A director of Super League side Wakefield Trinity said that its shareholders could "consider selling" the club's Super League license if it fails in its five-year "fight for a stadium," according to Ian Herbert of the London INDEPENDENT. The club, which is holding its own in mid-table "despite a hand-to-mouth existence and skeleton staff," has "repeatedly failed to comply with Super League regulations that stipulate 2,500 covered seats." Trinity is "increasingly desperate" for the Wakefield Council to enforce the £9M ($11.2M) investment in a new stadium which was part of a complex planning agreement in '12. Club Dir Chris Brereton said that the planning agreement "stipulated that developers could only attain permission to build on a lucrative site by making a tangible community benefit in return;" in this case, by contributing £9M toward a new stadium for the club. That never happened, "leaving the side at worn-out Belle Vue." Brereton, who with Trinity Chair Michael Carter has "rescued the club from a desperate financial state in the past four years," said that the sale of the club’s license "could be considered by the six shareholders if no help was forthcoming in replacing the side’s worn-out Belle Vue, which is now unfit for purpose." Brereton: "If the club wanted to sell its place in the Super League we could do that. There is the mechanism. We would be loath to do it but there may come a time when enough is enough" (INDEPENDENT, 4/4).
