Maybe I`m in a minority on here but I have a lot of empathy for the plight that Wakefield and Castleford found themselves in with their promised new stadiums.
The new grounds were linked to planning permission associated with major building projects that Wakefield council gave their blessing to on condition that the projects included new stadiums for Cas and Wakefield.
I doubt that our Halliwell Jones stadium would ever been built without the deal brokered by the late Peter Deacon with Warrington Council and Tesco.
Whilst we had our own problems with a certain Councillor Hughes who opposed the stadium build and wrote a poison pen letter to John Prescott and thus initiated an independent enquiry into the stadium planning permission. With the exception of Hughes, the rest of the Warrington Council could not have been more supportive of the stadium proposals.
For various reasons the support by Wakefield Council was amateurish and the projects were allowed to proceed without the new grounds being built. (Something very fishy IMHO).
Since then the three clubs(Featherstone too) that are in Wakefield Metropolitan council have been awarded grants for ground improvements funded by the original building companies and also Wakefield Council.
