Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:44 pm  

Sandal Cat wrote:

We won't be playing NL at Oakwell though. The only way we will be playing at Oakwell (assuming thats Plan B) is if we manage to get a franchise for 2012. If we don't get a franchise we will stay at Belle Vue and either wait and hope for Newmarket and make a bid in 2015 or 2018 or remain a NL/Feeder club at Belle Vue forever.

I thought Belle Vue was sold ?

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:46 pm  

Was it not chuffing obvious to your BoD that a planning application built wholly on green-belt land would be called in? Yes, it's only the second to be called in during this government BUT nobody else would even bother applying for PP with such an unrealistic chance of success.
Your best hope of staying in SL was to accept the feasibility study suggested and agreed to a ground-share (surely playing at GH would have been better than any other option?).
You have my support as a fan of RL, I think your fans have been short-changed by your BoD and there is nothing I would like more than to see two successful clubs in the district.

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:50 pm  

snowie wrote:

I thought Belle Vue was sold ?

So did i.

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:52 pm  

snowie wrote:

I thought Belle Vue was sold ?

Can you rent it for a couple of years , if it is sold , do the new owners want to build on it straight away ?

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:53 pm  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

Was it not chuffing obvious to your BoD that a planning application built wholly on green-belt land would be called in? Yes, it's only the second to be called in during this government BUT nobody else would even bother applying for PP with such an unrealistic chance of success.
Your best hope of staying in SL was to accept the feasibility study suggested and agreed to a ground-share (surely playing at GH would have been better than any other option?).
You have my support as a fan of RL, I think your fans have been short-changed by your BoD and there is nothing I would like more than to see two successful clubs in the district.

Do you honestly think the RFL would give franchises to 2 clubs playing out of 1 stadium in Castleford. It would more than likely give the franchise to Castleford leaving us to play NL rugby as Wakefield in a stadium in Castleford which means certain death.

All the feasibility study was intended to do was to get both clubs to pool funding and resources at Glasshoughton which would have helped Castleford and not us. Fortunately our BOD did not fall for that one.

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:55 pm  

snowie wrote:

I thought Belle Vue was sold ?

Not sure its been sold. We'll have to wait and see.

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:55 pm  

The other week i attended an audiance with night ..
And i asked the question "have we got a plan b?"
James Elston stood up and said yes we have.and it involves a stadium fit for
super league.i instanly thought Barnsley..
clearly he was talking a load of bull!!!

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:58 pm  

Sandal Cat wrote:

Do you honestly think the RFL would give franchises to 2 clubs playing out of 1 stadium in Castleford. It would more than likely give the franchise to Castleford leaving us to play NL rugby as Wakefield in a stadium in Castleford which means certain death.

All the feasibility study was intended to do was to get both clubs to pool funding and resources at Glasshoughton which would have helped Castleford and not us. Fortunately our BOD did not fall for that one.

I think it would have actually made it more difficult for the RFL to single out one club, particularly if they were going to claim the decision was based on stadium facilities which would be identical.
And it would have been better than being in the current situation. Your BoD are a bunch of imbiciles for expecting to get the go-ahead to build on 100% green-belt land without being called in!
I certainly don't want to come across as gloating as I would love both clubs to do well (as tempting as it is after the years of trolling on the Castleford Forum over the past year or so).

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:59 pm  

Sandal Cat wrote:

Fortunately our BOD did not fall for that one.

But they fell for Yorkcourt's (as it may turn out to be) "Pie in the Sky"

If I was a Wakefield fan it would be the BOD I would be blaming for this potential disaster.

Re: Disappointed isn't the word!!! : Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:59 pm  

stantrin wrote:

The other week i attended an audiance with night ..
And i asked the question "have we got a plan b?"
James Elston stood up and said yes we have.and it involves a stadium fit for
super league.i instanly thought Barnsley..
clearly he was talking a load of bull!!!

how do make that out, did you want plan B to be announce straight after the PI news