It's unlikely to have any impact, because there is no stadium at Glasshoughton to play rugby in. I'm not interested in the merit of his letter. The inquiry will look at all of those.

By stressing the merits of Glasshoughton and saying that Wakefield pulled out of the feasibility study is implicity saying that Newmarket would be wrong and unnecessary, as he is pointing to the availability of an alternative and referring to his view of Wakefield's unreasonableness. It is a letter of objection in all but the word "object" appearing in it.

So the Castleford CEO is objecting to the provision of a stadium for a rival club. That is what is getting peoples' back up. What would be your view if Mr Glover wrote a letter to a planning committee dealing with Tesco's development of Wheldon Road on headed paper objecting to it? Pretty dim, I would imagine.

And I don't think Glover has commented on Tesco plans for Wheldon Road by saying come and play at Newmarket, which is the equivalent of what RW has done. Or don't you get the point?

Oh come on arent the wakefield fans being slightly sensitive and over-reactional in all this......deary me!!!! and the last time i was in here this particular board was for Castleford fans, not Other teams fans crying in their beer complaining about big bad wolves.....grow up please. any chance a mod can grow a pair and delete these pathetic threads.

No it isn't...at all.

RW was ASKED if Wakefield REFUSED a feasibility study - they did he was also asked if Wakefield would be able to play at Glasshoughton - they are.

So all he has done is answer 2 questions that will have no effect on the PI outcome. Glover has no business at all in the Tesco business whereas RW was involved and was fully supportive of the feasibility study which Wakefield had rejected.

RW had no business responding to the NIMBY's and by doing so, he added his support to their anti campaign and made CTRLFC an objector to NM. It's egregious, lacking class and an entirely unncessary act by an increasingly desperate man.

You'll feel the same way yourselves at some point soon I suspect, as he's probably just put the final nail in the coffin of Cas potentially playing out of NM; an exercise in bridge-burning that he may live to regret.

Cas have NEVER planned on playing out of Newmarket, the only backup that has been talked about is the Keepmoat Stadium, which is:
A. Already built
B. Not that far away
C. a fantastic little stadium.

No he didn't. That's you twisting it. It would have been considered whether sent to an objector or the Inspector himself.

Would AG comment? No, he wouldn't because, with all due respect, a stadium plays no part in the plans for WR or the supermarket. It does however, free up the funding for said stadium. Castleford Tigers' ground has been given the green light by planners already and has full PP.

In all due respect to this, Wakefield/Yorkcourt have to justify the special circumstances for building a new stadium there. The content of the letter formulates part of this and would be taken into consideration anyway given the proposed ground is on greenbelt.

A nice romantic thought,but totally incorrect.
There is no requirement for a city to have a cathedral.
eg:Sunderland,Hull,Nottingham and the list goes on.

There are also many towns that have cathedrals but dont have city status.

eg Blackburn and Chelmsford

I am no fan of Richard Wright but all he has done is repeat what he said when the Council wanted to do the study into the two sites before Wakefield turned it down.

I'm sure Leeds City Council and the Nimby groups are delighted R.W is taking flak on their behalf.