planning

FlatCapper Once passed the remaining length of the journey is in Axioms hands and it is in their interest for that joirney to be as quick as possible.

TheFirm damn straight. They could have used many reasons to pull out. They could simply have refused to pander to the EA and run away but they’ve kept spending money.

The actual cost of the Cas rebuild is less than the cost of changing the motorway roundabout at j32. To them it’s relatively cheap especially when the end game for them is the profit at Glasshoughton.

The updated plans are on the portal now showing what each room does. I’m more than impressed.

Extra boxes, lots of changing rooms and the medical stuff. Players areas and staff offices.

Is going to be fantastic.

RaoulDuke
yes i had a look at many of teh documents & they seem to have covered every need & facility in depth & if it comes off it will be a very good stadium.

RaoulDuke
the only thing I’m a tad disappointed with is that it is still in many people’s eyes a “small pitch” & i get sick of hearing people going on about it.

yorky I’m with you on this but what annoys me more is that I see some other SL pitches that have also had the lines adjusted to, presumably, accommodate a shorter pitch. Hull’s being the most notable.

Yes other clubs do it and nothing is said. Our ground is within permitted rules. It works be nice but I didnt think we could fit it in and certainly not within our financial scope.

And you know what, I don’t understand why we aren’t the king of 40/20s. Or why other clubs can’t do it more often.

But it is what it is, the same playing field for both teams.

Yup,Sky as ever will be trotting out the usual “short pitch” rubbish, almost guaranteed it gets a mention in the first ten minutes. There would be some scope to gain a few extra yards by pushing back the railway end but the additional capacity that would give us would no doubt be outweighed by the additional costs. The plans as is look great if they come to fruition, and fingers crossed I’ll be around long enough to enjoy them, but I definitely feel more optimistic than I did at the end of last season.

Maturecasfan me neither, i hope someone on here can throw some light on it?

Jepson now owns the stadium/land.

I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s fronting the cash to do the build ASAP then the eventual money from Axiom be owed to him.

TheSheriff

So jepson owns the ground/land.
Fulton still owns the club.
Is that how it works.

Maturecasfan It would look like he owns the land and stadium but the club have security of tenure. That aside their could be many permutations, none of which we’re privy to, though as a private limited company with shareholders Companies House have to be notified of any material changes in share holding or ownership. As this hasn’t happened I’d assume the ownership of Castleford Tigers PLC hasn’t changed,and if it does it will very quickly be put into the public domain. Having said all that it would appear Mr Jepsons involvement and influence is ever growing.

Hepworth the only person that ever mentions it is ratboy Tompkins and unfortunately he’s now a commentator for sky.

Hepworth in the IMG farce, you have to own your ground or have a certain portion owned to get the points.

If Mr jepson wasn’t a director then we would be renting and no points. So all good in that sense.

Maturecasfan Jepson doesn’t ‘own the land’, the club does. He does now though has a charge on the ground for money he has lent us. The Fultons have also registered a new charge on the land on the same day. Whether this is new money Jepson has lent us or the original investment was in fact a loan we don’t know. Either way 3 parties theoretically now have a call on the land if we don’t repay.

TheFirm
so is this action putting the club further in debt?

yorky Impossible to know from what is in the public domain. Could be, although the land is only worth so much and it was already well ‘mortgaged’ to the Fultons anyway. Or it could just be a restructuring of the debt. If for example Jepson has loaned extra money (say for the ‘stop gap’ IMG ground works ) and to allow this the Fultons have lessened their charge on the land (written off part of the debt if you like) then the overall debt will be the same, just owed to more people.