Quote: Redscat "Don't quite agree Vasty. I've no quaims about the small businessman who makes enough for a nice house, nice car and nice holiday, but ever since a certain female (?) prime minister of the eighties who instilled into the businesses of this country that greed was the new God and to make as much money for yourself and stuff the rest of us, then this has become the mantra for large businesses, and manifests itself in the Yorkcourts, 88Ms and Rodney Myersdcough Walkers of this world . Wakefield Trinity RLFC and the citizens of Wakefield are the ones who suffer whilst they count the pound notes.
As for being "Unlucky at every turn", Vasty, luck has not come into it . It's all been a very cleverly construed conspiracy to make vast amounts of money out of thee and me and 340,000 others.'"
Well lets ignore your relentlessly left wing political mumbo jumbo, if that's what you believe then fine.
However regarding luck you're utterly wrong. Remember I was in this right at the start 1n 2004 and I know the full set of events better than most.
You're are correct in that he Yorkcourt has been a set up from day one. Even then though we were unlucky, in the panic of losing the Thornes project Ted panicked and got in bed with the first developer to show an interest - he was unlucky that the first responder was Yorkcourt.
There were other issues regarding Thornes and I can't guarantee that it would have happened however there is no doubt that had the 2008/9 financial crash not have taken place for just another year or so it might have. Once that happened we were stuffed with and I can't blame Box for that, just bad timing.
In 2010 when franchising was the be all and end all Ted used the ground as insurance to loan money to bring the ground up to scratch. He had little choice to be honest even if he did it in a typically underhand way. The bad luck wasn't that Ted then couldn't afford to buy it back as planned. The bad luck was that the following year franchising was scrapped and all the money wasted on meeting some very silly requirements need not have been spent, just like the the RFL pulled the rug and we'd lost the ground for a fad.
Then Over comes in and instead of doing the obvious thing and securing the ground back he wastes a fortune on TV adds and other nonsense.
As a club we have not helped ourselves but.... I can't think of a single lucky break regarding the actual ground we have had in the past 14 years, not one.