Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:20 pm  

dboy wrote:

FYI, the sports facilities at Wakefield College have all just been closed.

They now hire Lightwaves and have no outdoor fields to compare with what they had at Thornes Park.

Not a new thing, they were using lightwaves and Thornes athletics facilities 20 years ago when i was there. The old Thornes house facilities should have been pulled down years ago anyway. I believe other agreements are in place to use more modern facilities elsewhere.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:31 pm  

sixtogo wrote:

Snip

Brilliant summation of the situation and sadly very true in every paragraph and although some people on here won't believe it or want it, personally I think he's 100% on the money unfortunately.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:56 pm  

Theboyem wrote:

Not a new thing, they were using lightwaves and Thornes athletics facilities 20 years ago when i was there. The old Thornes house facilities should have been pulled down years ago anyway. I believe other agreements are in place to use more modern facilities elsewhere.

They were using Lightwaves when it was still current and well maintained.

The facilities there now are terrible. They have only used it since September because the college want to sell TP for housing.

The college has no agreements elsewhere and the athletics track was not used by the college, unless hired separately.

Where are the modern facilities you talk of?

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:07 pm  

dboy wrote:

They were using Lightwaves when it was still current and well maintained.

The facilities there now are terrible. They have only used it since September because the college want to sell TP for housing.

The college has no agreements elsewhere and the athletics track was not used by the college, unless hired separately.

Where are the modern facilities you talk of?

The last time i went into lightwaves it was for a beer festival so i'll have to take your word for that. I'll ask my mate who works in the sports department there his opinion on it.

The college hire out places to use, just like it did when I was there with the athletics track. I know they did because i used it many times whilst there.

And they have the use of Croftons facilities now as well where they have just built a shiney new sixth form.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:24 pm  

Anyway moving on given its in the same district would Cas getting the ok for their 'community stadium' a couple of junctions up the motorway legally lessen the need for the council to provide sporting facilities? Could they point to that as an alternative to Newmarket?

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:41 pm  

Theboyem wrote:

The last time i went into lightwaves it was for a beer festival so i'll have to take your word for that. I'll ask my mate who works in the sports department there his opinion on it.

The college hire out places to use, just like it did when I was there with the athletics track. I know they did because i used it many times whilst there.

And they have the use of Croftons facilities now as well where they have just built a shiney new sixth form.

The college does not have access to the Crofton facilities. They closed TP saying the college would use QEGS...yeah right!

One fitness class at college is taught in a cookery room at F block.

Ask your teacher mate about the 3 "classrooms" they have at Lightwaves, or the building classes that take place next door to the classrooms!

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:58 pm  

Loving how so many people who do not have current knowledge are writing all this off!

You will all be immensely pleased to know that we have every expectation of delivering something that we can all be proud of - be that at BV or NM - and there is very good reason for our stance on NM which we will not alter - unless all the right conditions are met!

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:11 pm  

dboy wrote:

The college does not have access to the Crofton facilities. They closed TP saying the college would use QEGS...yeah right!

One fitness class at college is taught in a cookery room at F block.

Ask your teacher mate about the 3 "classrooms" they have at Lightwaves, or the building classes that take place next door to the classrooms!

To be fair that does sound very Wakey college-esque from when i was there! They dumped us in the old ings road school for a while! I am though assured that plans are afoot to improve matters. Guess time will tell!

What it does show is that despite better facilities already being available like QEGS or Crofton there is no guarantee that they will actually use them. It comes down to money and budget cuts means that whilst academies can gain extra money to fund improvements, publicly funded colleges are struggling big time and i know that one for a fact! The build it and they will come strapline doesn't add up for a major build at Newmarket i'm afraid as it has to be paid for somehow and that can only be by charging more for its use than many could afford. A smaller development may work out financially but a large one? Doubt it, it will run up too many debts. I also think that it is time to push for the BV refurb and forget NM.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:15 pm  

TRB wrote:

Loving how so many people who do not have current knowledge are writing all this off!

You will all be immensely pleased to know that we have every expectation of delivering something that we can all be proud of - be that at BV or NM - and there is very good reason for our stance on NM which we will not alter - unless all the right conditions are met!

You said that about 4 years ago as well......

Sorry but it is difficult to have any positivity about this anymore. A case of same old same. It's not a go at you or any of you involved but my expectation of seeing anything come out of this is zero.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:17 pm  

Hate to say it but I'm in the same boat, I expect nothing to materialise as it seems to always be the case.

I commend the efforts of those beating the drums but until I see a brick laid I'm going to remain pretty cynical about it all.