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Quote: vastman "Yes it is and it's been invested directly into the club, not into the pockets of players and their agents.

I keep using the term free and I do so because it is totally free and I'll keep on banging home that point.

We didn't own NM, Yorkcourt always owned it. We tried to get a stadium on the back of them wanting planning permission. To do that we got the support of WMDC, who sadly messed it all up. Yet it's important to note that Trinity the club never put up a penny toward the project and lost nothing in cash terms other than a few marginal expenses.

The club and its fans were not the victims with NM, the Council or more to the point its ratepayers were the actual victims.

However that's history. What matters now is that we have the 12 million, money we had a very marginal moral or legal right to have as a private company. This would be different if the stadium were to be owned by the Council, but effectively it's actually being owned by as I say a private company which is highly unusual. A master stroke for the club and technically probably the best option, but if I were a non Trinity supporting resident I might think very differently.

Hence we have as a private company being gifted 12 million pounds or there about's to do with as they please in terms of infrastructure. I'd have said that deal was impossible if you asked me four years ago. I'd have said that we were living on borrowed time and that in short order we would soon become another Oldham.

Without whats happening now we would have no future, we'd be out forever. Losing Batch and Aydin would have been totally irrelevant as we'd have lost everything anyway. So if in the end the only thing our club has had to pay for cementing a future is the short term loss of a few good players then I say suck it up as it's worth it.

The minute that East stand opens, if run right, it's a cash cow and will be from day one because we don't owe a penny, we got it for free. I know if someone gave me most of the kit I needed to start a business I don't reckon it would be long before I was doing quite nicely.'"

Agreed

The poor on field performances of the last few seasons seem to have blurred the minds of some fans.
A huge investment into the club and our 150th anniversary next seasons should be huge grounds for optimism and bring some feel good factor into the club.

Perhaps, when the new stand begins rising out of the ground, there may be some smiles back on faces.

Yes, there's a huge rebuilding job to be done with the squad but, that's nothing new - we've had that for the most part of the last 20+ years