Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:15 am  

lifelongfan wrote:

With reguards to the stadium and Public Inquiry, was JE insinuating that the council were holding things up, I just presumed that the government were in control of the PI.

no just wants to apply pressure on them after them letting us down with TP, if the council then applied pressure to the government who is looking at the PI it would hopefully hurry it along HTH

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:44 am  

JE is just telling you what you want to hear with regard the stadium (cant blame him). If anybody is holding things up at the minute it is YC and he is hardly going to publicly criticise them. They are stating it will take around 3 months to sort out the drainage ditch issues and this will need to be done and advertised before the PI. YC will have the biggest say in the bespoke time table and seem to be in no rush.

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:56 am  

rugbyball wrote:

JE is just telling you what you want to hear with regard the stadium (cant blame him). If anybody is holding things up at the minute it is YC and he is hardly going to publicly criticise them. They are stating it will take around 3 months to sort out the drainage ditch issues and this will need to be done and advertised before the PI. YC will have the biggest say in the bespoke time table and seem to be in no rush.

I'd rather want to hear that they are constantly on their back than sat down tossing it off what do you expect

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:09 am  

Morrison reckons this year could be his last, however he'll see how he feels half way through this season and make a decision then. Kear then basically said he would be daft to retire.

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:16 am  

Last night was great. Good to see so many people turning up. Everyone on the panel only had good things to say. At last i think the club and the fans are working together. Onwards and upwards

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:50 am  

Fordy wrote:

I think James was intimating that he is going to ask the council to put some pressure on the government, however to use his turn of phrase on another subject, I think "he is p-ing in the wind" as I don't think the council can do anything now that it has been called in.
It has to go through the process now, regardless of what anybody says. At least that's how I understand it works. Happy to be told I'm wrong if there is someone more in the know.

Maybe not, there may be an issue - but I can't prove it

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:52 am  

rugbyball wrote:

JE is just telling you what you want to hear with regard the stadium (cant blame him). If anybody is holding things up at the minute it is YC and he is hardly going to publicly criticise them. They are stating it will take around 3 months to sort out the drainage ditch issues and this will need to be done and advertised before the PI. YC will have the biggest say in the bespoke time table and seem to be in no rush.

Proof?

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:11 am  

I've been trying not think about the ownership of the ground as it's the one point which may take the shine off the Glover take over. Did he say anything about who now owns Belle Vue? Can we stay past this year if not in Super League? Is he looking to buy the ground? If not what will we do if NW does not come off? For me Oakwell for a season would be OK but no longer.
I like everything that Glover has done so far but owning or having a very long lease on your own ground is the key to a long term future.

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:15 am  

rugbyball wrote:

JE is just telling you what you want to hear with regard the stadium (cant blame him). If anybody is holding things up at the minute it is YC and he is hardly going to publicly criticise them. They are stating it will take around 3 months to sort out the drainage ditch issues and this will need to be done and advertised before the PI. YC will have the biggest say in the bespoke time table and seem to be in no rush.

You are Richard Wright and I claim my £5!

If anybody is holding things up at the moment it is Yorkcourt... what rubbish! They have been asked to provide additional environmental information and in effect reach a suitable position with Natural England and West Yorkshire Ecology on suitable habitat requirements, within the SUDs proposals, for the site. These guys are going to want the moon on a stick and Yorkcourt want the most economical drainage system possible... the answer will lie somewhere in the middle. They will probably end up having maybe three to four meetings with each other to go through the proposal to agree a scheme they can all agree on (Natural England & WYE will always agree reluctantly of course, but they will have to in the end). Also, within that there are statutory notice periods to advertise the agreed changes to the scheme. Three months is a realistic timetable and it is no good rushing this now, they just need to remove these two statutory objections and then to all intent and purposes the only major objector remains LCC.

James and everyone will continue to put as much pressure on MP's, council's, the Planning Inspectorate, as they should, but it will be what it will be now and the Planning Inspectorate and SoS office are in control of the process.

Re: Tonights an Audience With Night : Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:21 am  

B V Bob wrote:

I've been trying not think about the ownership of the ground as it's the one point which may take the shine off the Glover take over. Did he say anything about who now owns Belle Vue? Can we stay past this year if not in Super League? Is he looking to buy the ground? If not what will we do if NW does not come off? For me Oakwell for a season would be OK but no longer.
I like everything that Glover has done so far but owning or having a very long lease on your own ground is the key to a long term future.

The Bank of Ireland effectively own the ground and I understand that there is a legal covenant within the deeds that means that Bank of Ireland can't kick 'a' Wakefield Rugby League club out while ever they wish to play there. Plus, they won't be in a rush to either. The longer they wait the better the economic situation becomes and therefore they will get a better price for the ground when they sell. They just need to keep renewing the planning permission, collect a rent from Wakefield and they will be happy.