[url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/leeds-rhinos/leeds-rhinos-hetherington-s-warning-on-the-future-of-headingley-1-8456615[uMore whinging - this time it's GH[/u[/url

Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur.

Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence.

If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough.

Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities.

SCROUNGERS.

Absolutely - at the last set of financials Leeds only had c£2m in cash so that suggests some serious borrowing is required!!

Think Gary is playing the age old game of brinkmanship. The building programme for the north stand looks a bit optimistic. I suspect the local population will not allow night working or maybe Sunday working. So unlike most construction works if work falls behind programme ,major problem look likely.
The situation has disaster written all over it. Even worse Gary may have to pay back his loan. Looking on the bright side I suspect caddick builders will be hot favorites to win the building contract.

Is the suggestion that the north stand and south stand would be built at the same time? What are the chances of this going ahead? Appears increasingly unlikely from what I have read... but I haven't read much!

The North Stand can be written off as the fault of the YCCC and their failure to provide their share of the funding if it doesn't go ahead. The focus then shifts back to the South Stand and why redevelopment can't go ahead. Can't blame YCCC in that instance.

I'm not convinced Leeds are anywhere close to being in a financial position to fund either project. I hope to be proven wrong.

You usually are.

As I have previously stated this whole scenario has disaster stamped all over it. As William quite rightly states ,the club does not seem to have a reasonable amount of cash to fund the project. So it means borrowing a large amount of money. Probably not a smart move as we enter uncertain financial times, brexit and all that. My opinion would be to build a new south stand which would not break the bank. Then take stock of the situation and contemplate the north stand project. Obviously yorks cricket would suffer fixture set back for a number of years. But would eventually get back into the main fixture programme. The downside would be the time factor, it would of course put them several years behind schedule.

Is the South Stand "really" that bad in it's current state?
I know a fair bit of work was completed to make it safe again a good few years ago but can't we "update" the current stand further perhaps?! Might save a bit of money if that's what GH is worried about.

I think GH is worried about money though only in so far as he realises Leeds' chance of screwing owt from the council is zero unless it's done on the back of YCC's plans. And that train's about to leave the station it seems. That won't necessarily preclude the work from being done but it will likely mean having to borrow at vastly inflated terms compared to earlier council deals with sports clubs.

LCC are essentially bankrupt, there's not much chance of getting any funds from them

Nor should there be. In economic times like these it's cringeworthy that a sporting club can have the brass neck to ask a council for some money.