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.

Wigan council didn't provide any money for the LSV , they provided the land ( the old Barla pitches and a corner plot of land used by dirt bikes , druggies and for dumping stolen cars ) and were fortunate that this was pre 2008 crash , was originally going to be the site for the ski centre ' Xanadu ' that ended up at Cas

The money came from several sports council funding grants and a developer

Just in time , I doubt we'd get it now

You're quite right Steve,however,I'm certainly not into skiing.After saying that, I do prefer my Sunday afternoons watching my beloved Leyth and on the piste.

Yeah, funnily enough as you say the crash happened at the right time for you guys, if it had to happen. But for Trinity and Wakefield, in general, it came exactly at the wrong time. WMDC was in the middle of plans to upgrade the Athletics Track and gym at Thornes Park & build something like the Leigh Sports Village. Sun Lane swimming pool was getting shut down at the time and was going to move to the park and a stadium and other facilities were going to be built. Then about a year into planning it, the recession came and that was that. If they'd only have started it 5 years earlier and we wouldn't be having this thread now. Talk about timing.

Exactly. I’m not having a go at Michael Carter here or the current Wakefield board, they’re doing their best with what is frankly a god-awful hand. And I’m not particularly having a go at Wakefield individually. All clubs were (and sadly mostly still are) guilty of squandering money on short term gains by buying players instead of investing. If they’d all invested instead then the sport would be in a far better position now and clubs like Wakefield and Cas wouldn’t be scrabbling around for a stadium, clubs like Wigan and Leeds wouldn’t have nearly gone bust etc.

It's the old mushroom syndrome steady mate, like all Wakey fans, were kept in the dark and fed the old brown stuff, I'm sure you've heard it all before from the in laws, when I said the club wanted to buy it back what I mean't was the trust wanted to buy it back for the community, it's been that long since it all started, it's so easy to lose track.

There are 2 sides to every story yet we only ever hear Carter’s

It’s no different this side of the common mate! I honestly think we’ll end up sharing a ground, somewhere up near the new nick at Normy. With a bit of serious ambition & a lot of good luck; the district could end up with first class facilities there - of which both clubs would benefit (& yes; I am a hopeless optimist)!

not heard about a new nick being announced, have you a link

New-ish. Already been there a couple of years.