They are really taking the Micky now. They want it all and have delivered nothing. Bite the bullet and pay the rent! www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefield ... pse-10550/

They are really taking the Micky now. They want it all and have delivered nothing. Bite the bullet and pay the rent! www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefield ... pse-10550/

Every other club in SL has had to make arrangements to play in fit fir purpose stadiums. Sometimes at a cost the club has struggled to bear.

Why should we continue to give an exemption to this requirement to a small corner of West Yorkshire?

It must be a real struggle for the fans this, a real rollercoaster ride, Wakefield are doing really well on the pitch, and it is a shame they cannot get a new stadium out.

I am not the kind of person who really cares much about the stadium being old of new just that everything fits together well, I know it fits better as a new stadium but it cannot be the be all and end all.

Blame the council. Rah rah rah.

Never Trinity's fault

Why are WT refusing to pay rent ? Other clubs in SL do it and are successful. Looks like Carter wants his cake and eat it.

Presumably he wants a "Steve Gill" style cake?

Give it 12 months and the RFL can boot them down a league or 2 when Toronto and Leigh move up. Its just a waiting game.
NY and London will also be sniffing. I'm sure Coventry are looking at a franchise too.

Seems to me this is not too dissembler to how Leeds and Yorkshire cricket are funding the redevelopment, lease the stands for 40 years until they are paid for, but keep the income streams. its not like say Salford who have to rent the stadium then get nothing from the match day income streams. not saying either side is right or wrong. but it seems that if the council are building it but Wakefield have control of all the income streams and just have to pay rent then its seems a very good deal.

The "Steve Gill style cake" doesn't involve 15 million pounds of ratepayers money though does it.

All right for some to ground share with a football team though isn't Jools?

Also when you have Cas fan led corrupt Council it's a bit hard to get a new stadium over the line.

Pre Carter era I would've agreed with your petty, small village syndrome comment. But since he took over the club have pushed and pushed for the Newmarket stadium to go through only to be met with incompetence and refusal from the Council.

Yes- a stadium we pay rent for.

This reminds me of a situation in Huddersfield recently.
Syngenta (old ICI) owned an old mansion house called Dalton grange. Was used as a social club by Workers. Over time the company shrank and the members declined.
A couple lived and were custodians of the building. When the social club closed down the couple were allowed to stay.
They then started to run a business from the mansion house hosting weddings and other functions.
They lived rent free, Syngenta paid all the bills and maintenance for the property. So they lived for nothing and made money out of the building they paid nothing for.
Syngenta decided to sell the building and the couple refused to leave - Syngenta spent thousands and 4 years getting them evicted!
This couple couldn't understand why they shouldn't be allowed to live rent free and make money whilst it COST Syngenta. I'm sure you'd agree it was a daft situation.
Why should the taxpayers of wakefield pay for a tiny minority to be entertained and another company to make money. Just as daft!