Quote: kinleycat "anyone any ideas who is going to be instructed as administrators? O hara did crusaders ( a gentle nod towards anyone at WTST who may wish to pose some questions as a legitimate shareholding group) you can get them on 01924 477449 (Peter O Hara and Simon Weir) or 01302 343477 Graham Gaging) or perhaps email O'Hara's would be the obvious choice as potential Administrators given that they did Crusaders so they know what the RFL require to allow the club to continue in SL this year. While any Administrator would be prepared to spend a bit of time answering outline questions from anyone, I don't think they'd go into much detail with anyone other than whoever formally appoints them (i.e. the company or the bank).

Quote: kinleycat "anyone any ideas who is going to be instructed as administrators? O hara did crusaders ( a gentle nod towards anyone at WTST who may wish to pose some questions as a legitimate shareholding group) you can get them on 01924 477449 (Peter O Hara and Simon Weir) or 01302 343477 Graham Gaging) or perhaps email O'Hara's would be the obvious choice as potential Administrators given that they did Crusaders so they know what the RFL require to allow the club to continue in SL this year. While any Administrator would be prepared to spend a bit of time answering outline questions from anyone, I don't think they'd go into much detail with anyone other than whoever formally appoints them (i.e. the company or the bank).

agreed, but they would be obliged to look into raised concerns from shareholders, a "heads up" if you like.
i would also suggest someone contacts the rfl raising shareholders concerns, baring in mind ted is under appeal still at the moment, perhaps he can be immediately suspended pending an inquiry??

Quote: kinleycat "anyone any ideas who is going to be instructed as administrators? O hara did crusaders ( a gentle nod towards anyone at WTST who may wish to pose some questions as a legitimate shareholding group) you can get them on 01924 477449 (Peter O Hara and Simon Weir) or 01302 343477 Graham Gaging) or perhaps email Please remember that we have been working on the Supporters Trust for several months, long before all this was known. We were not ready to come forward to supporters for a while yet ... but because of current events we had to 'come out' sooner. As yet there isn't an 'official' Supporters Trust - we had to have meeting to get mandate from fans before anything can happen. We now have to become affiliated to Supporters Direct, who we have been working with all the time - and that will take a while. We have a lot of filled in forms of fan's interest and a mandate to go forward. BUT at present we have no members, no membership fees, no shares and no formal affiliated Trust. We are working as hard and fast as we can and having several meetings a week sometimes. So we cannot demand or have the right to influence such crucial matters as yet Just realised I should have posted this as 'WT Supporters Trust' rather than 'Catwoman' but too late now!

Quote: kinleycat "anyone any ideas who is going to be instructed as administrators? O hara did crusaders ( a gentle nod towards anyone at WTST who may wish to pose some questions as a legitimate shareholding group) you can get them on 01924 477449 (Peter O Hara and Simon Weir) or 01302 343477 Graham Gaging) or perhaps email Please remember that we have been working on the Supporters Trust for several months, long before all this was known. We were not ready to come forward to supporters for a while yet ... but because of current events we had to 'come out' sooner. As yet there isn't an 'official' Supporters Trust - we had to have meeting to get mandate from fans before anything can happen. We now have to become affiliated to Supporters Direct, who we have been working with all the time - and that will take a while. We have a lot of filled in forms of fan's interest and a mandate to go forward. BUT at present we have no members, no membership fees, no shares and no formal affiliated Trust. We are working as hard and fast as we can and having several meetings a week sometimes. So we cannot demand or have the right to influence such crucial matters as yet Just realised I should have posted this as 'WT Supporters Trust' rather than 'Catwoman' but too late now!

i previously always felt did what he thought was best for the club but after reading all this i now believe Ted did what was best for him.

What a sad and depressing state of affairs; it's a pity that the people who have designed and implemented these complicated acts of financial chicanery didn't apply the same level of thought and energy to running the club properly.

From the outside looking in, it seems that Emperor Ted has been fiddling whilst Trinity burns, in a very literal sense.

If the article in the LE is accurate WTWC's have been shafted. They have not received a penny for the ground (apart from £750,000 which went straight to Ted and Eccles) and are having to pay a rent for this season.

so according to the article in Lge Exp,
in 2007 WTRLFC (Ted) sold BV for £2.8M to Tillion Partnership (Javine (Ted) is part of Tillion)

Tillion (registered in Isle of Man for purposes not known) were funded by the Bank of Ireland to the tune of £2M (loan) the other remaining £800k is probably the outstanding figure owed to WTRLFC (probably because it never existed, we'll worry about that later!!!((sound familiar)).

£725k was immediately taken by Ted and Brian Eccles as repayment on existing directors loans, presumably that leaves around £1.275M to WTRLFC.

Tillion (Ted) then failed to meet interest repayments owed to BoI , so now we are looking at paying a huge rent to play there to pay back Tillion (Teds) loan, but he got back his and Eccles' loans.

So in this astonishing peace of business he has basically taken a loan out on the ground, trousered his own money first, then defaulted and WTRLFC has to pick up the tab???

Any wonder he was trying to shame the fans into stumping up £500k, to try and cover his tracks, and to continue this deceipt.

I take you back to the words of the original share plea, raise £500K and i/we will resign en mass, elect a new BoD and we will just go to being supporters. Does this sound like the kind of man you would like to stand next to on the terraces, let alone to entrust to run OUR club???

Ted Richardson you are a DISGRACE!!! if you had one shred of decency you would walk away now.

After a little bit of digging this morning, I've been able to establish that the directors of the companies behind Tillion Partnership at the time they acquired the ground appear to have no direct relationship to the club.










However, there was a change of directors on 10 June 2008 which saw Ted & Diane become the directors of both companies, while David Richardson became Company Secretary.

To say that I'm pi$$ed off that, as a shareholder, the truth has been covered up for over 3 years and was not disclosed in what was meant to be "open" discussions with them a couple of weeks ago is an understatement. From the business perspective of my dealings with the club my frustrations are even greater & despite no longer being with the company that had the relationship with the club I will be doing all I can to bring the true position to their attention.

If this is true then its indefensible. He has given our club a right royal shafting and should be made to pay for his actions.

So Ted, are you guilty as charged? If so get out of our club now you two-faced, corrupt, slimey piece of and don't ever set foot in Wakefield again.

it appears so thought it for a long time when people said things all added up why we are in the state we are

the playing standard and squad has detiorated dramatically we have been unable to pay the tax man despite selling our better players and the wages of the squad and what we use towards the cap being slashed players not being paid and unrest within the camp

and all this when ( i cant even bring myself to say his name) has been in financial difficulties time for him to go and go now or maybe he will do a dissapearing act like pearman and lord lucan , hes more or less destroyed the club what i love and everyone one of has in our blood , we are on life support or the dying embers of a once great wonderful fire that glowed brightly and could be seen for miles around stories of it could be heard as far away as australia but no more we have been made a laughing stock and i feel for us all who love this club so much, as any fan from any team would feel about there own club in the same situation its a very sad time for us fans and it appears its all down to a certain individual.

Is this from todays League Express? I will buy it later if so. Good luck with your problems.

He should be petitioned to leave now. We cannot have this hanging over us for long. We need to get him/them out and these alleged undercover deals with so many bad repercussions for us as a club.

We cannot have this hanging over us for long with the preparation for the season. Our first home game is at the end of Feb I believe, significant changes and progress need to have happened by then or we will see very few people turning up to watch.

James "5 GCSE's" Elston and his team of cheerleaders will be going in to marketing overload at the site of this latest Ted Richardson revelation

Seriously when will things ever change for us

Maybe the Pearman era will be looked at in a different light as well. You was fed a line and you feasted on it. Complicity of the highest order.