: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:27 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

As an outsider looking in, why not? what is the distance betweem your clubs? You both come under the borough of Wakefield so surely a combined 20k stadium would work better than two 13k stadia? Saints and Wigan are slightly different as we are 10miles + apart and there is nowhere inbetween to situate a stadium, but if we were closer and there was somewhere to put a combined stadium and it meant both clubs SL survival then i'd be for it.
If Milan can do it, why can't you?

We're not AC Wakey, they're not Inter Castleford. We're two different clubs representing two different areas. Why do people constantly drag up inappropriate examples from different sports, different circumstances and different cultures to try and justify crowbaring Cas and Wakey together?

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:58 pm  

I remember reading somewhere that the Stanley site is about 3.5miles from both population centres - an ideal location if a ground share ended up being the only way.

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:19 pm  

Until bricks are actually being laid, as opposed to shat then we are both (Cas & Wakey) at risk.

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:30 pm  

TrinityIHC wrote:

I remember reading somewhere that the Stanley site is about 3.5miles from both population centres - an ideal location if a ground share ended up being the only way.

And how much from the sale of your ground you putting in the pot???

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:48 pm  

Disco wrote:

We're not AC Wakey, they're not Inter Castleford. We're two different clubs representing two different areas. Why do people constantly drag up inappropriate examples from different sports, different circumstances and different cultures to try and justify crowbaring Cas and Wakey together?

I agree with you that it's annoying - and pointless. However, Cas and Wakey are in a unique position in that both teams need new stadia if they are to stay up in Superleague and both teams come under the same council, and no way can one council afford to invest in two rugby league clubs, no matter how different the communities or how strongly each identifies with their own rugby league club. Hull is different because one club has no worries with regard to its facilities and the other has clearly done enough to keep the wolf from the door. All other clubs are in separate towns and boroughs from each other, even though some of us are close to one another, so there isn't the same financial pinch on one authority.

Would it be possible for Cas and Wakey to share a stadium but maintain individual identities within that ground? For instance, by having a Wakefield end and a Castleford end, with separate changing rooms and tunnel on to the pitch and identical corporate and other facilities so that each club could operate separately within the same overall physical space? I dunno. It probably sounds dumb! But especially in this time of credit crunch, unless one club can find entirely separate finance and come up with a separate yet equally atttractive idea (which would compel the council to approve it), I cannot see how Wakefield Council can endorse and/or help finance two entirely separate rugby league clubs within its own borough. Apart from anything else, the council tax payers would go ape!

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:15 pm  

Wakefield council arent paying for the stadium

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:16 pm  

Speedy wrote:

Wakefield council arent paying for the stadium

Aren't they putting any money into either stadium at all? If not, they will still need to give them planning permission won't they?

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:38 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Aren't they putting any money into either stadium at all? If not, they will still need to give them planning permission won't they?

there will be some money input for the baths i believe, but basically it will be a private initiative, Outline planning is in place and the final design will be rubber stamped,

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:49 pm  

tb wrote:

On the other hand we could build a stadium for Cas at the site we've already identified and started work on, with community facilities including a swimming pool … meaning it would be used 52 weeks a year.


Just an idea …

, link ? as in pictures of steel,concrete,bricks and polish workers ?

These pictures to have Xscape in the backround

: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:53 pm  

Starbug wrote:

:lol: , link ? as in pictures of steel,concrete,bricks and polish workers ?

These pictures to have Xscape in the backround

Flattening land ready for the foundations constitutes as work starting on the site