Well said MC. Thought his interview on Sky tonight put our point across very well. Managing to get in the info about green belt land and the promise of a community stadium. Bravo Michael.

Let's see if Sky edit the interview to suit their agenda?
It's going to be on soon.

I missed this. Is it available anywhere please? I was very annoyed to hear Hemmings spouting the 2 Million for the franchise story in the commentary

That would be a yes then


The only interview with MC on Sky is a clip in which he say's he would consider selling the franchise, that's it, no context no broken stadia promises, no back story, just headline manipulation to suit their agenda

It was on rugby AM

"OUR SL POSITION IS NOT FOR SALE"
Hope that helps in your next Sky interview Mr.Carter.
Instead now Sky are creaming themselves at the thought of Toronto replacing us.
Very unhappy about our future now.

If Wakefield Trinity weren't the laughing stock of SL, we sure are now.

Think he came across on SKY, very honest, and brought his points across quite well.

Even though we have next to no positive comments from the SKY team normally, I think Bill Arthur also brought our point over quite well

Got to agree with this Im afraid - cos if we don't say that then it means that our position may be negotiable. If that really is the case then we are stuffed. I hope that either MC was being a little naive or he is playing a clever card. If we cant build from our current position then how on earth could we build from the Championship?

I understand how people are thinking, but I'm guessing MC is still in bluff mode, if he says absolutely no chance that we would sell, then another bit of pressure is taken off the powers that be. I'm guessing he's keeping the council, Yorkcourt and possibly 88M on their toes.

Im prepared to trust him for now, he at least deserves that. However, there is great potential here for the Trinity club to get shafted once and for all.

We have had to sell our best players in the past, I hope to god we never have to sell our very existence!!

I'm sure he'll be on shortly to thank you personally.





[uHad[/u being the operative word. Our existence would otherwise no longer exist.

I think you are overstating our importance. We have given 88M an area of land to redevelop, so I doubt they will be bothered. We are ensuring that we are no longer in the WMDC area therefore they have only two clubs to be concerned about. With regards Yorkcout it would appear they have pulled the wool over the the club and trust and I doubt they fear what we can do.
I am reminded of the old saying out of sight out of mind.
If you feel we have a good strong hand please let me know what it is.

In my opinon I think we are in a weak position and I can't see any alternative way to the route MC is planning.

However if you were running the club I would be interested to see what you would do. I am not interested in history and past mistakes, we are where we are. Its our present circumstance that matters, how would you manage the situation if it was your club ?

Who has 'given' 88M a piece of land to develop?
I don't think we could do much about it, it was sold to the highest bidder.
Wasn't there something about not being able to build houses on BV due to some radioactive zombie sludge in the soil that would cost more to excavate and remove, than was cost effective?

There's definitely something wrong with the soil, the the whole pitch moved 2 weeks ago and you couldn't tell where the touchline and in-goal area started or finished...

We are told that it wasn't sold to the highest bidder!

This gets more interesting

Told by who?

Was it same people who told us not to bid for ground as YC already had the contract

Was it same people who told us not to bid for ground as YC already had the contract

MC has got this club financially sound again and overseen the assembly of our best squad in ages. Yet it appears that people still doubt his motives.

Why would the BOI take a lower bid?

I don't feel I'm overstating our importance, every time Trinity play the name Wakefield is mentioned, I went to a wedding last year near Southend, when we got sat down talking most people reacted when you mentioned Wakefield Trinity, I think we're an important advertising tool.
Who are "we" that have given 88M the land? If I remember correctly they bought it from the BOI.
88M won't be bothered, I don't know how much our rent is per year but if we move out 88M will have a plot of land there with no income from it.
Someone else mentioned the soil, I thought it was the landfill under the terraces that were the problem, this sounds a bit odd but wasn't it nic that's under the stands? And would be very expensive to excavate.
Your last sentence, I think we have a poor hand so I can't help you on that one.

Just speculating but if the higher bidder didn't come up with the money then the BoI would take the lower bid.

I don't think anyone has undertaken any surveys but my guess is that the terraces at Belle Vue will, like most things in Yorkshire, have had colliery spoil used as fill beneath. Colliery spoil/shale naturally contains heavy metals including nic. It's perfectly safe and will cause no problems but if you want to build housing on it it will have to be removed and the cost of disposal to licensed landfill will be very expensive.

The fill may also be ash which contains the same contaminants.