Although most fans would be happy to see a new stadium, no matter who eventually puts all the ducks in a line.
However, your "In Sir Rodney we trust" is downright offensive.
Are you suggesting that the remaining members of the community trust, including our chairman and TRB have anything other than the clubs best interests at heart.

Unless you know something that the rest of us dont, you may be best served keeping those views to yourself.
After what has gone on regarding the proposed stadium, I dont think that he has too many friends left at Wakefield.

Statements like this helped contribute to this mess. There already is a trust to facilitate the delivery of a new stadium. It now asks difficult question and is fully committed to getting a new stadium/facilities. All of a sudden the developer no longer want to work with this trust and would rather go back to dealing with someone who, at best, will quite happily sit back and not push them to deliver and, at worst, conspire with them so they never have to.

In Sir Rodney we trust? Yeah he's been a great help hasn't he?

I'm a Wakefield Trinity RLFC fan and want a decent stadium for our City, don't care what trust provides it. It's not a case of taking sides and like every Trinity fan have respect for the trust volunteers but we need a stadium and if Sir Rodney Walker can finally get us the stadium as his lasting legacy to his City then the jobs a good un.
Up the Trin

Peter Box in a box. Amarite lads?

Bless!

I understand why you say that, but the Trust under Sir Rodney oversaw the giving up of NC without any agreement in place to ensure that we received recompense due from the developer. If Sir Rodney's intentions were honourable, he would have seen a Stadium developed under the Trust that he chaired and ran for 7 or 8 years.

What goood is a Stadium if it comes after the club has already left the City and given up its SL place? Sir Rodney starting a new Trust merely muddies the water still further - putting the reality of a Stadium yet further away in the distance, and that would seem to benefit anybody but our club!

Do you, or anyone else who imply people intentions haven't been honourable or use words like corrupt, have any hard, irrefutable proof that SRW or Peter Box have been involved in improper conduct. As if not not i'd probably refrain in putting it in writing, as i'm pretty sure they ain't happy about it and we don't want it to bite anyone on the backside.

I notice Carter/ Bretherton couldn't hold their water and have run to the press again. The noise i'm hearing is the relationship has broken down beyond repair between the developer and certain original trust members, something to do with their rather abrasive nature. Now that might be understandable given everything thats gone on but if that is the case then maybe something has to change. Lets be honest we ain't going anywhere fast right now.

Quite frankly from a purely personal point of view i couldn't care less who negotiates a deal as long as it gets built. And if its its somewhere else rather than Newmarket even better, never thought it was the right place for a stadium anyway. There are other options land wise apparently, its all about a getting a deal that works for both parties. The current one doesn't cos Yorkcourt can't afford it. There is going to have to be some give and take both ways.

I don't think anybody cares who negotiates a deal if it comes to fruition, however do you trust the trio of Walker, Mackie or Box to deliver it after years of inaction? I suggest if the relation has broken down its because Yorkcourt are being asked difficult questions and spotlights are being put on their actions. They don't have the funding for a new stadium but I believe they don't have the inclination to construct one anyway. They are playing the long game and are waiting on Trinity to fold or leave the city permanently. NM would soon full up with units then.

They have all has chance to throw litigation at us, and let's face it the council ain't backward about coming forward when it comes to threatening legal action. I don't belive they will as they don't want this issue getting further attention, from lawyers or the media. That way they can quietly keep on with the status quo. We all saw what a tiny bit of pressure from a small number of Trinity supporters did to try and move things along.

Finally there does have to be some give and take. Currently Yorkcourt have taken, they need to give something back to the community. It starts by signing up to the new agreement that states the whole of NC counts towards the trigger point pdq, and there is no need for this agreement to be confidential. After that it is a waiting game until the rest of the development fills up.

I don't pretend to know the ins and outs as to why SRW stormed out of the original Trust but as a mere onlooker I am extremely curious to know WHY he would want any further involvement in the matter? WHY will the other side now, apparently, only negotiate with him?
The biggest WHY is, if Yorkcourt came into the original agreement with goodwill, WHY have they remained completely silent throughout about the situation - surely they would want to be proclaiming what they are doing for the people of Wakefield?
All the secrecy simply breeds suspicion and those involved can blame no-one but themselves if people jump to conclusions. I know I have.

People said the same about Thatcher. I see no difference.

Yorkcourt are a commercial company whose main purpose in life is to make money and that is fair enough and understandable. The councils role is the serve the people, they are a public servant ( I know that is very hard to grasp when you put Peter Box with the words Public servant ) . The Trust is the body that was set up as the vehicle to facilitate the new community sports facilities at Newmarket. Both the council and the developer approved the Trust. What I fail to understand is why the Developer should have right to veto which trust, who is on the trust etc, the only conclusion you can draw is that it is commercially more beneficial for him to deal with one trust over another. Secondly isnt it the role of the council to inform the Developer to which Trust they are working with. What has it got to do with Rodney he flounced out of the Trust, threw his Teddy out and took his bat home. So whats in it for Rodney the man who agreed to allowing Newcold to be built outside the original agreement to massive commercial benefit to the developer and zero benefit to the Trust. Now I know that the the upkeep of the Rolls, Lady Walker, the home in Barbados, the country Estate must be on the high side but I do not for one minute suggest that Rodders will personally gain, no really I don`t, I promise you I don`t. The developer is obviously very close to Rodders and Box, he knows that with Rodders heading a Trust and Box heading the council he will never have to build any sports facilities and that eventually he will get to build what he likes at Newmarket. Meanwhile the new owner of BV gets to put houses up and everyone who owns the little parcels of land adjoined to bv cashes in as well.

Who is on the "new" trust and do they have any legitimacy ?

We are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Lets say that Yorkcourt can't afford to build a stadium under the current deal, it just isn't commercially viable from or any other development company to do so, the risk is too high without other companies signed up to the site (a 12 month stadium build making it unviable for firms to sign up) and the profits currently not large enough to take that risk. So what do we do? What if an agreement was drawn up that would mean a stadium would be built on a.n.other piece of land (with a little council help) in return for the giving up of the prime warehousing land at Newmarket. This stadium would not be built until contracts for the Newmarket site were agreed but the warehousing could not be occupied for business until a stadium was capable of staging a superleague game. This would likely mean the timeframe slips again but we are guaranteed a stadium and the developer guaranteed as much warehousing as he can get on the NM site thus meaning he can make his money out of it. You know, very much like the Cas deal. You may find all of a sudden the developer pushing the site a little more and given the extra business rates the council would rake in it would benefit them. Lets be honest here, we aren't going to be in Newmarket for 2019 as we stand, it just isn't going to happen. The inertia will continue to make it so. If a deal like this was possible would it be a goer in most people eyes? Or is it really NM 2019 or bust?

Box, Mackie and Walker ????

More like illegitimacy !!

Seriously?!

Is this a deal that you have heard about?ie; something RW is trying to put together?

If that actually happened then yes, I'd prefer it, as I think Newmarket is too far away unless you live in Stanley/Outwood like me and it could easily end up like Salford's.

Yes, ideally I would prefer it in a different location.

At the side of the M62 is a good location for travelling fans, but is a fair distance away from other catchment areas.

As others have said relief road close to old power station would be ideal.

My only fear, if potential site is moved, we will have to go through all planning application again and could fall back even further, unless other options available could be fast tracked through, which I would very much doubt.

See P.M. please.

I wonder what Yorkcourt would say to a new agreement of building a 9k capacity stadium on a different site with £2 million from the council and giving them the entire Newmarket site on the proviso that they signed a new 106 saying nothing else could open there commercially until a stadium had been built. If we use Michael Carter's previously stated roughly £1 million = 1k capacity then it's taking Yorkcourt's outlay down from £10 million to £7 million with more land at Newmarket, presumably taking their net contribution to the region of £5-6 million which seems much more reasonable.

Can anyone tell me who told the club not to bid for BV?

The council apparently.

I thought it was Yorkcourt?? As they were concerned that it may drive the price up and they were putting in a bid. Sadly that bid was not backed by any legitimate desire to show they had the funding to buy it and so ended up being sold to someone else (who actually had the funds) for less than Yorkcourt had allegedly bid.

You've been quiet lately, just popped up when the ground development turns negative.
How's Ted these days?