I hope im proved wrong on this but cant see any team getting a ground built in the next 3 year.

In your usual cheery fashion, you've forgotten the option of "both".

Do you really hope you're proved wrong?

I can't see it either, been down this road to many times but fingers crossed it might happen this time.

Ever the optimist but should there not be an option for Both

in your briefs slang naa i havnt.

One has funding and the full backing of the council. The other has the same moral backing of the council and huge funding gaps. And on the basis land was only guaranteed today I could rationally speculate the Cas project is by no means as advanced as some think/hope.

TBH I hope Cas can move forward with the funding because I would like to see this race really begin when we both have trucks on the ground.

However if you look at the life span of both bids not a sole could deny that only 1 bid has any real pace or tbf "drive" about it, as frankly the other has been plodding along for the best part of a decade and has only today sorted something which should have been in place WAY before you applied for planning permission in 2007!

If Cas don't pick up the pace I can easily see their application expiring in November. IMO it's time for RW to pass the "funding dilemma" over to their supporters club and fans, be honest, tell them the gap and let them attempt to raise some money. I don't know how RW can talk smack about Wakefield with the poor record of development on this front. Let people who care have a go baldy!!

Anyways Cas rant over. Get your house in order, Rodney's on his way to the start line... You limber Richard?

No contest - Wakefield

You see, I've voted now.

I want both, but I think the cash situation and the compulsory purchase needed for Cas is a major spanner in the works.

In all honesty, if we don't need to use the 2m I'd like to see it go to Cas, with interest payments to WMDC, PROVIDING that there is a GENUINE (and not lip-service) element of community use, e.g. to improve training for local RL amateurs and with sports educational facilities for local schools colleges. It's about time WMDC stopped trying to be as good as other councils, and tried to be better.

How would you work out the interest payments on something that costs nowt? It's a loan of land against which to borrow. Cost to the council = zip. Cost to the borrower = the interest on the loan they get against the security of the land.

I hope both get a new ground too, 'cos I hate the thought of Cas sharing with us as much as I hate the thought of us sharing with them.

I'm always skint, don't ask me about money!