FWIW Guisley have to improve their ground ie more turnstiles, dressing and kit rooms and extra seating by 31.03.11 just to stay in their league (Blue Square North) or they will be relegated.They are going great guns this season and could get promoted and if that is the case they will have to imprive their ground again for Conference. Cant see them coming all way from Guisley to ground share with us.

I'm sure it wouldn't be on the same scale

Good point. I suppose any Guiseley fan may well be very hacked off with a potential move to Wakefield. Perhaps he's going to move us to Guiseley. I had a look on the Guiseley forum a little earlier and there wasn't even a sniff of anything to do with Parkin or Wakefield Trinity.

Having said that,a wendyball team with the name Wakefield will probably attract more attention than Guiseley.

The one that lived at Belle Vue, and now at College Grove, hasn't as of yet.

Was meaning if they got into the Conference then into the football league.

Possibly - small town near Leeds or small city near Leeds!

I would love him to buy Trin and Wakefield fc, a all Wakefield stadium, I know Wakefield fc have not many fans but could change with the right backing...

also brought horwich RMI to the town and renamed them leigh RMI and they made it to the conference iirc.
I believe the people of horwich started a new club.at what level i dont know.

I thought Leigh Genesis (awful name) had issues with levels of rent they had to pay at LSV?



Would be nice! It's cheap entertainment down at College Grove when work allows me to pop down.

Is he, cash or assets?

So in these days of recession and the abominable state of the club how much of it do you reckon he's going to chuck down our particular drain?

As I said in a 100 words or more how do you know this and why would he do it. Not being confrontational but you don't get 170 million pounds by being a fool. I'm finding it hard to imagine what's in it for this particular Dragon

Genesis dont play there now.they never stood a chance at the lsv,they would have needed 1500 gates to play ther.they now play at atherton the same ground as laburnum rovers i think.

It looks good to me and there must be some substance to this rumour as it's been doing the rounds for a few weeks now. If this happens then the future of Wakefield Trinity and pro sport in Wakefield will have a very bright future. Newmarket is the key to our future and having it in use all year round will make it more viable. WTRLFC being run by professional forward thinking wealthy backers is a very exciting prospect and I hope that this rumour is true

It seems to me that consolidating all of his businesses at NM would be a very shrewd move, not to mention getting a £15 million stadium for his wendyball team free of charge as part of the deal.

I'd also suggest that the level of debt that our club has is peanuts to this type of operator; he may well see the prospect of clearing those debts then running a SL club at break-even as an acceptable cost of achieving all the additional benefits that acquiring us would bring.

I don't disagree with you that after looking at the club he could easily say "it's not for me - I'm out", but I do think that there's some logic and plausibility in his alleged interest. I, for one, am rather childishly crossing everything and hoping aginst hope that this particular rumour comes good.

Peanuts maybe but thats why hes rich,shrewd. Without being de meaning to RL, he will know football is where the money is. If he wants to finance a team like Trin while benefitting from NM etc then im for it.If he pumps money into his football and in doing so, RL, it has to benefit the wildcats.

running a succesful SuperLeague team is peanuts compared to running a football league team... they could run Trinity as a tax deductable item....

dont know who this guy is... and maybe we are just searching in vain for a 'Knight in Shining Armour'... but hell we need some type of miracle... why not this one??

I for one hope this is true... can only see positives in it for everyone

Probably about the same that he throws down the drain in Guisely, or throws down the drain running a string of race horses or would have thrown down the drain buying LUFC etc.

Would you consider the other Dragons who poor money down other drains that are RL clubs Simon Moran, Ken Davy, Ian Lennegan, Paul Caddick, Steve O'Conner & Ted Richardson to be fools?

the last ones a certainty!!

See that is what so annoys me on these forums. Just because you want it doesn't make it so!

I'd love it to be true but how do you know. Why do you assume that because he loves Guisely, race horses and LUFC he will feel the same about us - please explain - as poor old me can't see the connection! I personally have had enough of nods and winks and comments such as "great bloke" I'd rather the facts good or bad.

I say again tell me what's in it for him and how you know this and I'll gladly accept what you and others say - otherwise I'd be a fool - the sort of fool who believed Ted (I can safely assume you are one of the 99% of folk on here who always knew he was a wrongun)

There is an existing connection you know - Guisely have been using BV for training for some time now - hence where the contacts have been made.

What his general motivation is - we can only speculate, but his worldly wealth is not generally disputed.

I might add that there are more than party still interested and in talks, so all of this may not end how we think!

So once again some one knows whats going on, same old crap, dont tell the fans. We have to wait and see, TRB will wink now and again, but no one from the club will let the real people know whats happening, us the FANS.TRB i reapeat, we are sick of it, if some one knows whats going on, just frigging tell us

Who knows what's in it for him? Why did Sheikh Mansour buy Man City? Is there oil under Manchester?

He's obviously not interested because he thinks there's a quick buck to be made, nor does he need to make one. Why did he want his own company to expand to reach a turnover of 500m? He was a multi-millionaire at the time. Did he need the extra cash?

I guess some people just like the challenge. If he can be the one who takes a famous name like Wakefield Trinity and brings back the glory days to the club, it reflects well on him as a person/businessman, and in the meantime provides entertainment for him, his friends and his business associates. We're all in it for fun (or that's how it's supposed to be). Maybe he can get his kicks from running the club too?

So, to summarize... I have absolutely no idea.

Same here, that's why I would suggest actions speak louder than words. Words are cheap and there's an abundance of them on here. I'm not denying the mans motives or hi ability to deliver. I'll just believe it when I see it. I'll leave faith to the experts in dog collars

FFS - all I'm telling you is rumour and gossip - as much as it is possible to tell.

Do you not think that it's impossible to try and represent supporters interests without stumbling along bits and pieces of information - none of which are fact yet because no deals have been done.

There is nothing to tell - yet - and whether you're sick of it or not makes no difference at this time. Patience is required by all of us, but I remain hopeful of a positive outcome and will continue to try and present the supporters interests in the best way that I can.

=#BF40001) we guess like we always have to with this club, but hell its nice to dream for a while, and its saving the NHS a fortune in anti depressants.
=#0000FF2) with his line of work and interests all being in one area, him getting a great deal on all 3 aspects of the deal (or what i believe to be the deal) and having everything close to hand to save a very busy man a lot of time, no brainer to me.
=#40FF003) dont need to be clever to realise what Ted was all about, the point when people realised is not important, just the fact that some never wanted to believe and probably still dont, now that was and is a problem, but that doesnt sit as comfortably.