It's a 100% fact and the amount of support the council has for it is becoming worrying.

I cannot see how that would wash with the council. I believe the council already makes a loss on the Shay with two tenants. What sort of rent would FC Halifax have to pay to make the stadium break even as sole tenants. Unless Copley Beach volleyball team is moving in with them? That would explain the lack of grass and all the sand!

town do not need to pay any extra to make stadium break even. the council needs to sort out its act to get the stadium to break even.

The consortium's bid pays the council 10 years rugby rent in advance.

Its a load of balls! Any serious businessman wouldnt leak details of his bid prior to any water tight agreement being in place. Its not the way serious business is done.

Thanks to our friend Bubba the stadium is an asset of public interest. So any bids that are made for the stadium would have to be made public and rival bids considered.

Wouldn't be the first would it.

The 'supposed' bid has nothing to do with anyone purchasing any of the Shay estate.

So they are going to give the council 10 years worth of rugby rent and get nothing in exchange for it other than turning a loss making stadium into an even bigger loss making stadium, whilst inviting lawsuits from the rugby club. Sounds like a brilliant idea.

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It says it all.

It's now okay for a businessman or men who have clearly stated" The Rugby club Out" and tries a cheap pitch based bribe to achieve this.

The pitch is not part of the Shay estate even though that is why the two clubs are there in the first place and is where the council get most of the revenue from at the moment.

It's now not a public asset and is best used to serve and I'm being generous less than 2000 Calderdale residents.

This person / persons can conduct their business in secret with no details being released until the agreement is water tight.

I could go on and in view of all that has transpired concerning the Shay this must be an all time low in it's history.

Ten years of nowt still comes to nowt!

So they're gonna come up with around £400k up front to take over the pitch and then try to run the stadium on their own? Don't be so bloody stupid!

All this appears to have come from that dip Flea. I take it "The Consortium" confided in him before proceeding, after all they really need the advice of a Tesco shelf filler (allegedly).

so fax will not have to pay anything if their rent paid in advance. or mean equal to?

Don't worry, it's a load of rubbish and a no goer even if a bid has been made (which I doubt.)

Rumour has it that the bid has been put together worse than our SL bid.

Beware a Bubba in sheep's clothing.

Massive Fax fan Bubba.

I'm sure in a couple of months the pitch will be reet again. We can over old ground on the rent again then, and Reactiv Media.

Once upon a time.

Everybody is skint.

The stadium will slowly but surely rot and will become a pariah for the Town.

As this happens the health, safety and welfare implications will kick in and the council will start to close parts of it down and or become under greater pressure to get shut.

The pitch during winter will be at the mercy of the elements.

? are you out with Huddshay.



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The Council are moving more staff down to the Shay within the next couple of weeks. The stadium is now more used for non-sporting events than for football/rugby. There are other plans in the pipeline to be announced shortly which will further reduce the subsidy.

I agree HJ. It was going through my mind as I typed it, I just can't see a way out.

If you look deeper and linking the stadium and the Town, sporting wise it's a dark place at the moment.

Lets get through the next few weeks, have some sun come out and with a bit of grass on it and the pitch will be transformed as nature takes it's course but the stadium is starting to look a bit of a dump in places.

To put it all into context though like a fool I watched the news again and had a reminder of what is going on in the big wide world and realised that although I love my sport it is just a game.