It's a 100% fact and the amount of support the council has for it is becoming worrying.

I cannot see how that would wash with the council. I believe the council already makes a loss on the Shay with two tenants. What sort of rent would FC Halifax have to pay to make the stadium break even as sole tenants. Unless Copley Beach volleyball team is moving in with them? That would explain the lack of grass and all the sand!

town do not need to pay any extra to make stadium break even. the council needs to sort out its act to get the stadium to break even.

The consortium's bid pays the council 10 years rugby rent in advance.

Its a load of balls! Any serious businessman wouldnt leak details of his bid prior to any water tight agreement being in place. Its not the way serious business is done.

Thanks to our friend Bubba the stadium is an asset of public interest. So any bids that are made for the stadium would have to be made public and rival bids considered.

Wouldn't be the first would it.

The 'supposed' bid has nothing to do with anyone purchasing any of the Shay estate.

So they are going to give the council 10 years worth of rugby rent and get nothing in exchange for it other than turning a loss making stadium into an even bigger loss making stadium, whilst inviting lawsuits from the rugby club. Sounds like a brilliant idea.

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It says it all.

It's now okay for a businessman or men who have clearly stated" The Rugby club Out" and tries a cheap pitch based bribe to achieve this.

The pitch is not part of the Shay estate even though that is why the two clubs are there in the first place and is where the council get most of the revenue from at the moment.

It's now not a public asset and is best used to serve and I'm being generous less than 2000 Calderdale residents.

This person / persons can conduct their business in secret with no details being released until the agreement is water tight.

I could go on and in view of all that has transpired concerning the Shay this must be an all time low in it's history.

Ten years of nowt still comes to nowt!

So they're gonna come up with around £400k up front to take over the pitch and then try to run the stadium on their own? Don't be so bloody stupid!

All this appears to have come from that dip Flea. I take it "The Consortium" confided in him before proceeding, after all they really need the advice of a Tesco shelf filler (allegedly).

so fax will not have to pay anything if their rent paid in advance. or mean equal to?

Don't worry, it's a load of rubbish and a no goer even if a bid has been made (which I doubt.)