Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:12 pm  

mattyg159 wrote:

I am really pleased with tonights meeting, I think it was a big announcement, we need 5000 signatures to tick a franchise box and by getting everyone to Cedar Court, getting bums on seats, stirring speeches from John Kear and Neil Fox people would sign up - I think Andrew Glover showed excellent marketing skills, he is putting his money where his mouth is by developing Belle Vue and giving the ground much needed atmosphere, I applaud Andrew James and all the staff, its only a few months ago we nearly didn't have a club to support, at least now we are in with a fighting chance of getting a franchise.

well said that man come on sign up, give us 5,000 fans base ticks the box and tick the RFL right off

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:16 pm  

Let's not get hyper critical about what we were told tonight, at the of the day Andrew Glover is about to invest a massive sum of money into the temp development of Belle Vue and he should be thanked and commended for that.

SO WHAT IF THE MEETING WAS OVERSOLD TO US!!!!!!!!!!

Get real some of you!

The club have explained the need, the urgency and the importance of reaching 5000 members. They ave also now created a number of ways in which to become a member, those being:
* Season Tickets
* Gold, Silver, Bronze Membership
* Spirit of 1873 Club

No one has put a gun to your head, join or don't join it's that simple!

As for the redevelopment of Belle Vue
Who do you think will benefit from Andrew Glover spending his own money to do this?
Answer is you & me & every other fan who attends the ground over the next 2 or 3 years.
* Better terracing on the North Terrace and covered
* New covered West stand with new supporters bars
* More covered seating in front of the hospitality suite
* A new open plan supporters bar on the top floor of the hospitality suite

Jesus Christ! We were almost blinking out of existence 6 months ago!

This redevelopment will give Wakefield Trinity a Super League compliant stadium and it will be ready before Salfords and before ST Helens. It will make Belle Vue better than Odsal, Better than New Craven Park and way ahead of Wheldon Rd.
That will put pressure on the RFL!

Short of doing a David Copperfield magic act and unveiling a ready built stadium that had been conjured out of thin air, what more do you want from Andrew Glover!

Forget the Trolls that have decended on this thread who desperately want to dismiss this as nothing more than another drawing, a Richard Wrightesque PR stunt or some kind of con to get Trinity fans to shell out more money.

They don't care about you, they don't care about our club, they only want to pour derision on our plans because it scares the F^*K out of them! Their lives are so shallow that they have nothing else in their lives other than to SH]$ stir and fuel the feeling of being let down, ignore them they're nothing!

Now get some perspective with regard to what was announced tonight and stop behaving as though you've been conned.

We have a man whose willing to invest heavily to ensure we have the best possible chance of retaining a licence when most of us have resigned ourselves to being demoted.

I for one appreciate his efforts and his level of belief!

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:16 pm  

Well, having waded through 10 pages of crap, I'm not wading through any more. Anyone who doesn't think that is a massive announcement is a fool. If you built the meeting up in your own head to be the second coming then that's your own problem. The club only advertised the meeting and made you want to turn up, the fact that you invented whole scenarios of multi-billionaires investing in the club and a brand new stadium having already been built, ready for us to play Huddersfield in this week, or whatever else your flight of fancy decided was going to be announced shows you don't live in the real world. The club said the meeting would be massively important, that it would be the biggest meeting in the club's history. If it keeps us in Superleague, then it will be - don't forget they didn't just want us there to see the plans, they also need the members. They HAVE to have the members if we have any chance of staying in Superleague - the fewer people at the meeting, the smaller chance of this happening. In fact without proper advertising generating a desire to turn up, the meeting was in danger of being all the same people as usual, i.e. all the people who already are members e.t.c.

This news will, at the very least, mean that the RFL can't kick us out and say "they won't have a ground fit for our standards", because we will. Yes, they can still kick us out, but that is always going to be the case - we have just made it that much harder for them, and that is all that we can realistically do at this point.

Although, on the other hand, I can see why many of you think this is rubbish - all those broken promises of Andy Glover's since he's taken over, it's been terrible. Never seen the club so badly run, he just can't be trusted to do anything that he says. Oh no, wait...

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:17 pm  

No figures mentioned. Just said he and other investors will fund it. After buying the ground back from the bank of Ireland and redeveloping it for short term use ag is really putting his money where his mouth is. This is a significant investment and could frame the future of our club. People need to look at the bigger picture here and realise if we get the 5k members it is going to be very very difficult for us to be kicked out of sl.

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:17 pm  

We have a LIVE franchise bid so we can add to it all the time upto franchise day, this is due to the unrealistic expectation the new company could create a franchise application in 3 weeks so the new designs and number if members will be in our franchise bid and will be used in decision making process

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:19 pm  

arliebird wrote:

how much money will all the devlopments cost and would it be a waste of money as the club could well be in a new stadium 1 year later and then what happens to bell vue??

The work will only be carried out if we get a place in super league so in the long run it would be very worth the cost in the short term no licence no outlay!

Drawing could have been more snazzy looked very back of fag pack to me!!!!

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:19 pm  

The Clan wrote:

Let's not get hyper critical about what we were told tonight, at the of the day Andrew Glover is about to invest a massive sum of money into the temp development of Belle Vue and he should be thanked and commended for that.

SO WHAT IF THE MEETING WAS OVERSOLD TO US!!!!!!!!!!

Get real some of you!

The club have explained the need, the urgency and the importance of reaching 5000 members. They ave also now created a number of ways in which to become a member, those being:
* Season Tickets
* Gold, Silver, Bronze Membership
* Spirit of 1873 Club

No one has put a gun to your head, join or don't join it's that simple!

As for the redevelopment of Belle Vue
Who do you think will benefit from Andrew Glover spending his own money to do this?
Answer is you & me & every other fan who attends the ground over the next 2 or 3 years.
* Better terracing on the North Terrace and covered
* New covered West stand with new supporters bars
* More covered seating in front of the hospitality suite
* A new open plan supporters bar on the top floor of the hospitality suite

Jesus Christ! We were almost blinking out of existence 6 months ago!

This redevelopment will give Wakefield Trinity a Super League compliant stadium and it will be ready before Salfords and before ST Helens. It will make Belle Vue better than Odsal, Better than New ven Park and way ahead of Wheldon Rd.
That will put pressure on the RFL!

Short of doing a David Copperfield magic act and unveiling a ready built stadium that had been conjured out of thin air, what more do you want from Andrew Glover!

Forget the Trolls that have defended on this thread who desperately want to dismiss this as nothing more than another drawing, a Richard Wrightesque PR stunt or some kind of con to get Trinity fans to shell out more money.

They don't care about you, they don't care about our club, they only want to pour derision on our plans because it scares the F^*K out of them! Their lives are so shallow that they have nothing else in their lives other than to SH]$ stir and fuel the feeling of being let down, ignore them they're nothing!

Now get some perspective with regard to what was announced tonight and stop behaving as though you've been conned.

We have a man whose willing to invest heavily to ensure we have the best possible chance of retaining a licence when most of us have resigned ourselves to being demoted.

I for one appreciate his efforts and his level of belief!

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:20 pm  

The Clan wrote:

Short of doing a David Copperfield magic act and unveiling a ready built stadium that had been conjured out of thin air, what more do you want from Andrew Glover!

[Trolls] don't care about you, they don't care about our club, they only want to pour derision on our plans because it scares the F^*K out of them! Their lives are so shallow that they have nothing else in their lives other than to SH]$ stir and fuel the feeling of being let down, ignore them they're nothing!

Now get some perspective with regard to what was announced tonight and stop behaving as though you've been conned.

We have a man whose willing to invest heavily to ensure we have the best possible chance of retaining a licence when most of us have resigned ourselves to being demoted.

I for one appreciate his efforts and his level of belief!

Agree with everything you've said, but these bits in particular.

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:21 pm  

Shoe Shine Johnny wrote:

Wakefield cannot add to the document they submitted on April 1. That is what the licensing decision will be made on. How can this, or any, announcement make a difference? That is why there was a deadline so that clubs could be judged over the 3 years and not some cobbled together idea a month before the franchise decision.

According to James Elston they can cos they are a new business and can keep doing so until Dday.

Re: NEWS FROM TONIGHT'S BIG MEETING : Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:22 pm  

the cat in the hat wrote:

Well, having waded through 10 pages of crap, I'm not wading through any more. Anyone who doesn't think that is a massive announcement is a fool. If you built the meeting up in your own head to be the second coming then that's your own problem. The club only advertised the meeting and made you want to turn up, the fact that you invented whole scenarios of multi-billionaires investing in the club and a brand new stadium having already been built, ready for us to play Huddersfield in this week, or whatever else your flight of fancy decided was going to be announced shows you don't live in the real world. The club said the meeting would be massively important, that it would be the biggest meeting in the club's history. If it keeps us in Superleague, then it will be - don't forget they didn't just want us there to see the plans, they also need the members. They HAVE to have the members if we have any chance of staying in Superleague - the fewer people at the meeting, the smaller chance of this happening. In fact without proper advertising generating a desire to turn up, the meeting was in danger of being all the same people as usual, i.e. all the people who already are members e.t.c.

This news will, at the very least, mean that the RFL can't kick us out and say "they won't have a ground fit for our standards", because we will. Yes, they can still kick us out, but that is always going to be the case - we have just made it that much harder for them, and that is all that we can realistically do at this point.

Although, on the other hand, I can see why many of you think this is rubbish - all those broken promises of Andy Glover's since he's taken over, it's been terrible. Never seen the club so badly run, he just can't be trusted to do anything that he says. Oh no, wait...