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.

Yeah, you're spot on as usual Lebron we've never heard anything from WMDC over the years

Seriously though apart from the odd RL piece about what's going on with the stadium, Carter hasn't been where information has generally come from at all, plus all this project was well underway by about 3/4 years when he took ownership of the club. Anyway apart from the fact there's plenty about the Newmarket project in the public domain and WMDC have said plenty themselves, so go look it up if you genuinely are interested which I doubt. Most of the information about it has come from the Wakefield Community Trust members some of whom are forum members on here. The leader of said trust is a Leeds fan who posts on here, who took over from Sir Rodders, he generally keeps everyone updated as much as can.

I bet you haven't paid much attention over the years to the ins and outs and who's said what anyway, so to come out with such a statement, shows you up for what you are.

For the latest most up to date word from Peter Box - leader of WMDC, he said in a radio interview the other day, the fault Newmarket isn't being built to original spec is the fault of the then Secretary of state, Eric Pickles. Nothing at all to do with his own planning department not doing its job properly and not hiring land lawyers who knew their way around a S106 agreement, to make sure it was airtight, so a shady developer can find holes in it.

Tbh when he said nick, the huge out of town police station didn't come to mind straight away. I was thinking of a Prison rather than a Cop shop.

Yeah, probably helped I'd mentioned that exact suggestion earlier so we were already on the same page.

Sorry shifty; yeah I meant the Police Station on Havertop Lane.

me too

I'm till looking for the post explaining where the £15m+ is coming from to build this mythical shared stadium. since none of CTRLFC, WTRLFC or WMDC have a pot to......