Any more updates please

Worth a try!

I see Robert Elstone is talking about (quite rightly) on the reintroduction of minimum ground standards in the next few years, with obviously us and cas named. I know we are open to all options but we are desperate do we bring everybody back round the table even Sir Rodney Walker. Belle Vue, Balne Lane, or Newmarket we need a stadium ASAP. Also will reintroduction of minimum standards work in our favour with the 106 agreement?

Up the Trin

Didn't force anything 6 years ago, it won't force anything now. Mackie (previously) and Box are playing the waiting game.

That is the last thing you would do !!!!!!!!!




As long as he rides around the City in his clapped out old roller thinking he is Lord of the Manor, I am happy for him to live his dream. Get him involved again and it will never happen.

Guess who he bought that bad boy off of?

There is an article in the Daily Star about Balne Fields option - surprise surprise. Don’t know how to link it

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/rugby ... gby-League

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/rugby ... gby-League

Cheers Wakey no 1

Doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know and neither does it sound particularly positive. The Balne Lane scheme just isn't practical and is a another time wasting mechanism from the council. It also gives them a bit of decent PR to the outsiders looking in, making it seem like they are trying for a solution and if and when we dismiss it makes us look ungrateful for doing so.

It is getting close to decision time. Agree to pay the vastly inflated fees 88M want and stay at a moderately revamped Belle Vue or take the plunge and move to Dewsbury if they'll still have us. Newmarkets dead, forget about that. Big call coming for MC & CB.

I have lost count of the 'VERBAL STATEMENTS' made by Box. He never sticks to them and then denies he ever said them.

This just confirms to me we are no where nearer than we were over 10 years ago. Just more lies, to buy more time till we all go away.

Got told Balne Lane is big enough for stadium and access road so could be a goer.

Up the Trin

Was it Sir Jimmy Savile. Was it part of the deal when he bought his Scarborough Flat.

Could be some issues with those travelling to Shudds by train.....
Some trains cancelled from Kirkgate.

Thought I'd beat BarnsleyGull to this one.

I could have told you that, doesn't mean it's true though.

I’d suggest you take it with a pinch of salt. Won’t happen for many reasons. That’ll will not stop the council peddling the myth for a few months though. There’s more chance of it being built in MC’s back garden.

Put it this way, if the club were to align on this project then Manni Hussain would have BV as rubble before you know it. It would then be redeveloped for a mix of small community use pitches and mainly commercial. So it would be gone for good. Win for 88M. We would have nowhere to go as Newmarket is as likely as Monty Pythons Norwegian Blue Parrot taking flight and the reserved matters planning keeps getting kicked into the long grass until a point comes where we have conceded it won’t happen. Time constraints mean that time is close. Then the planning will go through. Yorkcourt win. Balne Lane is a smoke screen designed to throw people off the scent. The council appear helpful, we are made out to be the bad boys. We move out of the area, the council wash hands of all responsibility. Council win. See a trend here?

We have been backed into a corner with only one card left to play and it’s the ‘hope it all kicks off if we leave the city one’. Sadly most of the city couldn’t give a flying and would prefer another Costa Coffee & Burger King to a rugby ground.

WMDC just running rings round us again. Feel we need to put the frighteners on Peter Box again just like at the council meeting when he looked extremely uncomfortable to have to face a public gallery full of Wakefield fans.

Is the new planning for Newmarket allowed without approval of stadium elsewhere in the City? That planning keeps getting delayed and delayed.

The only way Balne Lane is a 'goer' is that it is an ideal site for the council to name to buy time.


It has a certain credibility regarding its size and location. It also has the potential to raise objections and all sorts of feasibility studies. I would say it has a useful life span of around two years to delay this project. The council can then come up with another site to buy even more time if we are still around.


There must be at least a dozen sites and probably more around this City in order to build a stadium IF BOX WANTED ONE BUILT. But he doesn't, so while ever he is calling the shots, nothing will ever happen.

Access road to where ????

Junction 40 or 41 of the M1 are the nearest motorway junctions...are they going to build a skyway over Flanshaw and Peacock or Wrenthorpe ????

It just bull from Box and his cronies, smoke screen after smoke screen whist they laugh all the way to the bank.

The 'M' word raising its ugly head again on RL Backchat, also ground sharing.

Share what?

To be fair not that many of the modern grounds have good road access