The Box express, I mean Wakefield Express, has hasn't it??

I would of like to have seen us taken advantage of the publicity we could of gained at the back end of the season when we had televised games and when we was on a high,
now the seasons gone all media attention now is via written statements, Box has used this to their advantage in announcing the stadium improvements which then got the public on their side.

I would like to know how much money has been wasted in not even get any of the projects started and the their attempts to shut down Wakefield Trinity

IA this being the case why didn’t the club make a statement saying we hadn’t broken off negotiations and didn’t want a ground for free and would make a further detailed statement after taking legal advice? That would have at least made the wider public aware that the council press release was factually incorrect on those key point with further details to follow.

As it is we have various people believing the councils cock and bull version and thus they have won the first round of wider public opinion

Sadly I don't think the wider public are particularly interested and I don't think this is going to be settled by a media fight but we will use the media at the appropriate time.

In my opinion this will only be settled now by a couple of High Court Judges through a Judicial Review of everything that has gone on from the Public Inquiry to date including Newcold amongst other things.

That's the problem we have and that's where they have us by the knackers. If we can't negotiate a deal for Belle Vue that suits us and everyone else and we go to court (which I think we should) what happens in the mean time we could end up losing our SL place and still end up with nothing. If a deal isn't done what the bets on Sir Rodney getting a consortium together that will accept what ever deal going. Hope MC plays a blinder and gets us a decent deal, still think there a few twists and turns in this.

Up the Trin

I’m with you in that i hate to see people profit from their allegedly ‘dodgy’ intentions but if i’m honest all i’m bothered about is whether the club gets the stadium it so desperatley needs to have a future. And given there’s as good a chance of losing as winning in court then we could end up actually strengthening Box and his clan further. Either way there will be no stadium. Given the costs involved, the time it takes and the bad feeling it will cause both with those who have influence and with the wider public then sadly if it ends up in court it can only be about principles, whatever the result the club has already lost.

So as I understand it Trinity/The Trust have not rejected anything, mainly due to the fact nothing has been provided for them to reject, however they have sent in their interpretation of the heads of terms which the council have spit the dummy out over. Is this correct?

That's my understanding based on what IA has posted

Box, Walker and the developers were never going to present anything that is acceptable to The Trust / Club. They want the club to fail and go out of business

I don't see it like that, I'd say the three named by you want Rodders trust to get the nod, everyone can make money out of the stadium. Could Ted be in bed with Rodders?

Would it not be prudent to take your own recording of meetings, or do you??

Tucked away in a corner of the inside pages. Terrible newspaper! I stopped buying it years ago.

Wait for MC to finsish off his holdidays and a media blitz to put the story straight and get across it's not Triniy that's been shafted, it's the whole of Wakefield that has been.. You could add Yorkshire Radio to that, he's a regular dpwn there, even Ridings FM.

Jinjer is right.
With the greatest respect, RLFans forum, Yorkshire Radio and Ridings FM are too small to lead the way.
This needs to be discussed in the public domain, on the BBC and Sky. (I realise that is tough to do, but that is what we need to shake things up).

As the club and trust don't appear to have received any genuine correspondence on this matter, Andy Wallhead and the council need taking to task, prove to the media and public that the club don't expect public money to fund this build. Plus the public need to know that AW and the council are scheming and caniving (sp) not the trust/club. Gloves off, give 'em some!