Thursday 23 March 2017 13:09, UK
Wakefield chairman Michael Carter has rejected a ground-sharing offer from neighbouring Featherstone, but still hasn’t decided on the club's future venue.
Carter has a big decision to make as Wakefield plan to leave the club's historic, but rundown Belle Vue ground at the end of the season.
Wakefield are likely to move in with Dewsbury but are also considering a ground-share with Bradford after ruling out Featherstone.
"I can categorically say that we won't be going to Featherstone, it's a political decision," Carter said. "If we were to move to Featherstone, the council would feel that it's job done because we're still in Wakefield.
"There is obviously still the Dewsbury one, which I guess is kind of favourite, but there is another one in West Yorkshire."
Carter believes the local authority still has a moral obligation to help the club build a new stadium - just off the M62 at Newmarket - with planning permission being granted five years ago.
Former Wakefield and RFL Chairman Sir Rodney Walker last month stepped down as Chairman from the Wakefield and District Community Stadium Trust after failing to complete the stadium plan.
But Carter, who has labelled Belle Vue unfit for purpose, says he has not given up hope as the planning permission is there for the 12,000-capacity stadium, they just need to find the £10m- 12m to build it.
"It's not dead in the water by any stretch of the imagination," Carter added. "We've got a new chairman of the trust, renewed vigour within that trust and we're fighting desperately hard to get what we were promised.
"I'm fighting on behalf of the club and the citizens of Wakefield to get what was promised to them at a public inquiry."
