Unusual this?

[Mr.Yat]

Must be exceptionally bad...
https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-tr...of-inspection/

[Saddened!]

Yes, very odd. I presme they've pulled the game from Sky as they aren't confident the game will go ahead because of the pitch. It's been inspected and passed twice now, not sure what the continuing scrutiny is about.

[Apollo8]

unusual? its an absolute disgrace.

[Belgian Saint]

Both teams that have played there this season have complained about the pitch state, even though the second one went ahead after the RFL said it was OK. Maybe the disciplinary did the inspection?

[STIDDY]

There was a couple of articles about the pitch not having enough grass on the plastic underlay ans wouldn't be ready until April, it would make common sense to not play on it unti it has the right density.

We know quite a lot of Catalan players had cuts and grazes with a few infected and on anti biotics, there were 1 or 2 players from another team think it was Huddersfield Giants. If there are a couple of bare patches I wondere if its dangerous having a long stud caught in the plastic underlay.

[Thommo]

The irony is in the name of the stadium!

[Tomsepho]

Can we just get rid of them, that club offers absolutely nothing.

[paulscnthorpe]

Castleford and Wakey are ran under the same council, so hardly a one team city - it's population is smaller than St Helens (the City is anyway)

You're right though, the small time thinking of clubs around West Yorkshire holds the game back.. they seem to believe that being a team with good facilities making a profit and being a 'traditional heartland' are mutually exclusive..

I've read today that some of the clubs are complaining that LED floodlights shouldn't be the criteria, again having no understanding of the modern sporting world

[Brian Nazareth]

Castleford and Wakey are ran under the same council, so hardly a one team city - it's population is smaller than St Helens (the City is anyway)

You're right though, the small time thinking of clubs around West Yorkshire holds the game back.. they seem to believe that being a team with good facilities making a profit and being a 'traditional heartland' are mutually exclusive..

I've read today that some of the clubs are complaining that LED floodlights shouldn't be the criteria, again having no understanding of the modern sporting world

Just a couple of small points:

St Helens is closer to Wigan, Widnes and Warrington than Wakefield is to Castleford.

Wakefield as a city (109k) is bigger than St Helens (102k). The Wakefield Metropolitan Borough (353k) is almost twice the size of St Helens Metropolitan Borough (183k).

(figures courtesy of Wiki )