Yes, a reasonable amount of money too IIRC.

If I remember correctly the monies from matchday catering were surrendered to some guy whose name escapes me in return for the prefab 'shop' in the car park. Turned out the guy was raking money out of us whilst the second's hand and portable building that he owned cost nothing like that much. He basically lent us something he owned and we handed over a top revenue source.

Probably more to it than that but that was roughly it, I think.

I've said it before Ted was not as bad as some make out, in fact, he saved the club when nobody else was interested, Please don't pretend they were because they weren't, it was all emotion and hot air.

However, Ted was in all respects a well to do market trader and his inabilities to run a more corporate club became exposed as the game moved on. He and his family simply didn't have the expertise to run the club in a modern way and this is a perfect example. Potential revenue streams became lost or grossly undervalued and in the end, we simply couldn't fund ourselves,

I really have a soft spot for Ted as people know, he wasn't a bad lad in his way. However, under the new regimes, you can clearly see where it was going wrong. There is nothing overly special about MC and the rest other than their apparent honesty and professionalism. He's just a proper and decent CEO used to running larger type businesses who just employs modern methods. Food/hospitality will have been one of the first things he would have looked at, I'd have liked to have seen his face.

PS: The best example is the Stadium. Under Ted and Sir Toad it would all have been done on drink-fuelled matey meetings with lots of funny handshakes and then right at the very end somebody would have realised that nothing was signed and nobody was accountable and well you know the rest. I may be being a bit unfair but you get the idea.

You’ve got to ask your self “why did rw sell us down the river “ when he was allegedly a trinity fan ? Beggars belief

MONEY

Honestly, I and most others have no idea. I'm yet to see what he's gained or to put it another way I'd be breaking the law to speculate.

It was, without doubt, the turning point where NM was concerned, from that point there was no way back.

I'll guarantee you one thing when the new stand is built RW will undoubtedly find a way to claim the credit, watch this space.

According to Yorkshire Live "hundreds more spectators" are included with the planning application https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/wes ... e-22487718 I do hope they are right !!

According to Yorkshire Live "hundreds more spectators" are included with the planning application https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/wes ... e-22487718 I do hope they are right !!

just an idea could be used for touring national teams New Zealand: Australia to train and prepare?

Could well do, vasty
Would you believe that at the public hearing eleven years ago, which I attended, he officially stated that he was responsible for bringing about the then new Wembley Stadum

[list

I don’t like the honours system as it is and Walker is a perfect example as to why.

You won’t be surprised that I’m not against it all together. but I’d be much happier if it was just enough handed out for a balanced House of Lords, I mean it’s not like they do anything much. Also a handful of honorables actually picked by the Queen and close advisors for knighthoods and other gongs and not by politicians and civil servants. I’m pretty sure Liz would get most of them right and I doubt that would include Rodders.

I support a limited version of it because I think it makes us stand out a bit from the rest of the rather bland Eurozone. A bit of good old fashioned pomp. Shows we were able to keep our traditions because we didn’t keep losing wars (Germany) or surrendering (France) or just being plain load and vulgar (USA). I don’t really care so long as it keeps the rest of the world interested. Being noticed even for daft things is better than not being noticed at all (Australia or Canada).

It could be quite a nice institution if it wasn’t so clearly bent

My bro came up with a good suggestion this morning regarding the forthcoming building works - instead of us die-hards asking for regular progress updates, how's about the club/builders put one of those time-lapse cameras on the roof of either the North or South stands pointing at the East stand so we can permanently view the on-going transformation ???