Is James Elston Pinocchio???

Quote: TRB "Not got an issue with the rest of the post, but to say that the club have struggled to deliver on the Stadium issue is a bit tight.

i]As someone involved in a small way in the process I saw at close hand the way in which WMDC duped us and dumped us - they were utterly convincing when promising Thornes and there is plenty of evidence to support that. [/i]
As for NM, sure we're all frustrated by the current delay, and we're all conscious of the implications, but all the parties involved have worked hard to get this far this fast, with the only significant delay before this one being the period earlier this year when WMDC tried to force the ground share issue. We fought that then and believe that we were right to do so then and still believe it now. To have any future for professional RL in Wakefield, we need to keep fighting for NM and I only hope that enough of us will support this fight.

Management regimes come and go, so whatever you think of them (and I appreciate where the volume of support lies), we need to remember that Wakefield Trinity belongs ultimately to the City and the people of Wakefield. That has always been my motivation and in that one issue alone I think we have the one thing that still unites all on here - hopefully!'"

I have to say TRB that I hold WMDC partly responsible for the grand mess we are in now. To lead us down the garden path into believing they were going to deliver a stadium.

A stadium used by only one club in a district which has three would not have been fair.
A stadium costing 60 million quid paid for by a council which does not have enough money to throw some salt down on the pavements would have been an absolute disgrace.
A feasibility study costing thousands which wasted months and confirmed what anybody with any common sense could have said.
That stadium was never going to get built fact. It was a pipe dream. Just like the pipe dream taken by the club when promised money by Pearman. What I could never understand about the Pearman issue was that a club that had been skint for years could not have waited a little longer (before splashing out on big player contracts and hospitality suites) to see the colour of someones money but hey!
Going back to the council I also blame them for not banging heads together years ago. They should have helped in the planning process and encouraged Cas and Wakefield to come together in a joint stadium (not a merger).

Rant over.