oh ffsake...



So MC has to knock back the new Stadium offer after the conditions under which it is to be built and run are altered beyond the financial viability originally agreed.
This makes Rod happy, he doesn't have to deliver the stadium that the Bermuda triangle didn't want to build in the first place and conveniently shifts the blame for that to WT's doorstep.
Full WExpress back page spread.......Rod throws his arms in the air and say's, I tried my best, its all Trinity's fault the stadium won't be built.

Or he agrees to the altered terms, gets a stadium built in the community, when it's built says that the rental agreement is too high and is unfeasible then plays the same game he's already playing with Belle Vue to get the rent lower. The difference would be that Yorkcourt would be a bit more pliable as they'd have just spent several million building a stadium so anything would be better than nothing for them.

You're assuming the terms will be viable on some level.

If you didn't want to build it, what would you do ?

Depends how long the lease would be signed for and whether there would be a break clause at any point.

For what it's worth (nothing), that's how I imagine it playing out too.

This may not be the case of course. Until we hear from our intrepid leader, we won't know which way the wind is blowing.

All we have at the moment are hearsay and conjecture. But then as Aristotle postulated, nature abhors a vacuum.

I just can't see why he would set up a new Trust just so he can shift the blame to the club. He's had a long involvement with the club and presumably wants to see a stadium built. The issue is to what extent he benefits, and to what extent the club suffers a detriment, due to the establishment of a new Trust.

I think this is just pessimism filling a vacuum. I don't think MC would allow the club to be shafted. He's shown that a few times in recent years. It might be that the terms aren't quite as great, but it has to be better than the many alternatives.

They will not build it until terms are agreed.

I smell a rodent.

Club statement; https://wakefieldtrinity.com/club-statement-260617/

Club statement; https://wakefieldtrinity.com/club-statement-260617/

That would e great if that 250 billion existed anywhere other than Corbyns imagination. Total fantasy.

Quote ="Wildthing"Club statement; https://wakefieldtrinity.com/club-statement-260617/ '" As much as I admire it's honesty, I can't help feeling that it would have been better to sleep on it. That's an olive branch with thorns, an attack on the two of the groups we rely on to produce it.

Quote ="Wildthing"Club statement; https://wakefieldtrinity.com/club-statement-260617/ '" As much as I admire it's honesty, I can't help feeling that it would have been better to sleep on it. That's an olive branch with thorns, an attack on the two of the groups we rely on to produce it.

When you have ploughed tons of cash (not to mention unpaid man hours) I would assume
I would feel the same as MC and CB. Money talks and they have spent a bloody lot of it!

it will be a massive weight off their shoulders if MC and CB could walk away from this club after whats gone on

If anything that's arguably one of his most concrete ideas. His numbers might not add up when he's costed things like scrapping tuition fees by increasing corporation tax without considering the harmful effect Brexit will have on those receipts, but he says he will fund the £250 billion investment by borrowing. It's not exactly difficult for a country to borrow that kind of money.

I don't dispute that, and I don't for one moment believe they are wrong in what they say, just the wisdom of saying it. Sleeping on it and sending a warm email conveying the same offer, regardless of whether they mean the warmth, might achieve a better outcome.

It sounds also like the determination to control revenue streams might be one of the thorny issues. The club needs it. The question to ask is if that is one thing that won't be guaranteed, who is intended to make the profit?

whats this post to do with the stadium, politics should stay off this forum nothing rugby related

Agreed, gets pretty tiresome moderating this board these days.

Borrow more money, I thought the Labour Party chastised the tories for not reducing the deficit - talk about cake and eat it.

Anyway it's not worth arguing over because even if it did happen somehow we'd miss out

I agree. I don't think MC and CB could have done more for this club and they are seen to be the problem?? I wouldn't trust SRW as far as I could throw him. This whole situation STINKS! How can you possibly deliver a stadium for which Trinity are anchor tenants without engaging with the owners of the club.

My initial post was to do with the stadium, Vastman chose to reply with some utter rubbish which I naturally had to correct. I'm happy to leave it now.

Perhaps somebody wants mc and CB to leave the club ,so they can get a puppet regime in ,ihope it doesn't happen if it does this club is finished

I don't read the statement as an attack at all. MC is stating that his and CB's interests have always been and will continue to be in the clubs best interests. It's a bold statement saying go on if you say you can sort this stadium I won't be accused of getting in your way.
The council, developer & SRW have a month now to put their money where their mouth is and sort out the stadium once and for all.
I applaud MC for this he is clearly a man of integrity, unfortunately I do not have the same faith in the other parties.

I must stress that I don't disagree with a word of it, and you can see the frustration and emotion in every sentence.

I know it's sickening. Why can't we ever enjoy a season without lurching from one crisis to another

It looks like Michael is coming to the end of his tether to me. That, combined with the fact that this will now need YorkCourt and Walker to back track and deal with the original Trust, does not give me much hope