Oh yes, I get that, it was just the Wildcats part that annoyed me even more.

Nice piece of positivity on the front page of the Wakefield Express, " But will plan for £10m stadium and development ever be built ?"

TBH none of it adds up to me - but - and it's a huge but - it does seem to add up to the Club and to the Trust.

This leads me to suspect there is an element to the final equation we don't know about.

There has to be more to this than meets the eye. MC is no fool nor are TRB, IA or SC all of whom are saying very little.

I suppose either of us could find out but where's the fun in that.

Yep, and the answer is squash the pitch down to 5 a side pitch size, like the Mend a Hose

Hardly supporting the local team though is it?

Absolutely, seems to be the norm unfortunately.

No, but depends which way you look at it. Could also be seen as lack of confidence in our council and other parties involved. Although I doubt they would display any lack of confidence in our council, given they will jump on any soundbite needed to go next to a nice mug shot of Box - our saviour

Exactly.

Any sign of Snowies Brewery?

If you're on about the big block of flats & that flat top kitchen place behind where the superbowl used to be, which I asume yoou are, that's what I was thinking. Tbh when the Stadium redevelopment thing as come up before, plenty of people have said it's a shame we couldn't buy those 2 building and KO them but we've never had the funds, now maybe a bit different. It's not a huge plot but it would make it a nice parcel of land to add on to the development and maybe create that extra bit of car parking for disabled etc. It would certainly open that whole area up nicely, without any obstructions to the development Manni is trying get going and there's no doubt without those building there, it would make it much more attractive as you came down Donny Road

Anyway, after a few days of letting this stew in and going from is this is awesome news & this season can't get any better, to then some of the doubts expressed by some in this thread creeping in. Like others have said, I haven't seen MC anywhere as excited and positive about anything to do with the stadium dilemma since he took over. For me if he feels that way, that's good enough for me. Obviously as a Trinity fan there's always that nagging feeling it's all gonna blow up in our faces and we'll have our pants pulled down again but at the moment i'm going with glass half full scenario.

Well done to all involved at the club, the trust and anyone else that's got us here. Just have to keep my fingers crossed for a year or so.

Plus the area would give adequate space for the emergency services etc, and it would give an adequate escape route (God forbid) if anything tragic were to happen.

Agree. I bet just 88m alone would pay decent money to see those 2 places leveled, from the perpsective of how much better it would make his develoopment look. It would be all on show instead of partially hidden.