It was only last week that your chairman stated "At no point have I blamed the council and I'm not asking the council for money, all I am asking them for is the support to enforce what was promised five years ago. That is what we are fighting for"

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Now you are willing to take £2 million in council tax payers money. Need to make your mind up.

It was only last week that your chairman stated "At no point have I blamed the council and I'm not asking the council for money, all I am asking them for is the support to enforce what was promised five years ago. That is what we are fighting for"

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Now you are willing to take £2 million in council tax payers money. Need to make your mind up.

"Enforce what was promised five years ago". Eg. a stadium built by Yorkcourt once 60,000 sq m of warehousing was built with £2 million from the council, as they'd made a commitment to doing during the planning application. Very different to the way you like to imply that we're asking the council to just build a whole stadium for us. Again, the big thing is them enforcing the fact that Newcold should contribute to the trigger point and we should be roughly 75% of the way there once the expansion is completed. For example, I suspect that if the council came to the trust and said okay, we'll draft up a new multi-party agreement with Newcold contributing to the trigger point but you have to find the £2 million somewhere else that the trust would probably agree because getting Newcold to contribute is the key thing here.

If I were Cas and Fev I would probably be on to the council as well asking for £2 million, although I suspect the difference is that Cas were offered £2 million towards the original Glasshoughton project which is obviously now dead as opposed to Wakefield being offered £2 million towards a development which has had planning permission passed under the assumption that the council would be contributing said £2 million. Although Fev probably have a good case that the council should give them £2 million too as I'm not particularly sure what's changed there, and again I wouldn't have a problem with them doing so as, unlike you so often love to imply, Wakefield fans aren't actually looking for special treatment.

"Enforce what was promised five years ago". Eg. a stadium built by Yorkcourt once 60,000 sq m of warehousing was built with £2 million from the council, as they'd made a commitment to doing during the planning application. Very different to the way you like to imply that we're asking the council to just build a whole stadium for us. Again, the big thing is them enforcing the fact that Newcold should contribute to the trigger point and we should be roughly 75% of the way there once the expansion is completed. For example, I suspect that if the council came to the trust and said okay, we'll draft up a new multi-party agreement with Newcold contributing to the trigger point but you have to find the £2 million somewhere else that the trust would probably agree because getting Newcold to contribute is the key thing here.

If I were Cas and Fev I would probably be on to the council as well asking for £2 million, although I suspect the difference is that Cas were offered £2 million towards the original Glasshoughton project which is obviously now dead as opposed to Wakefield being offered £2 million towards a development which has had planning permission passed under the assumption that the council would be contributing said £2 million. Although Fev probably have a good case that the council should give them £2 million too as I'm not particularly sure what's changed there, and again I wouldn't have a problem with them doing so as, unlike you so often love to imply, Wakefield fans aren't actually looking for special treatment.