Why wouldn't the club want fans to lobby on its behalf?

I really really don't get why it's "crass", "classless", "blackmail", or "out of order".

They're asking people to support the planning proposal. In the same way as there are always groups objecting to planning proposals.

This is akin to the "screwing the fans out of money" whenever a club brings a new shirt out.

Because this isn't X Factor, and weight of public opinion among those people who aren't directly impacted in any meaningful way shouldn't influence planning decisions.

Because the planning application should be able to stand on its own merits - getting a load of supports to write to the council will not change the technicalities of the application. The planners will either pass it on its merits/legalities or not.

But surely that's the point, the stadium (cricket and rugby) is an asset to the whole city and therefore we are all directly impacted. Headingley is a world famous tourist attraction seen on TV by millions whom otherwise see nothing else of Leeds on TV... The better Headingley does the better the impact for our local economy...

Exactly, hence the reason the city council lent YCCC £7m (or so) to buy the cricket ground from Caddick when they threatened to relocate to Durkar.

Just be thankful you don't have our council. Who do nothing but on us and produce soundbites to say that they are not.

I always wonder if having a unhelpful council is a Yorkshire thing - nearly all the teams from the dark side seem to have managed to get themselves into shiny new stadia - Leigh, Salford, Wire, Saints etc - Meanwhile in Yorkshire - Wakey, Cas, Bradford, Leeds etc still playing in old fashioned grounds.

It is a crass effort by the club to try and mobilise what is in effect a bunch of clueless fans whose input will be an embarrassment in the vast majority of cases.

Tetley Field in Meanwood (bordering Weetwood) is green belt anyhow and a local beauty spot hosting precious local wildlife. I expect the council to reject the planning application in due course.

I've been on the lookout for volunteering and conservation projects which would interest me greatly. Think I'll make contact with the group who are organising the campaign against the planning application to see if I can be of any assistance.

Bollox to the club. It's a privately owned concern anyhow and can go do one.

The cricket side is. In terms of the tourist pound, the rugby side is an absolute irrelevance.

You're a card

So the application gets rejected And if the club has no other options ,how long could the club carry on spending money keeping the Southstand safe?

I would suggest over a year the rugby attracts far more people from outside the city than the cricket especially in year Headingley doesn't get a test match.

How much do they spend outside the ground?

I'd wager - although I know you don't like that kind of thing - international cricket brings in much more money for the city's hotel, bar and restaurant trade than a season of away fans coming to Rhinos games does.

Classic GH. Renew now, for a more expensive part of the ground, even though you don't know whether we'll be playing Wigan or Whitehaven. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7998507

Classic GH. Renew now, for a more expensive part of the ground, even though you don't know whether we'll be playing Wigan or Whitehaven. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-7998507

And LCC has written off1 million pounds of the loan to YCCC , They should have been made t pay t back in full and gone to pay for local services , its our tax money