Tell you what Jungle man, we may not get a franchise and if we don't i will find it hard to pump anymore money into the RFL by attending international games etc.

We may not have been the best side in the League but we certainly have contributed to the entertainment. Im sure you remember the game in 2006 when we sent you down, which i think has happened twice since super league started. Your mullet wearing, banjo playing, webbed fingered fans were not so smug then were they!

We will come back from this, but Wakefield will never die!

I bumped into Francis Stephenson yesterday & had a chat about this week's developments. While the full details of our contingency plan will only be made public after the shareholder's meeting on Jan 4th, he was very clear that our focus remains on Newmarket.

I cannot see a ground share happening with Cas - even as a temporary move.

I am confident that planning permission will ultimately be granted - what I'm not confident about is whether we will be able to make sufficient progress with the public inquiry to satisfy the RFL when it comes to next year's franchise decision.

This isn't Ted's fault at all.

The biggest obstacle to us not having a stadium sorted in the last 8-10 years is Peter Box. He screwed us with Thornes Park & he did his best to screw us with Newmarket. We finally have a feasible & financed plan that has the backing of the council. All that remains is for Pickles to pull his finger out of his fat backside and get the public inquiry started as soon as possible.

Ted is sharing the opinion of the vast majority of Wakefield fans. I didn't see many glum faces at Belle Vue when he announced that we would go it alone. I'm sure at the forthcoming shareholders meeting there will be very few, if any, wanting to share at Glasshoughton. There will be some stormy scenes if Glasshoughton is included in any Plan B!

Trust me to drop on an interlectual

Go on then point for point why you will and Wakefield wont?

Don't bite, don't bite, don't bite........ oh sod it!
what an ill informed, biased pile of twaddle.

We are not turkeys, and if we were we would not be voting for Christmas.

There would be absolutely no benefit whatsoever to WTRLFC playing at a ficticious stadium in cas which will not be built in time to form part of our franchise bid. The only beneficiaries would that self-same club who are widely accepted to be our main (only?) rivals for top-flight survival.

The future of the club is firmly in the hands of those vested with the responsibility of negotiating the terms of plan B. (which is really plan C, incorporating longer-term plan D as I'm sure plan B was finding somewhere to play at the start of 2012 before NM was ready to use in June)

Somehow I'm still optimistic. Cas's perseverance with GH now that the bar has been lowered somewhat could be their undoing should it not progress as quickly as they are hoping. NM was always a gamble that SL would accept promises of incomplete stadia in the franchise applications. Perhaps a ready-made stadium deal is a safer option now, given the time-scale.

I actually think theres a very real chance that BOTH clubs will be demoted and Widnes and Halifax come up to superleague. Although it wouldn't surprised me in the least if the RFL find a way to sneak Toulouse in there somehow.

Makes complete sense if you have your RFL goggles on:

Add Widnes and Fax, remove Wakey and Cas. Where you had one SL derby, you now have two.
Add Wakey and Cas to the Championship and create three local derbies with Fev where before there were none.

Toulouse should stay out of it. We need one trip to France.

do you think the wakefield council are fully commited to a stadium for the city of wakefield ?

I think wakefield coucil have more than proved they are commited to a stadium, they did all they could to pass the outline planning for you didn't they.

Er Wakey council had nothing to do with the Leigh sports village squire, do keep up

It's like watching 5 year olds fight. Get a grip people.

Well one things for sure how and where we finish up it will not be the fault of Cas or its fans, but its not difficult to see how quickly some of you Cas fans get confused in your excitement to try and wind people up on here.