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

I couldn't see this happen as the council have difficulty wiping its own arris of late

I remember it a little different, wasn't it Sir Rodders that told the club not to put a bid in because as head of the Community trust he'd been in meetings with WMDC and Yorkcourt at that time and they were going to buy it instead of the Newmarket build and redevelop the whole thing and if the owner knew there were 2 interested parties it would bunk up the price. Obviously, it turned out to be bull and was one of the reasons Sir Rodders got the boot from the Community Trust.

There would have been funding. The funding is coming from Leeds and Yorkshire, not the Council. Council involvement has made the terms of the funding better but not provided any funding. Leeds and Yorkshire would have gone ahead with the plans anyway and just paid the loans off over a longer time frame.

In the end it’s a much, much lower risk for LCC to do what they did than WMDC take on millions of pounds of debt when Wakefield Trinity have no assets backing them up compared to Leeds who have around £15-£20m.

I remember a conversation I had with Lordy down at Stanley Rangers who had at the time a phone call from Richardson inviting a teams at SR to use the Newmarket ground for training, was exciting times as he was confident that it was going to happen, what we didn't know is that BV was sold to help keep up with other clubs chasing success a risk now that I bet he wished he hadn't taken as history showed it now left us with no assets for what it was worth

To be honest, both clubs have Crap grounds. In this day and age they are lacking well behind and most of the Rugby league fan base agree. Both clubs have had long enough to sort them out but yet have done nothing except throw the money they have on players. Shocking so called Stadiums.