Is the issue any more or less than this?... (underground)

excellent post

also much has been made of the option of moving the sports facilities planned for N to GH.

do people not realise that to do this you would have to

(a) change the current funding packages already in place,
(b) change the planning applications - more time
(c) increase (purchase additional) the volume of land available at G to provide space for these facilities. who will pay for this!!!!!!!!!!

in short it means that these facilities wont transfer. if N doesnt happen all these benefits will be lost to the wider WMDC community

No point talking sense mate that just doesn't come into it. The area is crying out for quality sporting facilities and Newmarket would be a way of actually providing said facilities without having to rely on the incompetence of WMDC. As for becoming a suburb of Greater Leeds that might not be as bad an idea as it sounds given that Morley have managed to knock down and rebuild their sports centre in the time it has taken Wakey/Cas/WMDC to fail to lay a brick/gain full planning permission for either stadium or a new swimming pool or any other half decent sporting facility. WMDC striving to increase their lead in the national obesity tables.

I thought I'd posted this question somewhere the other day but now can't find it (maybe I didn't press submit - who knows)


As one of the franchise criteria points was allocated last time for turnover of over £2million and assuming it will be next time around,

Where does that leave us and/or Cas with regards to non matchday income from the use of a shared stadium or as tenants of a stadium we do not own??

Presumably a percentage of a clubs turnover is generated form the use of the stadium facilities by other parties during the week. If we are sharing a stadium does that income get split 50/50? I f we are tenants of a community stadium do we forego any chance of this income at all?

Does anyone know how it would work?

Think it was t/o of 4m mate. So no point lost as we aren't doing it now. The question of generating income and having to pay rent however would be issues wherever we went

Firstly, the turnover is £4m+ for licences.

I would assume it would be that each club retains their matchday incomes, whilst ground sponsorship is doubled in price (effectively it is 26 home games rather than 13 so double the exposure) and split 50:50 between the clubs.

At the time of the Newmarket fanfare one of the drivers for it was that as industrial units were going up this would really help WMDC meet their targets for industrial land development and so they would push it for that reason. This talk has all died down now.

Is that because if we go to GH the Newmarket development will continue just without a stadium?

To me this all stinks of the council trying their best to keep Cas in Cas and to get a stadium. I think they consider rugby to be very important to Cas (much more than Wakey) and dont want to further 'de generate' the place.

No the NM development still meets the requirements the council have identified for the district. The distribution warehouses are something he council want in order to increase growth for the region. By the time construction begins on these units the greenbelt land will have been reclassified.

It's not so much losing a point it is losing the chance of gaining an extra point.

If Wakey were paying rent Cas & the council would be splitting concourse revenue between them, Wakey would only get ticket & programme money.

Quote: Gaslight "If Wakey were paying rent Cas & the council would be splitting concourse revenue between them, Wakey would only get ticket & programme money.'" But it's not going to be like that. If it's a groundshare it will be made to benefit which club it inconveniences the most to ensure they get a respectable and fair deal from moving. And Fordy, conference facilities as well should be split 50:50. Cas have already been selling a special commercial section called "Club Fifty". I see no reason why Wakefield cannot sell the same initiative on their own terms, for their games. www.castigers.com/_cmsDocs/Club% ... rtwork.pdf

Quote: Gaslight "If Wakey were paying rent Cas & the council would be splitting concourse revenue between them, Wakey would only get ticket & programme money.'" But it's not going to be like that. If it's a groundshare it will be made to benefit which club it inconveniences the most to ensure they get a respectable and fair deal from moving. And Fordy, conference facilities as well should be split 50:50. Cas have already been selling a special commercial section called "Club Fifty". I see no reason why Wakefield cannot sell the same initiative on their own terms, for their games. www.castigers.com/_cmsDocs/Club% ... rtwork.pdf

I agree, The Trip.

I do not care who puts money into what. For me, it should be an equal 50:50 split with each club doing their own thing as normal.

Eddie on Boots n All sorted it all out so nobody worry.