Seems you spend more time reading our forum than you do commenting on Wakey, SWC. You sure you're not a closet Cas fan?

I'm just playing devils advocate here, but would it be a totally bad thing if it was the price to pay for another SL licence and a massive cash injection, such that we were spending Wigan type money next season?

Depends on what price you put on identity. Speculation I know but if Cas and Trinity share a ground its a slippery slope to a merger.

As for the rumour, well it just doesn't stack up. A move to GH will disappoint the majority of the support, which isn't whats being promised.

Certainly not what im hearing.

That would be my position - just wondered what the general view was.

Imagine the big announcement labeled the biggest in our clubs long and proud history "were moving to a little town 8 mile away called cas" AG would be bounced all over the cedar court. On a serious note it must be a big positive announcement for us with the publishising and arranging the biggest venue available in Wakefield to announce it. I'm going for a stadium built in Wakefield that will be done quicker than Newmarket involving a ambitious football club. It's just a guess but might have to change my username maybe to M1 - J40. Whatever it is I hope it's for the good Trinity and the CITY of Wakefield

yes its what I have heard too and surely Andrew Glover new to the club as he is will know the feeling by now of a merger

You never know , when we turn up at the meeting AG goes to the door & points across the M1 & says " say hello to your new belle vue" If only !

I would rather lick NGBC'S ball sack than do that. HTH.

That is one of the two stories I have heard re:meeting on the 8th.
The other was the outlandish story of Parkin funding GH.

FWIW I think it's safe to say that as virtually all rumours revolve around the inclusion of Steve Parkin we can chalk that up as being at least part of the content of the meeting.
Although the version I was told was explicit that Mr Parkin was far from alone & we have phase 2 of our BoD on the way.

Didn't AG once say anyone could invest, however there were no more positions on the board available ?

Yes he did, I was at the first meeting & mine was the 2nd question put to them that evening (re: Steve Parkin & if there was a place for him), he did say that there were no places left but I would put that down to being new to the job and not having had time to look at the bigger picture/had to time to let the dust settle and people approach him.

I would reason that it's improbable that they are/were unknown to each other in a business sense as they were both former sponsors/stakeholders in some form in the clubs recent past. So maybe this has come to fruition since that meeting in Feb, or maybe this is something that has always been in the pipeline (as some are suggesting).

Like many others I'm just posting on the basis of what I have been told.
As I said yesterday; long live the speculation!

If it is a stadium other than Newmarket,you can imagine the reaction from the rest of the game.
The announcement would be treated very sceptically and who could blame them.

I understand that his business mentor and friend is multi-billionaire tax-dodger and owner of the Arcadia Group, Sir Philip Green. Anyone fancy WTW playing out of the Clipper Logistics stadium, with Top Shop as the main shirt sponsor?

Get me Benny Westwood, Gaz Ellis and Danny Brough on the phone - now!

That wud be mint

I have heard that Parkin has links with Sir Phillip Green but I can't see why Green would put money into us so i think that one is a non-starter.

I think the suggestion is that S Parkin would facilitate 'favourable' meetings between his contacts and the RFL.

The large organisations that Clipper deal with will have multiples of millions to invest as Tax write offs and some of that might find it's way into Rugby League sponsorship packages as opposed to other sports who can't get a foot in the door.

That was the point - not necessarily Philip Green, but the general principle of having contacts in organisations that lose more money down the back of the sofa than it would cost to sponor us for a year.

I think that lifelong Cas fan and Star Wars soundalike Mr Nahaboo, may well have woken other tax-sensitive businesses up to the sleeping giant that is RL; in sports sponsorship terms, it's the second most watched sport on Sky TV, whilst relative to football, costing peanuts to get your company name plastered all over.

We certainly do live in interesting times.

The Topman Challenge Cup perhaps!

Could it be that AG has been playing a very clever waiting game with Dicky Wright.
I think it is fair to say it is either us or cas which are getting the boot but AG has never revealed any part of the franchise application and kept quiet.
Dicky also stayed quiet but now all his cards are laid on the table we know they have PP for GH but still no money and is banking on the sale of WR and the RFL taking a sympathetic view to this and if what IA put on their forum last week is to be believed then the RFL cannot possibly give them a franchise when nothing will happen at WR for between 3-5 years.
I get the feeling that AG has always had something that he knew would possibly put us in front but was waiting to see what happened down WR,now he knows it may be time to reveal the master plan.
June 8th will be interesting not just for us but also for cas.

I wonder if they are going to introduce a new signing aswell....

You don't get much right but you've nailed that one. Glasshoughton is three years off at best but more likely never at all.

Is that in your opinion on from some info?

My opinion. My opinion being that it's impossible as far as I can see for any club not just Cas to - sell it's existing ground for the amount they need - gain planning permission to develop it thus releasing cash to develop GH - sort out the access road issue- in anything less than 3-4 years. It's not insider knowledge (apart from the road) it's just common sense. It's 3-4 years away even if all goes well IMO which if NM gets the green light puts you behind us.

The planning permission angle that Cas are pushing is a red herring IMO.