Agreed. And I would have a statue of MC next to Foxy at any new stadium. Man deserves that knighthood more than the other protagonist here that has one!

Less than perfect though it is, I hope you are right. I guess we can keep in SL and be competitive even if they want their skim. Better than the alternative. Though my suspicion is that, judging by Michael's reaction, the amount is more than we can afford

Another bazinga from me.

Why should Yorkcourt be allowed to change the original agreement to recoup some of their investment? Surely they will still make an absolute packet on completion of all the other development.

Why is Sir Rodney on the side of Yorkcourt and not the public of Wakefield who want a successful team in the new stadium?

We have seen that just providing a stadium is not the be all and end all for a successful club - just look at Salford. The move has to be right for the club to be a force - otherwise there is no point in moving.

Very good point. Although I know Ted Richardson has played his part in our current woes. He often gets blamed for the YCCC fiasco at Denby Dale which I think is what you're referring to. That deffo happened on Walkers watch as far as I recall. Rodney has a real knack for blame shifting doesn't he.

Who owns the land where the stadium will stand

I hope I'm not - I can't see any value in scratching by in SL, in a stadium that does not benefit us; otherwise, we're just the same old underfunded team, but in a shiny stadium that offers no real benefit in terms of additional income.

If the stadium was built though, Yorkcourt would need us to actually be a viable business in order to recoup any money they'd spent on the stadium as realistically it's only going to be us playing there as there are no other potentially viable tenants. So there could well be some sort of compromise that could be made, obviously not as good as we should have had but workable and better than the alternative of just playing out of Dewsbury. Things change quickly in sport too, once it's built you never know what might happen.

Well while your giving your new found wealth away acko old boy, would there be any chance of buying snowie a new beer shed in the new ground

I am not old enough to remember this personally, but know about it from what family have told me, so please stay with me

I believe Ted owned belle vue... which is why were are in the current predicament, following its repossession by the BOI and the new current owner (88m?). Do you think Teds ultimate decision to decline the offer a ground being built for us had anything to do with any personal financial benefits of taking a rent paid from WTRLFC to Ted's holding company. I have heard numbers thrown around but don't know exact figures. Like I said, I wasnt around at the time so dont know the exact timescales regarding ground sales from club to ted etc.

It does seem to me an absolutely ludicrous decision that a chairman/ owner of a club would refuse a new ground to be built for them by their local council. To think this situation could all have been avoided, had it been for some better advice here or there.

Dont think SRW was involved with the club when the move to Durkar was being discussed.

According yo Wiki, SRW was chairman of the club between 1986 and 1993. Plans for Durkar didnt become known until around 1996. Wasnt Paul Caddick interested in the club about this time. He has just recently celebrated 20 years of owning Leeds and Headingley Stadium.

Although we know nothing of the terms, and this is speaking purely hypothetically, you have to take a step back and ask whether we would accept those terms if the development didn't have the history that it did. Doesn't matter who's making a quick buck, the issue is purely the favourability of the terms. There's too much at stake for it to be lost on a point of principle, however noble those principles are.

There you have it in a nutshell Caddick wasn't interested in Wakey or the new ground, he already had everything at Headingley including a Test Match cricket ground, remember this Caddick did not own Yorks. CCC but had a certain amount of influence over them as their landlords.