Might as well remove the words at Belle Vue too. It needs a perfect storm for it to come off and the longer it drags on the slimmer the slim possibility gets.

Manni tweet tonight -
at some point in your life you're going to have to start demanding what you deserve and be willing to walk away if what you require can't be provided

What the hell is this bloke going on about. I can't stand all this tweet crap- if he and others who use this form of media can't speak good plain English then in my opinion they should shut up.

In really do despair we have to guys that have taken on a massive business risk are are being treated like leapers to the city of Wakefield, they fetched in a tight ship in to get the club working living within its means,
struggled to get the club back track after the last managerial fiasco, which they had to start at base one with nothing, few years on and we get a season to be proud of all the hard work done within everyone at the club, its now looking like they are being pressured to leave the club from an outside source.

I'm prepared to walk away from supporting this club if these two are forced to relinquish their position in a aggressive take over bid, no doubt at some time they will move on but gawd help us if we get the clowns from the past back in charge, had it not been for them we wouldn't of had a club end of.

I really hope Micheal and Chris pull through this farce

The problem is Snowie, nobody really knows what's going on. By nobodyI mean the hardcore WT supporters.
Forgive my ignorance but is this pressure to leave linked to the ground situation?

Same here if mc and cb get forced out at Wakefield me and my family will walk away from the club we've supported for 40 years we feel that strongly about it all .

if you look at the way its gone on over the last year all I see is the noose being tightened, it would be lovely to have the information in front of us but its not ours in ownership so you have to understand they keep it close to their chest, any good businessman would

Snowie, as you have a closer working relationship with MC and CB than most on here, because of your beer work and your terrace work, when you say something like that, it smacks of knowing something, which puts his tweets into perspective.

If I read between the lines, Rodders is trying to get his Trust up and running, perhaps take over the club, which will get us a revamped Belle Vue at a rent we can't afford, and we will slowly sink back into the Championship.

Although as a limited company, I don't think there can be an aggressive take-over bid. In a PLC, someone can buy up shares and force a take-over. In a limited company, the directors choose the share issue, so they can't be taken over against their wishes.

What they can do, however, is be left with only one viable option by others moving the pieces, so they take the option they don't want, selling to someone else, because it's the only option left open by those wishing to make the purchase.

I dunno what your all going on about now.

Forcing MC and CB out ??

The developers want the land to develop, WT is in the way, they don't give a stuff about WT so its smoke/mirrors and miscellaneous spin, ****** and promises never to be acted on till WT get fed up and make their own arrangements.
Apart from the perception that MC and CB are nobody's fools and thus not gonna just roll over, I expect the interested parties have accepted it'll take a bit longer than they'd hoped.
I suppose it would help if the owners would just get out the way, but since that ain't happening they're just waiting it out.
Can't see there being a concerted effort to remove the owners when if they obfuscate long enough it won't matter who the owners are.

I'd never walk away from the club but MC would always have my respect and gratitude for what he's done for the club if he did decide to leave.

Up the Trin

Just been looking at the tweets. What a load of codswallop to be putting on social media. It’s like being back in the playground. WT is a professional sports club and it’s in the best shape it’s been in years under the current chairman and his team. I really despair at the antics of this bloke and the council.

Could it be, if we don't get new stadium it's the end of the club, if MC and CB can't agree terms on proposed stadium then probably no club. The new trust find miraculously find somebody willing to agree terms on new stadium to take over the club.

I think you forgot to put the word "miraculously" in inverted commas.

Well, see sluggs closing words >




That doesn't mean no club and its by no means clear what options will or won't be available.

I would never walk away.Why would I after 60 years supporting ?Yeah MC is doing a great job , but I have seen so many chairmen in my life . He is the present custodian.The club is the people who support through thick and thin, and would ' bleed red, white n blue'.

It would be hard to walk away from the club I love it as much as any body but it's the fear of what those who seek to take it over would do to it and what they put it through in the past i for one couldn't stand to go through it all again.

I was trusted to work in the corner Slugger which at Dec I had to close and at no time have any information of the future of BV I was given encouragement but I could see the frustrations at every time the was pause in the project, one of the reasons why I chose to close was the uncertainty.
this never ending saga of tweets from manni, council feeds to the press, Rodders and his little merry team set up are just waiting in the back ground stinks.
Limited may not have the same take over bid as a PLC but you do experience pressures of competition which makes you either compete or fail, our pressures is applied through stadium standards ie RFL and being rejected from SL, that vicious circle of spending money on something we don't own and keeping the club afloat how long could this keep going

My thoughts exactly.
Out of all the parties involved in the ground debacle, there is one we should be able to turn to, to provide accurate information, guidance and perhaps even help. WMDC.
In my book they have been completely devoid of anything. They have allowed this situation to get to where it is, and if BV doesn't get developed, after they allowed Newmarket to go down the Swannee, they should be brought to task for it.
It's absolutely disgraceful the way the club, and the Wakefield public (not just WT supporters) have been lied to, cheated and deceived, by some people who are lucky not to be facing legal proceedings in my book.

Edited for accuracy

Looking at his twitter feed, he was there today, and commented on a good win for us

Using somebody else's picture....

Good he's showing interest, bodes well for next weeks meeting.

Up the Trin

My thoughts too M62

Dont hold your breath!

Ahhh, the local elections are over and the gullible Wakefield public have voted public enemy No.1 back in and all of a sudden Manni is interested in how Wakefield have done! Would have thought he would have been better congratulating the team on the win over Saints.