Their chairman being interviewed now saying that it should have been a no brainer and that with the withdrawal of Crusaders, they should have been in instead of us.

Bless him!!

and hes right. You havent delivered what you said you going to deliver in the last three years. Why not give them a chance?

Very confident we will move forward now!

You went bust you !!!

Fax have kept their nose clean and fulfilled the criteria asked of them.

I'd be fecking bitter too!!!

He should bear in mind if either Trinity or Cas fail to deliver or start a new stadium next year than Halifax still have a chance of coming up. Don’t burnt your bridges.

Teddies are out of the pram!

Bless him! Wakefield this, Wakefield that. It's about more than a nice ground, which we will have soon enough i'm sure!

I do feel sorry for Fax but we now have to prove people wrong and kick on like we said this time.

And we're the only ones not to have delivered are we???

It was judged on what was in the licence applications according to Richard Lewis and ours was stronger than theirs.

Well he has a point. It makes you wonder if the RFL will ever let Halifax back into the top division.

You've got 3 years to sort your act out. Your club was out for the count but you've been given a second chance. I think this is the beginning of a new era for the club as your board appear to have the right intentions and want to take the club forward.

The most sensible thing i've ever seen you post. Fully agree.

And it involved input from Savilles and KPMG so these independent professionals will have assessed finances and facilities which were the areas the Halifax Chairman clearly had a go at. I can understand him being disappointed but his comments were bang out of order.

The sad thing is that he's right

3 years ago Widnes not considered because they went into Administration. 3 years later this was ignored in Wakefields favour, you can see where halifax are coming from.

Hard news for Fax to take, but our application was stronger.

It should be borne in mind - they've emphasised several times that these licences can be withdrawn any time they choose, so if ourselves or Cas don't put our money where our mouths were, we'll be out and they could get the call.

Best thing is to work with the RFL, not against them, as has been proven in recent weeks/months at Belle Vue it seems.

The simple fact as I see it is Halifax were competing against Widnes and Barrow for a licence. They lost out to Widnes and everyone expected that to be it but they were given a second chance. I suspect the RFL knew Crusaders were struggling and were also keeping a watching eye on how we were going under the new regime and thus Halifax were kept in as an insurance policy.

Halifax clearly would not be stronger than us in the community, commercial or youth development areas (and to be fair you would not expect them to be), I suspect Savilles have seen the plans to temporarily upgrade BV and the NM plans and felt these are suitably strong as well.

hands up whos seen the applications , no i thought not . how can the halifax chair call ours without seeing ours ... its all done on points we scored an A on many areas and on the community ect was heralded as the blueprint ... littlerich should return to being a comedian instead of a politician .

i really feel sorry for halifax i thought they would get it , but they have not . they need to concentrate on getting instead slating Wakefield

Fax should just keep there cool,And know if no stadium is built this time around they will be in

You are very proud of your communuity work and youth structure. All very easy to set up when you have millions of Sky money coming every year. You have had a decade to build a new stadium and done NOTHING. Why should you be given an extra year?

Well said Michael Steele.A club in admin,with a ground that hasn't been improved in at least the last 3 years,no approval for a new ground gets in ahead of a club that has ticked all the things that Wakey haven't.The rfl have just compounded what every decent supporter of rugby league already knows IT IS BENT.Good luck to 13 teams in SL for the next 3 years and if anyone from Wakey comes anywhere near me asking for my support as a resident of Wakefield there is only 1 thing they will get told P*** **F

Alot of funding comes in from elsewhere for the community work off the back of the value it offers and the youth structure is supported by squadbuilder and our new 1873 lottery scheme.

If were gonna talk about Sky money what about the two years of money we never got. As I said you were competing with Widnes and Barrow for a licence and lost out to Widnes. Clearly other than perhaps Crusaders , you were always going to struggle to have a better overall bid than the existing SL clubs because said clubs have all the infrastructure required in place.

You could always move to Halifax.

Factually wrong on two points.

1. I'm almost certain that the community dept at WTW is cost neutral, as Davide Longo and his team have consistently generated a massive amount of grant income.

2. As for stadium - we'll be playing out of Newmarket in 18 months time.