Judicial review if it doesn't happen.

Up the Trin

I wonder if the club have left themselves any wriggle room here regarding legal action? Or have we given up on that angle?

I would threaten legal action. Box seemed to squirm a little when it was mentioned before.

Why do you think that? Every time an agreement or some sort of announced progress is announced, nothing happens then within weeks, one or other of the agencies that hold all the cards here, back tracks on something or other and we are back in limbo, which is where, from the outside, we appear to be now.

As part of the last great announcement, didn't we concede that everything had been done properly by WMDC (I'm sure the public announcement of that belief was part of the deal)?

Who knows? We hear things like this....then all goes quiet interminably. I am not sure why some are saying they are sick of this thread. I like many others, would like to know what is going on, even if it's nothing is changing. At least some reasons why it isn't changing would leave us knowing where we stand. The way it looks at the moment, we will be stuck like this till SL kick us out, which frankly, I don't think is very far away

How much longer can we possibly wait?
Didn't MC state there was a plan 'B' or is it 'C' after Newmarket and Belle Vue ?
Must be nearing the time to implement it.

Plan A Newmarket. Gone.
Plan B Belle vue. Going
Plan C Dewsbury. On its way.

Apologies if this question has been dealt with in the multi page posts that keep reappearing and are hard to follow now because of that, but has buying into Dewsbury, ground sharing and getting their stadium up to SL level been looked at? Is that viable? Obviously its their ground and we can't assume they would want to do that but it is only just outside the boundary of Wakefield. It's far from ideal of course, but it could save our SL bacon...maybe?? I am sick to death of us dancing to this tune that is dictated by WMDC, Manny Hussein and Yorkcourt Properties. We are being played for fools and I don't think MC or the Trust are fools by the way in saying that, it's just that I think all that can be done has been done by our team of people and those 3 appear to twist, squirm and manipulate their way out of their promises at every turn. Unless any of you in the know would like to explain what else can be done? I can't see what and have begun to feel that maybe it's time to move on now. We will be stuck here forever otherwise.

Bring back Glover. He’d get things moving. These deals can’t last fowever!!

How so ?

I'm sure PB will give you all the details but as I understand it someone wants planning permission to build houses on Thornes park, quite how we're involved I can't imagine.

Well I've kinda worked out what the sketch is over recent years, we're having a lot of trouble staging events in Thornes Park, Wakefield Council are extremely disinterested in engaging support for anything that is of benefit to the community.
I suspect they don't actually want any events to take place there because that would indicate it be a popular, frequently used resource, thus making it tougher from a public opinion perspective, to turn over to developers.

I can believe that. The same thing has happened with the football & rugby pitches next to Castleford swimming pool. Over several years the Council took down the posts, so kids stopped going, the council stopped cutting the grass & now the land is for sale ("suitable for development"icon_wink.gif.
I get that WMDC have had to make changes following incredible cuts in funding, but their record on sporting/leisure is appalling.

I thought councils had to have so much space for Recreation?

It goes back a lot further and deeper than that mate with the land that was always known as the Bevan Huts.

At least 30 years ago my sons played on those fields for the junior RL team Half Acres Trinity. The club paid to play there but got changed else where. As you say things just got worse and worse and the grass was never cut and then they stopped marking out the pitch so eventually we moved to the Half Acres school pitch which gave them the excuse to take the posts down.
About the same time i played in a 20 overs cricket league on there and although the batting strip was always ok gradually the outfield became over grown and the boundary wasn't marked.
The end finally came when we arrived for our game (paid the fee) to find an unofficial match going on and the 2 teams refused to move.
In hindsight it seems as if this was the plan for the Bevan Huts and other sporting venues.

I’m sure I read in the Wakefield Express in the latter part of last year that the houses in Thornes Park now aren’t being built.

bell Vue is fit for the championship - the way we are going we wont need to move or get a new stadium.....

Do you always have to be negative? How about being positive for once!

i was positive about the stadium 20 years ago when it was first bought up.

DUCK EGG so far.....

I suppose you'd know all about this visiting it on a regular basis

slightly off track its not just sporting or leisure that is getting effected,
my local park has a beck that under passes a walk way and that had been blocked for some time, when the rain comes it filled and overflowed on to the path way making it very boggy and saturating the surrounding ground, it was only because of a phone call from me highlighting the dangers of high wind soggy ground and high trees did they clear the drains,
since then the beck is running freely but is bring debris again so it will block again, back on track Wreny park has a football field that gets marked out once then its left for the clubs to sort out, its left to over grow in the closed season for to be cut now and again, the rest of the park used to cut regular not now its left to be call meadow land part of that meadow land used to have kids playing football and goals would be fetch in, not any more as drainage from the beck soon buggered that up.
The council will only do what it has to do and will close a blind eye until someone threatens them with legal action
If anyone want to test that out, call the council and tell them that you have slipped on the metal bridge and near fell in the steam, they own the bridge as in the park and it should have a kick strip of 100 mm but there is nothing there, they could be sued

I do not expect the council to even entertain looking at a stadium, but we could draw some picture and dream

When was the last time you were at Belle Vue?

17 years ago.