Yeah, but do they have the expertise to rebuild the South Stand?
You've got to cut straight through to the real issues mate.

Jesus! I hope the sun isn't behind them. The double baldy act on the bench would blind the entire stand.

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Cake good.

But enjoyment value watered down due to the fact that your packed in like sardines.

To enjoy good flowing cake, you need to have the room to get your elbow swing in full motion. I don't need the distraction of cheap-shotting some old bag, who's bascially sat on my knee, to put me off my ginger pud. Thank you.

Whilst I must confess to having spent too much and eaten too little in at least three branches of Patisserie Valerie, we must bear in mind that we don't want this Southern upstart crow stealing the plumage of the admirable Betty's.
Now do we?
Eh?

No ....no El B. We must not be held back by heartland cafes with their salt of the earth menus, but should expand our horizons, reaching out to grasp the exotica that is there, just waiting....

Behold..... The Chocolate Mirror Cake

A cake flatcapper. Well I never.

Flash b*****d.

Nah ... a true flatcapper would be championing Gregg's, the high class purveyors of flour and lard temptations.

Has any one of the guys in the know on here heard anything about the starting date of the building?has there been any announcement from the club saying when the last game will be before the start?Ive just been reading elswhere that the club may still be in an ongoing negosiations/battle with the council about the planning and what they are allowed to build.

The last I heard is the SS plans were turned down by the Planning Committee of the council, but that was around 6 weeks ago ...

You can follow the details on here [urlhttp://plandocs.leeds.gov.uk/WAM/showCaseFile.do?appName=planning&appNumber=11/02021/FU/[/url

last 2 letters of the application reference are rather unfortunate

probalby refers to the large number of objectors!, still under consideration.

Awesome! If I've read those docs right, the revised version of the stand (23% larger than presented during the consultation process...) appears to be [url=http://plandocs.leeds.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Report-472551.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=472551&location=VOLUME3&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1recommended[/url for planning approval with a decision possibly being made on the 18th?

Some of the comments from the consultation are predicatably banal but "additional food and drink concessions will increase molestations on match days even more" =



[url=http://plandocs.leeds.gov.uk/WAM/doc/BackGround%20Papers-437817.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=437817&location=VOLUME3&contentType=application/octet-stream&pageCount=1The document here[/url which deals with the history of the application shows what a tortuous process this has been. The early proposal for a 10,000-capacity all-standing jobby (page 17) looks superb.

There are a load of additional pictures on there which are interesting, Headingley apparently captured in cherry blossom season on a day when a peculiar blue haze has descended:

Looks like the end is in sight of a long battle to get this through, interesting stuff, and clearly shows the club have been trying their hardest to build the best replacement they can.

Glad that adding my two penneth that the 6500 plan was way too small was of some use when added to 300 other comments and included in the process. On the other hand, some of the tripe quoted in the objections is baffling, and often blatently inaccurate.

Clearly even the 7400 plan is a significant compromise, and the club has a few subtle digs in there that they are not being allowed to build anything with commercial benefit. The 10000 capacity stand did indeed look awesome, but so did the clubs preferred scheme with executive boxes on page 21, but clearly planning were blocking this every step of the way.

Nevertheless, when completed the southstand experience is going to be significantly changed, access either via the new turnstile block on St Michaels Lane or from all other entry points as access to other parts of the stadium will be possible. The ability to mill about in the existing southstand carpark/concession area should feel far less claustrophobic.

I fully expect Leeds to charge a premium price for the privilege of occupying standing room in the new South Stand.

My guess is a fiver more than other standing areas elsewhere.

Indeed, any paying customer who wishes to pay the new higher price to use the new facilities is welcome to do so.

If the paying customer does not wish to pay a higher price then they can either look for a cheaper option within the ground, look for something else that in their view provides better value for money or choose to keep their money in their pocket and not attend at all.

£30-£35 might be sufficient to discourage plenty of the riff raff who usually congregate in the SS.

No concessions either.

I'm all for it.

Either that or just move them to another part of the ground.

I must admit when I took a trip back home for the wire game and after we went over to the social club and my thoughts my god where have all the old lot gone?

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Sounds promising, I guess they would start work after the final league game? or would they wait till after the play off home game?

That 4-legged ghost player in the photo could be the solution to the current centre crisis.

[iLeeds Rugby’s plans for the South Stand have faced opposition from some local residents and Coun Martin Hamilton (Lib Dem, Headingley).

Coun Hamilton recently expressed concern about what he said would be the “overbearing” size of the new stand and its “inadequate” associated landscaping.[/i

All those Leeds RL fans who live in this chaps consitituency will no doubt make a note of this when you next come to exercise your democratic rights and he's canvassing your vote.

And the YEP did a good job in exposing him

It's also a pretty handy artist's impression of what they're expecting attendances to be like under McDermott.