And you know this how ?

certainly what is needed

but someone like that prob wont get past the interview stage as thewlis will be doing the interviews!

So it will have to be a yes man ?

yes

To the best of my knowledge, the stadium is split 40:40:20 between Town, Kirklees Council and some company related to the Giants.

In a dream world, Town would buy that 20% and it would be used to build a 12,000 capacity rugby ground at Fartown. The crazy economics of football are such that it would be a damn site cheaper to build a stadium at Fartown than for Town to sign a mediocre striker.

Sadly, it will never happen.

and where would we play whilst this dream stadium that you think can be built for peanuts is being built.
Shares were worth £2 each when Davy sold them back. Not sure we have 5 million of them to provide the 10 million we’d need to build it- even if we could find a suitable site. Those who think fartown - it will never happen as the site is simply no longer fit to have a stadium on in this day and age of the motor vehicle.
And that’s without taking into account we have a massively long lease, and we would need to get over all the legal caveats built in to prevent such a thing happening.

Peanuts?

£25million would build a perfectly decent RL stadium. That’s what Langtree Park cost.

Town have spent £45million so far this season on bringing players in.

Town are currently in 15th spot in the table. If that’s where they finish, their share of the prize money will be £108million

Believe me, if Town really want rid of the Giants the money is there. If they can string together a few years in the top flight, they could fart out a new rugby stadium every year and not notice.

The shares in the stadium aren’t publicly traded, so they really are worth whatever the parties buying and selling them want them to be worth. That could be 20p or £20,000, it’s entirely up to them.

All leases and “legal caveats” are entirely surmountable if the parties involved want them to be.

The only really difficult, maybe impossible, problem you’ve mentioned with Fartown as a stadium site is the access. All the other problems are just a matter of getting all the stakeholders to decide to do it or not.

All very well but can the Giants afford to run a new stadium?Not on crowds of 4k and more than likely in the Championship.

I agree with everything Steve May has said, If the parties wanted it done it could could be done. I also take your point which just re-enforces the argument that we are not really a Super league club, other than as making up the numbers till something better comes along, and we are not the only one, Far from it.

Simon Woolford is the name doing the rounds.

If this is true, then to me it implies that the board also think that Thorman is part of the problem. It's realistic to think that if Woolford is appointed, then Thorman won't be sticking around.

exactly.

perfectly fine where we are thanks, move on

yes woolford has popped up today as the front runner

never heard of him but then again never heard of tony smith or justin holbrook either!

former hooker for canberra.

working with nathan brown....... interesting!!! boomer has come here too so no doubt he has put a good word in for him or hes come over to check us our for woolford

we shall see

will he have to work with what we have or get his own back room staff.... think it will be the former as stone didnt get the luxury