New East main stand with corporate.
New North Stand covered terrace, bars underneath.
New all seater south stand, away stand.
New all seater west stand with proper tv gantry.

Up the Trin

Thornes Park would have been perfect but sadly 8 years since that was pulled and resulted in us all outside the town hall.

Up the Trin

Surely it would have been easier to say new stadium at BV as that's what you're asking for



Can't see it being anything near that good, maybe a new East stand with proper facilities especially corporate and a general tidy of the rest of the ground would be the most we could expect.

It's way less than we deserve but at the moment it's better than nowt. At least it's a starting point and the rest can come in time. Truth is if you can keep the corporates and the sitting down season ticket folks happy then that's where the bulk of the money comes from. I'm happy to slum it on the north stand so long as the club has the capability to earn big money of those folks. As it stands if I had a business I wouldn't want to be taking them for a day in the Benidorm flats.

Yep at the very most I can see it as a Complete East stand redevelopment and also West Stand but the rest will be basically a good tidy up. Which tbh with at this point I'd be a very happy man.

The RFL said Belle Vue was not fit for purpose, so is some work going to have be done in the off season to bring it to their standard ?????

No

New temporary seating is being installed,thats what I heard Thursday night

Whereabouts in the ground are they going? Are they ripping out the seats in the East stand and replacing them with temporary seats? Seems a bit odd if true.

Not happening apparently.

Down western terrace from what I heard ?

Depends if the stadium build is done in stages it one go. It in stages I'd imagine it would be east stand first so temporary seating would have to be done until that's finished. Saying that most of us don't know what's happening but there's opportunity for a decent stadium at Belle Vue, got told it could open up more access to funding with belle Vue being a run down area of the City etc.

I actually agree somewhat there what M62 J30 is saying.

I like the idea of having corporate running lengthways and gettung rid of the flats. We need to make this a 4 sided ground again. Like how the hospitality suites are fitted in at Craven Park.

I also like the idea of the bars being undrneath

I think some folk need to realise we are no nearer a new stadium now then we were last week given it all relies on YC doing something they are not yet obligated to do. All this talk of what we want it to look like is way too premature

I was under the impression 88m build stadium/retail outlets would/could offer different ways it could be financed obviously York court contributing would help also the will to push this development through by the council. As said somewhere earlier this could be win win for all parties.

MC has said a few times that he is always on the lookout for extra financial backers of the club.

The Chairman of 88m Group is a multi mullionaire ans has got his fingers in several pies. Could he be one of those such backers down the line.

I believe it's reliant on YC coughing up. I wouldn't hold your breath.

But could it be financed in a way Newmarket couldn't.

Not quite correct - they are obliged in the sense that if they don't we can block the development of the land promised for the community stadium forever and a day at not much cost.

What we seriously need is a sudden demand for units on the site - if this were to happen you'd soon see YC change their attitude.

What they want is a minimal investment in community facilities at NM whist shifting the main stadium project back to BV thus freeing up some very valuable development land at NM.

At the moment the demand simply isn't there so there is no trigger and until there is there is no obligation for YC to do anything about it.

You see NM is still possible if that trigger is reached and thus pulled however Rodney Walker realise two years back that due to how the deal was set up that could take not years but decades, something a developer can live with but a SL club can't. Hence Walkers decision on behalf of the trust to push BV to the forefront.

Our greatest enemy is timing it's as simple as that. If certain things happen then you could see BV redeveloped in literally month but the chances of that happening at the moment are remote, hence it's a waiting game. This is why news of any kind is so rare, because due to circumstance there is none.

I firmly believe we will get something out of all this in the end, unfortunately I feel it will be far less than a new stadium or even a full redevelopment of BV but it will be a start - what I don't know is when or if it will be in time.

Getting anything of any worth out of this is still fully reliant on Yorkcourt playing ball.

Another positive to developing the Belle Vue site is the new eastern relief road being developed, this makes the traffic less of a problem linking the motorway network to within two hundred yards of the ground, and if we could find some extra parking within the development of the eastern relief road that would be a big plus.

Sorry to be a pessimist, but York Court have already strung us along for this long. What's saying they aren't just going to wait it out another 6 months until we find somewhere else then they can fully wash their hands of all this

Heard the residents on the Jolly Sailor could be interested in operating a park and ride scheme......you park your car there and give them the keys and they then take it for a ride, never to be seen again

I know it's way past being an option for Trinity but how predictable is it that the council are looking at getting rid of the Thornes House School site and reinvesting the money in Castleford. See Wakefield Express for details.

Entirely

That's Wakefield College - not Wakefield MDC.