Walker, Speaking on the Tour de France (Yorkshire) in 2014 in the WE:

The other legacy is a personal one for Sir Rodney.

He recalled that as a child, one of his teachers told his mum there was “not a cat in hell’s chance” he would pass a GCE in one of his subjects.

“I thought to myself, I’ll show you, and this was the attitude I have when someone throws down a challenge to me.

“You have to remember that I was 70 years-old at the time they asked me, and I rather thought I’d become a forgotten man.

“It’s given me personally a real boost. As any active 70 year-old will tell you, you don’t want people to think you’re past your best.”



So Rodney, in 2014 he should (so we were told) have been in the fight for those community facilities, hardly a forgotten man but apparently that's how he felt. A community stadium for his home city obviously wasn't good enough for this man's ego.

How long do we have to wait until the truth is out to the public about these corrupt so and so's?

It will never come out, they will all cover each others backs and wait for the club and trust to disappear off into the night

Hitting those crowd figures will possibly be ok if we stay at Wakefield but, we wont get close if/when we move, Dewsbury doesn't have that capacity.

Who's mentioned 6500 minimum attendances pal, I've not seen that anywhere?

He did say though on there if Dewsbury happened, that there would be work to be done at the ground.

One was floodlighting, and the other was increasing the capacity. I'm sure there was a third. Think he also mentioned the flats too.

The attendance figure was quoted in his programme notes on Sunday. It was either 6000 or 6500. We were close to the 6000 mark for last season just prior to the play offs

If the capacity part could get sorted, I wouldn't have an issue with Dewsbury, at the end of the day, it is just the far side of Ossett, and probably only a couple of miles of a previously earmarked site, at the side of J40 of the M1

The funding is Yorkcourt building the stadium, nothing else. The minimum standards capacity figure is 8,000.

Quote: Eastern Wildcat "Did anyone hear Michael Carters interview on Radio Yorkshire yesterday. He was saying that they aren't asking the council for money to build a stadium, they just want whats been promised to them. In view of that, someone said earlier about finding £20m, forgive me if I have misinterpreted that, but to me that sounds like funding isnt an issue, and the funding is in place. Given light of the situation, couldn't the RFL add weight to our case here, as the sports governing body. He also mentioned minimum standards being brought in, which, is fine, but also seems ironic to have been brought in, the same season Toronto have come into the league. Further more, part of the minimum standards is having crowds of 6,500, maybe if the only games on a Thursday/Friday, were the televised ones. Our average crowd last year, that I read, was something like 4,993, but pprior to all the re scheduled fixtures, we were close to the 6,000 mark'" Is this the interview? www.radioyorkshire.co.uk/blogs/c ... -promised/

Quote: Eastern Wildcat "Did anyone hear Michael Carters interview on Radio Yorkshire yesterday. He was saying that they aren't asking the council for money to build a stadium, they just want whats been promised to them. In view of that, someone said earlier about finding £20m, forgive me if I have misinterpreted that, but to me that sounds like funding isnt an issue, and the funding is in place. Given light of the situation, couldn't the RFL add weight to our case here, as the sports governing body. He also mentioned minimum standards being brought in, which, is fine, but also seems ironic to have been brought in, the same season Toronto have come into the league. Further more, part of the minimum standards is having crowds of 6,500, maybe if the only games on a Thursday/Friday, were the televised ones. Our average crowd last year, that I read, was something like 4,993, but pprior to all the re scheduled fixtures, we were close to the 6,000 mark'" Is this the interview? www.radioyorkshire.co.uk/blogs/c ... -promised/

I understand that it was the Council that asked RW to Chair the Trust.

Sounds like Box has done you like a kipper right from the off then.

The Council never take any minutes of meetings between the Trust and themselves and quite often the meetings only involved the Chairman of the Trust.

Notes of the "Contract" meeting were unofficially taken by myself and circulated so there is a written record although not official Council minutes.

Many of the Trust Board were not on the Board at the off but you may be right.

FWIW I've written to Andrea Jenkyns but, dont expect anything back (apart from the auto reply).
At the risk of going against the tide slightly, has Mr Carter said anything about where Trinity may / will be playing next season.
Every Trinity fan shares his frustrations and annoyance with WMDC but, having served notice to quit, as it stands, we have nowhere to play next season
and therefore do we assume that he has a "plan B" or, could this be Trinity's last season ?

I know this may sound antagonistic and maybe ungrateful but, it's a reasonable question to ask.

Unless I have misunderstood, we are leaving, possibly relocating at Dewsbury, but there are other possibilities. One of them we now know is Featherstone as they have publically invited us to go to there.Seems clear enough to me, and certainly not the end of Trinity.

With Featherstones very public statement that we can play there we now don't have to leave WMDC, so MC's public statements about leaving the area whilst we continue the fight have just been undermined a little. We can now play at a stadium that is a similar distance away from BV than Newmarket would be and a bit closer than Dewsbury. Convenient that they decided to go public then i thought, very generous of them. It wasn't Fev that MC was talking about in his league weekly interview when he said there was one other team he was talking to other than Dewsbury (that he righly wouldn't reveal) and it was outside the WMDC. So i wonder why they felt the need to go public and not discuss it privately? Gives another stick to beat us with if he does take us out of the area now doesn't it? We would have voluntarily left our ground but then turned down a chance to stay within the boundary. Anybody would think they've been asked to put that statement out there. Me paranoid and suspicious? Very!