Where's the rope? viewtopic.php?f=16&t=477920

Where's the rope? viewtopic.php?f=16&t=477920

Heard back from cllr mark crowther of the Wakefield conservative party:
Ian
Thank you for your email

For information I am as frustrated and disappointed as you are and have been publicly behind this project from day one - however due to certain reasons the local media choose not to print anything said by me or my Party locally.

I have been and am in constant touch with Ted Richardson, have lobbied Eric Pickles (clearly now unsuccessfully) to avoid this enquiry and allow localism to prevail and have issued a press statement this afternoon condemning the SoS actions on this matter.

I and we will continue to support the Wildcats in what ever way possible.

Regards

Cllr Mark Crowther

The difference surely is that Saints already have planning permission for their new ground and in fact work has already started so their application will be judged with that fact in mind.

As for the Welsh, does anybody know how Trinity voted when Super League clubs were asked recently to remove the clause relating to insolvency from the 2011 licensing criteria?

nail on head we are knacked the Crusaders farce had killed my pig but this tops it just dont see the point anymore gutted

There have two very viable schemes occupying their time for much of the last few years, and they have both been vetoed by politicians. The club would have been daft to not back either of them, and I'm not sure there is much else they could have done.

I don't say they are perfect, and I have no idea what could have been done that they didn't, but it seems a shame that people just seem to see today's outcome as an opportunity to bash the board. What else could they have done in the last five or six years to have made the situation any different. The issue has not been funding in either case, but political decisions.

Not coming on here gloating at all infact quite the opposite it's a sad state of affairs when we both need new stadiums (in times like these) and plunging ourself into debt to stay in SL. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tad bit glad when I heard the news as a Castleford Tiger supporter however when I think about it, it's a sad day for RL.

Anyway without being patronising keep yer chins up and keep fighting.

Merry Christmas... war is over.

this needs a bigger response now, there will be a shareholders meeting on 4th January 2011 where I bet it will be announce plan B.

if it is at Barnsley then that shouldn't change our position if anything it should enhance it, so we then have to look at playing out from there until the PI has been completed.

our next step is to get that franchise without it were doomed, with it and we have another three years.

the 2012 season traveling to the new stadium should be set up using buses from different parts of Wakefield rather than the two that we use now, and pick up and drop off points on the way.

lack of support away from belle vue will be the death of the club.

Don't you mean a bus and a skateboard at the back ?

Sorry...had to be said

Did hear rumour that plan B was moving in with Fev R at Post Office Road, would certainly attract more supporters than watching NL at Barnsley, dont know if move would be part of a merger or if it eas just on a temp basis. Would we still have investors if playing in NL for another 3 years what would be point of playing in stadium with car park big enough for 25 buses when only playing Batley, Hunslet,(no disrespect) etc. Think it is looking good for Halifax. dont know how much messing about with thornes park has knocked us back. All blinking doom and gloom but will make every effort to make every game home and away.

I agree without the franchise the club is doomed to death or obscurity (in perpetuity)... not sure which is worse?

however I fear that if the move away from Wakefeld is more than one year then that too will prove terminal.

The problem is that you promised ground improvements when you were promoted nearly 10 years ago and nothing has changed. Yes our application has been slow and Richard Wright has taken his time to make annoucements, but slowly but surely the jigsaw is taking shape. The recent news of the lifting of the 'exclusion zone' around Hicksons and today's decision to guarantee the £2 million worth of land from WMDC has made our planning application stronger. The fact that the road network is in place and the land ready to start building on, plus the fact we own our ground gives us a slight advantage.

I really hope that you can find a solution and are in SL from 2012.

Reading rlthisrl and other information it seems certain Widnes will be accepted into Super League and one club demoted.
I also think it certain that Newmarket wil be constructed,but not for some time.
What needs to happen is for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats to ensure it has more going for it than one other club.
Salford,I think,will remain in Super League.Harlequins have a rock solid benefactor.
The weak link is the club in Wrexham who have possibly lost a good deal of any neutral support the club may have gained at Bridgend.The actions/inactions of the 'people behind them' are not good and they are disliked by the soccer fans and possibly the locals.The youth development of rugby league players is mainly in south Wales.
I do not think the soccer fans would object to any actions which upset the club owners and ends the soccer clubs ties with rugby league.
You could start to garner support at Cardiff,in February,posssibly with Cas and Salford fans also helping,and having followers from other heartlands clubs on your side.
Trying to persuade supporters to boycott attending the Racecourse Ground would certainly hit that club in the pocket and while sending a message to the RFL who appear to waive the rules for some clubs,it would certainly send a message to the 'owners' of the Wrexham club.
To make an omelette you have to break some eggs.
I agree with expansion and would like this country to show an interest in sport but the treatment of the fans in Bridgend,the players,John Dixon, and now Brian Noble,Jon Sharpe etc.and the conduct of the Wrexham club sends out the wrong message.
Don't despair for too long - You have a club to fight for !