Re: Stadium Developments : Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:40 pm  

BillyRhino wrote:

Nah, your only hope of a new stadium is if Newmarket gets the go ahead, that The Wakefield and District Community Trust allow you and Wakey to share it.

Something you should have sorted out years ago.

I can understand them with nice stadiums having a pop,But when i stand at the back of the sticks at leeds witch is the same as the north stand at wakey ,looking at that sandpit of a pitch i dont see your point.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:32 am  

BillyRhino wrote:

So that'll be .....yes, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats won't be building a new state of the art Stadium as I previously claimed will it?

You'll be tenants.Just like Wigan RL. Indeed, possibly sharing the facilities with a football team....just like Wigan!


carry on

I'm guessing that you beleive the Rhinos bought and paid for the East stand at Headingley?

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:00 pm  

Good on Wakey, excellent news for them when it all comes off.

For people saying the new roof is pointless, whose to say that when the new stadium gets built they can't sell it on to someone else, it could be a good cheap option for HKR for the South end of the ground after the North has been built.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:22 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Good on Wakey, excellent news for them when it all comes off.

For people saying the new roof is pointless, whose to say that when the new stadium gets built they can't sell it on to someone else, it could be a good cheap option for HKR for the South end of the ground after the North has been built.

Or Leeds for their Western Terrace.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:25 pm  

The Clan wrote:

I'm guessing that you beleive the Rhinos bought and paid for the East stand at Headingley?

They did They sold assets to generate some cash and used innovative agreements with existing sponsors to top that up a little.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:26 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Or Leeds for their Western Terrace.

Unlike Wakey, Leeds have no need or reason or intention to cover the W Terrace.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:30 pm  

MjM wrote:

Unlike Wakey, Leeds have no need or reason or intention to cover the W Terrace.

Leeds don't have a need or reason to improve the experience for the away supporters? Surely the people running a ‘Grade A’ (is Headingley a Grade A?) stadium should have intentions of doing so.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:36 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Leeds don't have a need or reason to improve the experience for the away supporters? Surely the people running a ‘Grade A’ (is Headingley a Grade A?) stadium should have intentions of doing so.

Headingley is grade A (it ****es all over the criteria - in fact it's probably the only traditional RL ground fully compliant with Framing the Future). I had a chat with the S Stand architect last year - after that project is done, they're waiting on YCCC to find their cash to do the N Stand. After that, the W Terrace may need replacing, but it will always be an open terrace, possibly with facilities underneath. That is years and years (possibly decades and decades) away though.

Although a roof is feasible it is not considered desirable - not only due to planning considerations but also because the club knows an open end is popular when it's sunny. We get more sun in Leeds than Barcelona y'know.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:47 pm  

MjM wrote:

Headingley is grade A (it ****es all over the criteria - in fact it's probably the only traditional RL ground fully compliant with Framing the Future). I had a chat with the S Stand architect last year - after that project is done, they're waiting on YCCC to find their cash to do the N Stand. After that, the W Terrace may need replacing, but it will always be an open terrace, possibly with facilities underneath. That is years and years (possibly decades and decades) away though.

Although a roof is feasible it is not considered desirable - not only due to planning considerations but also because the club knows an open end is popular when it's sunny. We get more sun in Leeds than Barcelona y'know.

Yes, watching RL on open terracing when the sun is shining is a joy, but conversely, as someone who frequents Belle Vue quite often, it is terrible when it’s raining.

I know a common reason as to why the end terrace at Headingley cannot be covered is due to the houses behind it, however if you look at the latest image of the new roof over the Northern Terrace at Belle Vue, the supports at the back of the terrace hardly rise significantly above the existing elevation, so that shouldn’t be an issue with this cheap solution.

Still if a Grade A stadium still leaves some supporters vulnerable to the elements, then I’ll have to amend what I thought a Grade A stadium constituted.

Re: Stadium Developments : Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:57 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Still if a Grade A stadium still leaves some supporters vulnerable to the elements, then I’ll have to amend what I thought a Grade A stadium constituted.

A stadium with an operational capacity of at least 12,000, with at least 12,000 of the stadium capacity under cover and at least 5,000 seats (all of which are under cover and available for use).

Fairly straightforward as defined by the RFL. Since the average Leeds attendance could all be accommodated under cover it is not the most pressing of priorities to erect further cover.