Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:12 am  

Fully wrote:

You really think that do you?

IMO, GH would bring more - it would bring jobs to the region - just as Newmarket. It has BETTER transport links, is right next to one of the most visited attractions in the UK and will bring a lot of business and prosperity to the region.

As Gaz said on the Cas forum:

It sounds a good argument. It is a good argument. But (unless we're being fobbed off with this too) the Newmarket development will bring an estimated 1,000 jobs to the area. 1,000 people off the dole queue, earning a living, paying taxes, spending their money in the district... Not to be sniffed at, compared with upsurge in weekend tourism because Cas are playing at home. Glasshoughton already attracts these people, don't forget.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:18 am  

RebelRebel wrote:

It sounds a good argument. It is a good argument. But (unless we're being fobbed off with this too) the Newmarket development will bring an estimated 1,000 jobs to the area. 1,000 people off the dole queue, earning a living, paying taxes, spending their money in the district... Not to be sniffed at, compared with upsurge in weekend tourism because Cas are playing at home. Glasshoughton already attracts these people, don't forget.

That's for the whole development. How long will the whole development take to build? 1 year, 5 years, 10 years?

Lets face it, what is the priority? A stadium for both teams - nothing more, nothing less. Right now, at this present moment in time GH is the logical solution. I know Wakey fans won't want to hear it and I don't like saying it but it is. Why?

- Outline planning permission. Designs available soon and full planning permission can be applied for before Wakefield even get a decision back on outline planning permission.

- Solves disputes with the "NIMBYs" as your fans refer to them and Leeds Council.

- Better transport links and stuff that has already been solved. As I recall, there are issues with Newmarket in this regard.

- It's still in the Wakefield district. You lot keep saying Cas is part of Wakefield, so therefore, that makes a suitable argument for you to groundshare at Glasshoughton.

- Jobs will still be created - 1500 in fact, at Glasshoughton.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:20 am  

Looks like a shared stadium then.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:25 am  

Chairman Miaow wrote:

Trinity have been in SL long enough to address the stadium issues - the RFL have given us enough warnings, surely.

Absolutely - there have been years in which this issue could have been resolved and yet we find ourselves literally down to the wire; incompetence, bordering on negligence in my view.

The statement from the club is bland and content-free; safe to say it's not meant to tell fans anything new, but is a public response to Coun Box's move to back WTW into a corner in terms of the groundshare. Worrying times, since we don't have a particularly good record of going up against Box and co.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:31 am  

That looks like the only way forward, at least for Trinity. We may find that Box & co. have actually forced us to do what's in our clubs best interests. If he is so virulantly anti-Trinity, as many on here suggest, he could easily have released the Thornes Park refusal decision before the last round of licence decisions were made, thereby getting us kicked out of SL. By waiting a few weeks to release the decision, he effectively kept us in SL.

I suppose there is nothing in principle to stop us continuing with the Newmarket project, but with the withdrawal of the WMDC land-lending agreement in September, Yorkcourt will, I assume, drop the application?

GH is hard to stomach for some/many I know, but one way to look at it is we would be playing in a superb purpose-built stadium, in Wakefield, as Trinity.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:36 am  

bren2k wrote:

Absolutely - there have been years in which this issue could have been resolved and yet we find ourselves literally down to the wire; incompetence, bordering on negligence in my view.

The statement from the club is bland and content-free; safe to say it's not meant to tell fans anything new, but is a public response to Coun Box's move to back WTW into a corner in terms of the groundshare. Worrying times, since we don't have a particularly good record of going up against Box and co.

Well said

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:44 am  

Reading that article and Box's comments, it seems clear that the decision is already made. What kind of feasibility study would conclude that Newmarket (no planning permission, in fact not even close , plus no funding package confirmed) is a better bet than Glasshoughton?

Why do the club not embrace this opportunity, rather than be forced into it kicking and screaming. We can make it into what we want. Jesus, we even have Cas fans saying they would go to watch Trin if there was no Cas match on. It's all a bit, dare I say it, positive.....

Surely it's easier and more profitable to get on board and actively shape the way our club evolves, rather than be tossed by the four winds in the manner we have put up with for so long?

We have to adapt or die.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:46 am  

poppys mum wrote:

Yes it is 4 mins drive if you live at 3 lane ends and class methley as being just over the bridge.

I live at the other end of cas, it would take me much longer than 4 mins to get to methley.

CAS aint that big...... what a extra 5mins onto it.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:50 am  

Chairman Miaow wrote:

That looks like the only way forward, at least for Trinity. We may find that Box & co. have actually forced us to do what's in our clubs best interests. If he is so virulantly anti-Trinity, as many on here suggest, he could easily have released the Thornes Park refusal decision before the last round of licence decisions were made, thereby getting us kicked out of SL. By waiting a few weeks to release the decision, he effectively kept us in SL.

I suppose there is nothing in principle to stop us continuing with the Newmarket project, but with the withdrawal of the WMDC land-lending agreement in September, Yorkcourt will, I assume, drop the application?

GH is hard to stomach for some/many I know, but one way to look at it is we would be playing in a superb purpose-built stadium, in Wakefield, as Trinity.

I think a challenge cup semi final saved us at that time.

Re: Stadium Statement : Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:54 am  

I think the whole distance from here/there is a smokescreen. People will travel to watch Trinity. How many hard-core fans go to every home game and most away games too? I see the same faces home and away, week in week out - I cannot and do not believe they will simply stop going because it is a 4 or 5 mile drive further to Glasshoughton. The hard-core will be largely retained, plus new supporters will be drawn in by the promise of the new stadium - wasn't that one of the main plus-points to Trinity getting a new stadium? We have a chance here to increase our revenues and fanbase.

We can spin this ground share as a disaster if we wish, or we can embrace it and make it a massive success.


NGBFC - I agree, the Cup semi had some effect on keeping us up. To be honest, I had forgotten all about it - still haunted by that first 20 minutes.......