colours, etc. And more to the point, whilst ever Richard Wright and Ted Richardson are in charge of Cas and Wakey, you will never see a merger of minds (and on that score, thank God we have Ted).

the man is an idiot.

as i understand it, please correct me if i am wrong.

castleford do not have enough money to build a stadium
wakefield dont have enough money to build a stadium
the council will/can not afford to pay for one either

all three of the above put together still have nowhere near enough to build a stadium.

the only people who have the money are the developers of newmarket.

if the above is correct

does anyone see any advantage to merging.

if you want to go and watch a top SL team go and watch leeds.

i am a wakefield supporter and will never support anyone else!!!

Hit the nail on the head!!!!

Gaslight.

This subject has been put on the Wakey board and got 4 pages of reasonable comments. Meanwhile on the Cas board it has 12 very negative replies. I would suggest you go on there and preach your dream because if you want this to happen it will be the Cas supporters that will stop it.

50% Strike rate at best.

A merged club would almost certainly have the power to stop Rhino raids on the youth being produced in the WMDC.

It would'nt be too much of a stretch to see a team such as:
Blaymire
Owen
Murphy
Shenton
Morton
Brough
Burrow
Mason
Godwin
Lynch
Ellis
Westwood
Westerman

Thompson
Snitch
Griffin
Huby

That said, I would never watch that team because if a merger is forced or the circumstances manufactured by the RFL which saw either club to dissappear , I would be done with the sport!

You may well be right but i doubt the supporters of either team would get a say in it.

Its been done to death on both boards and untill i hear something official then its just hot air, that said i want both clubs to play in new stadiums.

Wilson's premise that there is a business case for merger is without question valid. That there would be passionate objections is also true.

What I find fascinating is that almost everything he says applies to 90% of SL clubs and nothing he says wasn't true 10, 20 or 30 years ago, yet both Cas and WT have competed and contributed hugely to the game in this period.

Ignore the falling gates - ''crowd numbers fall amidst growing unemployment and recession'' shock horror.

Clubs struggling to hold onto junior players - this has been the case throughout the entire 30 years of my being a trinity supporter.

For me the RL at Red hall need to take a strategic lead upon this. I don't for one minute believe in the inevitability of merger but I think anything other than ground share is tantamount to the game pouring millions down the drain - and that is certainly not good business. However at the present time the arbritrary deadline for licences is in danger of forcing decisions at both clubs that threaten the integrity and ongoing viability of the sport in the WF postcode area and wider.

Whilst the development areas are being artificially trussed up by flexible application in rules it is a quixotic and nonesensical to force both Cas and Wakefield to develop stadia seperately in fear of being ousted from the SL clique.

A merged would be the end of me supporting RL I'll go watch Wakefield FC. I support Wakefield Trinity have done for 28 years and always will. Get the stadium sorted and no ones said it won't happen and then we'll be sorted. We're the biggest City in England with out a pro football team and we have the business and support base to support a top 6 SL side in our own right. With the mismanagement and and crap facilities we've had to put up with (worst in rl) i'm surprised with got the support we have. A new stadium would benefit and move Trinity up that ladder more than it would any other RL club. We're big enough on our own just Belle Vue is strangling the life out of us.

IN SIR RODNEY WE TRUST

TRINITY FOREVER

if you merge two teams with no money you get one team with no money. how is that a good business move?

cas £00
wakey£00

cas + wakey = £1,000,000,000

i must be missing something.

if you want to know what happens when two small clubs merge check out sheffield and huddersfield.

hardly dominated superleague have they?

not quite so, stadium issues apart the financial element of a merged club is potentialy much better.

Only one MAJOR club to draw on the big sponsors in the WMDC
A bigger club geographicaly would be more attractive to a National/multinational sponsor
Any merger would possibly draw an incentive from the RFL and/or a financial incentive from SLEs SKY Money

e.g. £1M from the RFL as per HUdds/Sheff & Hull/Gathd + a staged reduction of the money due from SKY if the 2 clubs had remained seperate.

RFL Money
£1M
SKY Money
Year 1 Cas £950K + Wakefield £950K = £1.9M for the merged entity
Year 2 Reduced to £1.6M
Year 3 Reduced again to £1.25M
Year 4 as per all other SL clubs