Isn't that the same as politics?

Just a quick question, regarding York Court, or Shoremayne, as they are now known as.

The funding is via them, do we know for definate, as to whether this company have the funding for the stadium build at all?

88M group will announce a upgrade of bell vue in the next 2 weeks- ready for the 2018 season. Plans are being finished now .

88M group will announce a upgrade of bell vue in the next 2 weeks- ready for the 2018 season. Plans are being finished now .

hope ,dream or true???????

Drugs don't work you know.

I could see them now announcing some plans for Belle Vue but it will be nothing to do with a stadium!

Yeah unfortunately I think you may well be proved correct.

Could be sleep deprivation, It must be difficult trying to keep up with what's happening at the club when your 12 hours in front of us, allegedly anyway.
That's the problem he has, he either has to make sheeite predictions or look like he's way off the pace with his day late comments'

The weird thing is that he was the first person to mention Brian Smith trying to buy the club last year so he must have some kind of decent source. Hopefully he has a source for this too rather than his usual rubbish.

I saw plans for Newmarket years ago.

So did I, I also remember Thornes Park, Jct 39 MI and Those fabulous plans at Durkar.

The only stadium plans that have ever gone on to see a full build were published in the late 1800's for Belle Vue.

That's progress for you

Probably a daft question but my understanding is:

Yorkcourt told the club (ie Michael and Chris) not to bid for BelleVue as they were going to buy it and this action might drive the price up.
If they had not done so then possibly Wakfield Trinity would have bought(or at least bid for BelleVue)
Yorkcourt did not come up with the readies to back up their claim and so BelleVue was sold to 88M for significantly less than YC had "allegedly" bid.

If all of this is true - is it possible for the club to belatedly offer to buy BelleVue now from 88M for more than they paid but less than YC were going to bid.
I'm not stupid enough to think that this would solve all our problems but at least we would then own the ground and monies spent on improving it would be being spent on what we owned not rented.

I'm certainly not stupid enough to believe the next statement will happen but....
Maybe our governing body could buy the oldest (iconic??) rugby league stadium in the world and rent back to us with a view to us paying a rent/mortgage that would eventually lead to us re-owning the stadium??

If you believe the rumours then 88M wouldn't now sell BV for anything less than £7million as they believe that is what is its potential commercial worth moving forward.

And the council/ Yorkcourt could have bought the Suberbowl and BV for less than £1.5M this time last year.

Is there some kind of (community asset) atached to the ground?

Does anyone know how much 88m paid for the ground?. Anyone who thinks that land is worth £7 million is seriously deluded. You could buy land in a decent area for that.

Would make sense Fordy (at the right price) but it won't happen because it's not our luck!

It's arguably perfectly located for a small retail park. A good footprint and on a major route out of town. Once you hit the Chantry Bridge, do you pass any supermarkets of any major size if you're heading out of the city?

Protest march??

I just don't understand the reluctance to go public.
Sky TV mentioned the plight at the club and even touched the subject with C C during his interview before the game.
Why not use the media to put your case across and follow it up with a full blooded media attack.
With sky touching the subject with C C the path would be clear for the club and M C to take it to the next level.
Are we behind the black ball for reasons better known by a few .

That's what I find frustrating. People are allowed to trample all of us, renege on deals and we remain speechless! I don't get it - how could matters be made worse by naming and shaming those concerned?

I think we fully appreciate that you can't understand what you don't know. All the thoughts and ideas mentioned on here and elsewhere are heard by the Trustees and are under discussion. We do have to be careful though, in that a wrong move or statement could prejudice our position going forward - in fact comments made by some of us already, on here and on other SM, are being used in an attempt to weaken our position.

You guys and gals can say what you like, within reason and without libellous intent, but we are not quite so lucky. For that reason alone I have, in the past, considered resignation from the Trust, but right now it is important that I represent that body which campaigned so strongly to achieve OPP at NM and I must therefore continue to be careful with the expression of my views and the facts behind them.

I hope this helps.

Please do not make the mistake of thinking that because things are not public that we are not working.

Also, see above.