Average attendance 2018 :

Leeds 12,807
Hull FC 12,175
Wigan 11,773
St Helens 11,479
Warrington 10,088
Catalans 8,354
Castleford 7,848
Hull KR 7,965
Huddersfield 5,721
Wakefield 5,244
Widnes 4,898
Salford 2,966

5 , 244 Average in a 11,000 capacity stadium . Maybe the venture is not financially economical.

I think its a case of shared stadium or stay where you are.

Yep, you've just about covered all the options.

Leeds have. Saints did although with chairman assistance.

I haven’t said Wakefield are unique in this but in the end if Wakefield could finance their own stadium or redevelopment they wouldn’t be in as bad a position. So their lack of financial input IS a barrier to them getting a new stadium or redeveloping.

The club could have invested money in Belle Vue over the last 40-50 years instead of spending it all on players and short term gain. That’s what they could have done differently. The sport is hamstrung now because of the short term decisions made by the clubs in the past.

You still sharing with Sheffield


Seriously though, having had land taken from Greenbelt to allow for Industrial development AND a COMMUNITY STADIUM, for this not to happen, aided and abetted by WMDC would be just wrong (on multiple levels).

We have a council and develloper playing the long game, hoping that Trinity just disappear into the ether.

Both the club and it's fans have plenty of fight left in them and EVERY RL and sporting fan should be on the case as well.
IF WMDC are allowed to ignore their obligations, then, who next ??

I didn’t say Wakefield we’re anymore at fault than the vast majority of RL clubs who took the same short-sighted decisions not to invest in their stadiums. But that is still Wakefield’s fault. And the situation is still the same, if Wakefield had invested in their stadium over the years they would not be in as bad a position now.

Haven’t Leeds council provided funding for headingly upgrade and I seem to recall saints got some money from langtree/Tesco

Lets not forget that Trinity were told not to bid for Belle Vue by WMDC when it came up for sale recently . How is that their fault?

I'm sure I read it somewhere that Wakefield wanted to buy the ground off the Bank of Ireland, only to be told by the leader of WMBC not to bid for it and start a bidding war, as the developers who initially let the club down by renaging on the promise of building a new ground at Newmarket in exchange they wanted to buy Bellevue and develop it for the community.

Ive heard this a few times now & whilst not doubting the veracity of the claim; I’m stunned that fans seem ok with MC’s inactivity. My timeline may be a little off, but I’m sure he, along with just about every wakey fan, had been pretty public in displaying zero faith in Peter Box & WMDC prior to this point. So why just accept being told don’t bid?
Can you imagine if this were your house & someone you didn’t trust at all & who you thought actually wanted to see you wither & die, told you they were going to buy your house back from the bank for you so don’t trouble yourself in trying to get your asset back? It would be absolute madness not to bid; irrespective of what anyone was telling you.
The only understandable reason I can think of is that MC/trinity either didn’t have the funds to buy it back or didn’t want to spend his own/trinity’s funds to buy it back - which as I fan I might have a problem with.
I’m not saying MC doesn’t be have some leeway, as he’s done a remarkable job at wakey, but this doesn’t make him free from criticism & if I were a wakey fan I’d think someone should be asking the question of how/why the club allowed this to happen, rather than simply blaming the pantomime villain of the piece in Box/WMDC.

Quote: Tricky2309 "Haven’t Leeds council provided funding for headingly upgrade and I seem to recall saints got some money from langtree/Tesco'" LCC - no funding though they do hold the lease on the re-vamped stands until the loan is paid off https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... -1-8811875

Quote: Tricky2309 "Haven’t Leeds council provided funding for headingly upgrade and I seem to recall saints got some money from langtree/Tesco'" LCC - no funding though they do hold the lease on the re-vamped stands until the loan is paid off https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... -1-8811875

it wouldn't of ended there would it, had they purchased the ground they would of then been pressured then to get it up to scratch and believe me that would cost a fair bit, and it would of been the same WMDC guys pushing this that reduced the holding capacity