What's in the Clubs / Cities Best Interests

Quote: Inflatable_Armadillo "Thanks for your post and the answer is simple!

1) I live in Stanley, less than a mile from the site, I think both the wider development and the stadium are suitable for this site and important to this area and the whole of Wakefield, jobs, community sports facilities and the stadium. I will continue to support the development of this site irrespective, ok, it might not be quite as vigorous and having something to lose as a father and local person, the community sports facilities, is making me fight harder.

2) I earn my living (and always have earned my living) as a professional in construction industry. I am a Structural Engineer by profession and now earn my living within a specialised field of the timber industry within construction. Having worked on many of these sorts of scheme back in my Consulting Engineering days, it would be hypocritical or me not to be pro-development (if the site is indeed right!) in general and even more so on my doorstep... I am not a NIMBY!

Before you ask the likelihood of me and my company ever gaining financial from this scheme currently is slim, and only one small element of the project would be of interest to us (and not the part of the company I manage either) and that would be the hotel. Even then it would only be of interest if they were proposing to construct it using a timber frame solution, which is outside my influence or control.

3) I was angered by the approach of the main people driving the objection group, not them objecting, but the means they used and continue to use to solicit wider objection, made up emotive group names, hiding behind those groups to conceal your true reasons for objecting, half truths and lies (in my opinion of course, just for libel reasons!).

4) I have strong sense of civic and community duty, I am an ex President of Wakefield Junior Chamber (JCI Wakefield) and national President of British Junior Chamber (JCI UK) and every year I participate in many local charity events in an organizational capacity. I am also a school governor of a Wakefield Primary school.

5) I am an RL fan born in Wakefield but support another club for very legitimate historic reasons.

6) I have started so I intend to finish, so to speak! I have found myself getting in deeper as time as progressed and I have become ever more emotional invested in this process!

7) I have knowledge of the process and enjoying showing it (even when I am wrong!) not enough for me, resign!