Calderdale has a population of >200,000 people so that makes Cas a weasel compared to the sleepy giant of Fax.

Cas please step aside and let the proper franchise team through HRLFC.

The dates being mentioned seem to suggest that Castleford are also worried. My feeling is that if the works starting in April, thats not soon enough and regardless of being held back by other authorities, they have been talking about stadiums for a long long time and nothing has happened, we had to take our medicine, Leigh and Widnes also took there medicine and came back stronger, Cas and Wakey shouldnt be too down hearted but there inactivity on this front should not be dealt with too sympathetically. Saints have moved, and Salford wont be kicked out because of the Greater Manchester presence that the RFL wants. IT remains to be seen if nepotism rears its ugly head here though.

Cas are a joke. This stadium farce has been doing the rounds for years. Richard Wright makes a statement every 6 months or so but the reality is nothing is happening.
Cas is a big village that cant compete in sl. The best youngsters end up at bigger clubs-westerman, shenton, lynch for example. Cas are a championship club who have sneaked in to sl. Fax were unlucky to lose in 2009. Barrow beat them well in 2010.

Widnes,Fax and Barrow would all be better on and ofg the field in SL than Cas.

lucky black cat must be a pussy cat supporter for the comments he makes.just compare the av attendences over the last few years ,a city might have big populations but few seem to want to watch rugby at wakefield

RW makes a statement regarding the stadium every month. That is called good communication as the Cas fans start getting frustated about the lack of updates. As for your other comments, based on no factual evidence whatsoever, I'll ignore. Besides, Lynch went because of our relegation 2004 - he didn't go for any other reason. Shenton was out of contract and obviously players want to have success. As for Westerman, we wanted to keep him but he rejected that so we sold him. The coincidence was that the sale also secured our full planning permission costs for our new stadium thus saving the club effectively an extra £100k.

a busy tourist destination

What tourist destination?

Would this be the land of make believe, where they have a shiny new stadium and a team that can compete in Super league?

Think the busy tourist destination being referred to is the Xscape and junction 32 shopping village-live and work local to this and would hardly call it tourist destination unless your idea of tourism is shopping and fake snow!

who needs fake snow at moment???
lets get back to the rugby.

Like it or not xscape itself has an average of 50,000 visitors a week, with 80,000 in holiday period, junction 32 also brings in large number of visitors.

Eureka in Halifax has squillions of visitors a year. This has diddly squat to do with HXRLFC - nor does it make Fax a tourist destination. What is the relevance of xcape or whatever to either of the Wakefield clubs?

Is it next door to the halifax ground, as i recall it isnt, if tourist come to a destination, then it is surely a tourist destination? call it a visitor attraction instead if you want, the point is millions of visitors a year will be visiting where the new stadium is going to be, and if you look at the context of where i brought it up i was saying that the new pub/resteraunt the stadium will have plenty of people going past it, even if only a fraction go in for a drink or something to eat that will still create alot of revenue for the club (as well as local drinkers and matchday income).

The fact that there is more to do in the immediate vacinity of the stadium thatn is the case for any other rl stadium, in the northern hemisphere should alsoattract more away fans and there families.

So thats what it has to do with castleford.

Just build the bloody thing

Just out of interest, of the 4 clubs promising new stadia for 2012, have any of them actually laid a brick in anger ? I'm not talking about the endless 'ground levelling', document signing, press releases and propoganda, I'm talking bricks and mortar.

we will do starting in april

The first April fool's joke of 2011, congratulations squire

Other than Eureka being a shirt sponsor ?

2011?

I will keep this post in my little archive. You've got four months to come up with an explanation as to why you haven't started it at that point (or rather your club will). I guarantee it - I guarantee it won't be started in April and we'll be back here pondering once more about delays and excuses. You won't be alone - Salford and Wakey will be saying the same things. You'll then have a further two months before the license decisions on the rest of SL are made (Widnes will already have been granted theirs). The RFL are going to kick your neighbours out - then you'll have another 2 years breathing space.

Hasbro are bringing out a board game based on the past 4 year shinnanigans - "Plan a Franchise" - available in all dodgy toy shops

cynical much?

Of course.

I'm not sure how many visiting patrons then go onto buy tickets to watch the Champions though.

No - just been watching Rugby League for the last 30 years, including the ins and outs of the administration of the game also. I've seen enough pictures of smiling chairmen in hard hats and enough fancy dan stadium graphics to last a lifetime.

Are they on the new shirt?

Buy one & see !

i am waiting for the club to announce players kit sponsorships to buy one of their kits.

No, there are plenty of cracking drawings though!

SRC wrote:Just out of interest, of the 4 clubs promising new stadia for 2012, have any of them actually laid a brick in anger ? I'm not talking about the endless 'ground levelling', document signing, press releases and propoganda, I'm talking bricks and mortar quote


I think there will be a lot of bricking being done next April