Quote: Daddycool "As always, very nice to hear from you Brian!
It would take £400000 to fix the north stand. That's milky, allgood, England, batch, max, Tom, and huby. If you think we'd be better off employing that money in this way, I salute you. Of course we still wouldn't own a brick of the ground. A ground we were actively warned off buying by influential people within the city, because all it would do is drive the price up for yorkcourt! The rest is history.
As for engaging with Joe public, our 'award winning' community staff engaged with over 30000 kids in the city last season. More then ever before.
Add to that, we currently have the young man of steel, and the Albert goldthorpe rookie of the year, and you think it's desperate desperate times for the club?? I guess you are still waiting for your prophecies of 1 year ago to come true!! Sorry you had us confused with where your son used to be employed!'"
I can attest to that in a small way too.
My son was down at Belle Vue yesterday. (He's nine) They've been there a couple of weeks running doing a full range of education activities, not just rugby.
He interviewed Anthony England yesterday and loved it.
He's been to watch games occasionally before and calls himself a Wildcat fan but he isn't a diehard watcher yet. But he talks about these visits and wants to go more now.
His friends who are mostly footballers asked me lots of questions before hand so they knew who they were talking to and what questions to ask. They have never asked me before. They are not at a rugby school but he'll be at Outwood soon.
These kind of community programmes are invaluable and is I'm sure one of the reasons we are getting awards.