Why don’t we wait & see if there is any announcement that has any legs before we start talking about what colour seats we have etc?

Wouldn't want an all -seater stadium myself. Never thought sitting down was the proper way to watch RL. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've sat down at BV in 63 years watching Trin.

I still have a feeling that Neil Fox Way will be where we end up.

Imo yes maybe like Celtic some parts are standing only but im dreaming wake up !!

Imo yes maybe like Celtic some parts are standing only but im dreaming wake up !!

Could that obstacle mentioned it have anything to do with the recent changes at the head of the club.

I had also heard a while back that Manni was losing interest in the site, their from someone who has been a business acquaintance of his in the property industry around Leeds

Aye. Tackle bags and kit bags at the side of the road.

I have a couple of friends who are working on City Fields atm and I've been trying to hit them for any information about it for the past year or two. Tbf one is a bricky for one of the companies, so as he says he doesn't know much more than I do about future plans. The other though is a manager for one of the other building companies and when I've asked him if he's heard anything about sports facilities being built down there, he says not to his knowledge. But says the only real place in his opinion where there's enough land for something like a stadium, is where the old Power Station was, which is currently being advertised for warehousing and retail/fast food outlets - but it is owned by the Council. Which most of the area isn't or has been earmarked for other things, such as housing, school, health facilities and various warehousing projects to provide jobs. He says the road that runs down to Stanley Ferry with the land to the right is earmarked for an old folks community.

Slightly o/t but as a someone who lives near to it and already knows how busy it is atm, plus it's made Aberford Road/Barr lane, especially around Pinderfields even more of a ball ache than it was previously at peak times. His general thoughts on the relief aspect of the road and what's going to happen when it's fully built up were very interesting although slightly alarming tbh. He basically says any relief that it is/has served will be completely lost as City Fields gets more and more built up. He says the road is far too small to be both a relief road and a road to service the 2500 houses and various other things that are going to build. He can't get his head around why the road is so narrow first of all and can't believe that it was built to this spec knowing what else and how much was going to be built after it was completed. Has he said to me, once complete apart from being a relief road, City Field could have around anywhere from 8-10000 people living on it.

It's more an enabling development road right now and, aside from rush hour on an evening, it's great not having to drive through the bottleneck that is Wakefield city centre. I think the relief part was to relieve the city centre of traffic which I feel it has done.

For me the only suitable location on there is down at the Doncaster Road junction but that looks like is been remediated and prepared for residential purposes with a bit of commercial. Shame as it would've been ideal.

This is all lovely but the rumor is the redevelopment of belle vue, not a new stadia off a relief road

not only is it a shame, its never been close to being the beginnings of a rumor.....ever, and is less likely than a wembley of the north being built on the roof of newcold.

Again it's all bullcrap

Stands to reason though, why loan the club £3m (Nutjob forum rumour) to buy back the freehold of BV to allow construction of a community stadium when a) there's a plot of land at NM already earmarked for one and b) the council are land rich so should not really be short of options.

I suppose it's because BV already is a sports ground so shouldn't be quite as time consuming as a completely new development coming to fruition.

it's a start Wollo!!. With a photo of Box and Jeffries stood on top of the bags supping a glass of cheap plonk. It'd still be further than Cas have progressed.

It is about a rumor but I was just telling the poster what little inside info I have about City Fields & why it most probably wouldn't happen there anyway - a few people have mentioned that area before so I agree, it's a non starter.

It has to a certain respect but it's also just removed traffic from one side of town to the other. My main point though as I said previously, was to do with future that road will have and one of the reasons it was built being lost in the years to come when it has to service the 1000's of people living and working on it and the bottleneck in the City will eventually be back to where it was. ATEOTD though it's going to improve things around that side of town towards Donny Road when it's all done and hopefully will make a feature of the Canal and nature reserve - they should have just made the road a dual carriageway where possible.

It’s also the cheapest option. I do have a good knowledge of redeveloping stadia and getting BV to minimum standards would be pretty low. Just an example.

Basic new East stand with bars and bogs to hold say 3k at about 1.75 million.

Extend cats bar right across the end to house all facilities. Base level changing rooms and offices with maybe 8 boxes on second level and a small terace at the front maybe about 1 million if volunteers did the internals aka Fev. The existing bit holds the restaurant, reception and shop.

North stand reprofile terracing maybe 750k again keep existing roof. Maybe put seats on the upper section if it’s plaisible.

East terrace reprofile terrace and rebuild back wall and add a propper TV press box. Add a roof at a later date. About 1 million.

Add 500k for infrastructure and 3 million for the land.

That’s 7.5 million for a much better stadium which is dirts cheap. It can be further improved over time. It will never be the pride and joy of SL but it won’t shame it either. It will be fit for purpose and personally I’ll take that.

The club is saved, the council has a community stadium of sorts, RFL happy. That by my estimate is half the cost of a NM stadium and could easily be done in a close seaon if we could stop playing at home in late August and restart mid March (depend on the winter weather) that how I see it.

Obviously 15 million would get you the full deal at BV but that seems even less likely to happen imo.