Personally, I'm ok with zealous health and safety requirements for the sites of large pubic gatherings; there have been high profile examples of how it can go badly wrong.

That said, I'm not a fan of the glacial speed at which LA's do absolutely everything; I depend on their good offices a lot through work and I'm constantly perplexed by how they get away with such gross inefficiency.

Perhaps by knowing that people in the Wakefield District will never change their voting habits? About time this district and council needed a large kick up the backside.

I work with dozens of LA's of every colour - it makes no odds who's in power, the culture of the public sector is deeply ingrained.

I can definitely agree with that.

Such a shame if this is not approved pre-match. Often the biggest home gate of the season and a big loss of potential revenue. We want to get out of the financial doldrums and losing this opportunity is not a great help.

I appreciate safety is paramount.

Some very dedicated individuals have put a lot of hard voluntary effort into making this happen. It is also a city/district wide event when these 2 clubs meet.

Okay I don't know the ins and the outs of things, I accept that. It is just a great shame if the approval does not come in time.

I understand that the capacity remains at 5400 until the new barriers are tested. The testing is not done by the LA its done by whichever contractor failed them in the first place, the club have to initiate this. Once tested and hopefully passed a certificate is issued and presented to the LA who will then allow an increase in the numbers. The fans that are doing this work need to be congratulated by us all, they are giving up their time at no cost to anyone. I do hope that the Club will have the barriers tested as soon as possible so we can get more fans into the ground.

and changed to what party?

Please don't say conservatives unless you've lived on another planet for the last 4 years

At the risk of boring M62 J30 TRINITY

, i agree 100% with all of this especially the bit about the fans giving up their time. I am getting a bit nervous now though as i have a long drive back from holiday and won't make it to the ground until about 14-30. Which are the best turnstiles to head for to save time?

Wakefield is a Conservative/Liberal/Labour mix, it's Cas/Pont etc that return all the Labour Councillors. As for a Conservative Council, with all respect they couldn't be much worse than Box and his cronies.

Ukip/ independent or pretty much anyone other than labour/conservative for me

they are booked in, but its not that easy to get them its not like ordering a taxi they aren't available straight away.

just to make sure that all was done for the game I took 3 days holiday to try and get it done but was just 3 barriers shy, it was completed by the weekend but the council was adamant that testing had to be done (thanks to the previous regimes)
I would like to say more but I wouldn't want get the club into trouble

please take note at how tidier the place is, its not been all about barriers

tickets south stand, paying west stand there should be room for one more

thanks snowie mate.

Thanks snowie for the hard work and updates - it may go un-noticed by many, but there are some who appreciate this.

As mentioned previously, safety is paramount and if something did go wrong with a large gathering of people, it can be catastrophic.

in saying that, i do agree that the council are slow to react to many things and the culture within them is very archaic. if you don't believe us, try getting hold of someone in authority on a friday afternoon (or thursday before easter)

Its a bit too late i know but some one on the cas forum has suggested it may have been better to switch fixtures and play at the jungle this weekend and at belle vue later in the season when the capacity had been upped. too simple i suppose and the RFL would probably have rejected it anyway.

You guys don't have another home game after this till end of May. Finances probably dictated this.

I would personally question the why the fixtures have such a gap between so may games, the Hull game has extended all our away games but surely home away, home away should be far easily for finical issue of all clubs or does wendy ball just take over all sport and sod them

the RFL have got to rethink there strategy

why I'm I talking to a brick wall

Still 5333 according to the WTW twitter account.

I recently bought a car , didnt check on everything , took a bit of a gamble. MOT was due so I took it to the garage , they said the tyres were bald and failed it. Maybe I should have checked that. So I took it home and a friend put on two new tyres and went I back to the garage. They look alright they told me but it still didnt pass the MOT as the other two still needed doing. So i took it home again and a friend put on two more. I phoned the garage told them what Id done and asked them to send the MOT. They wouldnt they said they needed to see the tyres. I couldnt believe it they were the same as the tyres I put on earlier. I told my friends and none of them blamed the garage for not issuing the MOT. They said it was my fault. I now need my MOT to get my car taxed and the garage hasnt room to book me in on time so I run the risk of a fine. Is it my fault , the garages fault or the vehicle licensing places fault ? Think about it...

Cool story, totally irrelevant ananolagy though.

Sounds like a busy garage!

Also there looked to be a lot more than 5k in the ground today. It just shows how inflated the crowd figures were for the last two seasons.

Brilliant analogy and its totally your fault.

5333 would've been 9333 12 months ago with you know who in charge

Whatever the capacity currently is, it is amazing how 5100 this season looks remarkably like 8000 last season....