Quote Mike87="Mike87"I don't agree with all this p1ss taking, at the end of the day it's the fans that get hurt the worst if anything happens to their club, I just think WHEN you get this mess sorted your BOD have really got to start ticking the correct boxes when it come to running an RL club, it's ok having a decent team on the field every other year but the team isn't everything, the facilities are just as important, Wakefield fans deserve to watch the greatest game in the world from good facilities just as much as any other fans do, your new BOD need to keep ontology of everything from now on and try keep you in the papers for the right reasons, it's just seems like there's something every other year with Wakefield it's got to stop for the sake of the wakey fans and RL in general.'"
There's a brand new stadium lurking in the background, but its delivery is based on a s106 agreement; before construction starts, the developer needs to build out something like 60,000m2 of warehousing/distribution facilities. The first element is sold, but that leaves a way to go. Best estimates are that works will start in 2015.
In the meantime, thanks to the manoeuvrings of a previous Chairman, BV is actually owned by the Bank of Ireland; that may explain the reluctance of the new BoD to over-invest in a facility that will a) become superfluous to requirements b) isn't owned by the club and c) now operates in a comp where minimum standards have fallen by the wayside.
It's just a shame that BV wasn't considered iconic enough to be saved from evil property developers by the governing body; although I doubt they'd be naïve enough to do that for one club but not for another.