Selling the license crops up again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:20 pm  

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/rugby ... Ground/amp Unless the deadline can be met Trinity could be left with no choice but to sell their Super League license and ground share with a Championship club. It just won't go away. Scaremongering or a very real threat? Walker has really thrown a spanner into an already complex situation unlikely to bare fruit.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/rugby ... Ground/amp Unless the deadline can be met Trinity could be left with no choice but to sell their Super League license and ground share with a Championship club. It just won't go away. Scaremongering or a very real threat? Walker has really thrown a spanner into an already complex situation unlikely to bare fruit.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:27 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/628066/Wakefield-District-Community-Trust-Sir-Rodney-Walker-Trinity-Wildcats-New-Ground/amp

It just won't go away. Scaremongering or a very real threat?

Walker has really thrown a spanner into an already complex situation unlikely to bare fruit.

Very real threat I believe.

We need something concrete that can be put to the RFL to demonstrate serious intent that we have a new stadium on the not too distant horizon. If we cannot show this our future in SL is under serious threat with Clubs like Toulouse, Toronto and Hull KR champing at the bit to get in SL.

Walker needs to put up or shut up as he is only making a difficult situation even more complicated.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:41 pm  

Sandal Cat wrote:

Very real threat I believe.

We need something concrete that can be put to the RFL to demonstrate serious intent that we have a new stadium on the not too distant horizon. If we cannot show this our future in SL is under serious threat with Clubs like Toulouse, Toronto and Hull KR champing at the bit to get in SL.

Walker needs to put up or shut up as he is only making a difficult situation even more complicated.

Walker has really stitched us up good and proper!

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:16 am  

When Unity Works opened in Wakefield there was a sculpture made of drumsticks (I think) with all the patron's names engraved on. Sir Rodney Walker was spelt something like Sir Rodneg Walker, so I pointed it out to the woman who was showing us round. With hindsight what I should have told her was in the case of Sir Rodney, Walker was spelt with n, not l.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:22 am  

You cannot sell a super league licence, you just get thrown out of super league,and as yet there are no rules regarding stadia,however there are RUMOURS that there will be soon.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:38 am  

I'm guessing this is pressure from the official trust to force Rodders/Box/Yorkcourt into action, as LW says as of now there is no selling of franchises, another of Phil Clarkes crackpot ideas.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:08 am  

JINJER wrote:

I'm guessing this is pressure from the official trust to force Rodders/Box/Yorkcourt into action, as LW says as of now there is no selling of franchises, another of Phil Clarkes crackpot ideas.

Although you cant "sell" a licence, are you allowed to re-locate and if so, how far.
If this is allowed, theoretically, you could relocate and them, maybe, the club could be sold ??

This would need ratification from the RFL but, it may be possible ?

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:12 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Although you cant "sell" a licence, are you allowed to re-locate and if so, how far.
If this is allowed, theoretically, you could relocate and them, maybe, the club could be sold ??

This would need ratification from the RFL but, it may be possible ?

What is most concerning with all this is, just how SRW can resign and how a new trust can have any legitimacy, without the consent of the original trust members.

To the outsider, it's nothing short of a disgrace and the "local" press should be squeezing this until the pips drop but, for whatever reason, they dont want to go against Mr Box.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:16 am  

Liversedge Wildcat wrote:

You cannot sell a super league licence, you just get thrown out of super league,and as yet there are no rules regarding stadia,however there are RUMOURS that there will be soon.

Wrong on both counts unfortunately - The RFL indicated in the media back in March that they would consider allowing existing struggling Super League clubs to relocate into another area, so in effect allowing clubs to sell their current Super League franchise. Super League has also reintroduced minimum stadium standards, pretty much based on the previous set, but at the moment if you don't meet them, as Castleford and Wakefield don't, then it is in the form a financial penalty. So both Wakefield and Castleford have had their SL Central Funding money (Sky money, if you will) reduced this year because their stadium don't meet the standards and that will of course apply going forward.

Re: Selling the license crops up again! : Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:24 am  

I hope Rodney knows what he's doing! Just when things were looking rosy, he takes a high stakes gamble on himself and puts the whole club at risk.