Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:11 pm  

Obviously I cannot prove it but I genuinely believe I am in the majority in simply wanting to turn up once a fortnight at Belle Vue and be entertained by a Wakefield Trinity Rlfc team. I don't want to have to catch two buses to sit in an over priced seat in a soulless stadium next to a motorway. I am not interested in all the politics and the endless secret meetings . I firmly believe 80 percent of seaon ticket holders agree with me but a vocal few on here will try to say otherrwise.

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:38 pm  

The problem Ball in Hand is how the hell to you grow the club while ever it is at BV in its present state. We may have 1000 season ticket holders and maybe 2,500 fans. You may attract another 500 if we won a few games and you may get another 500 in if we could afford to spend thousands on community programmes, dance classes, school liaison schemes etc. You are simply not going to get new people attending games at BV. Add to that away fans will choose which games to attend, on a budget BV will be at the bottom of the list. So how you expect the club to survive with a few of you turning up once a fortnight I simply cannot work out. Add to that there is zero interest in the club from local residents in BV area. A move to NM would base the club within a local population who are interested in the game, plus away fans could enjoy modern facilities in comfort and safety. All this means added income, growth and better players.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:35 pm  

All I can say Belly is where is your evidence that the club will grow at NM ? My evidence is simple . Look at what has happened to Salford since the move to the AJ Bell. It's not working even with a money bags chairman ' We should look to gradually improve BV over ten year period starting with the Western Terrace if and when funds become available .

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:51 pm  

Great call to renovate Belle Vue. Just one thing though, we don't own it!

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 4:37 pm  

ball-in-hand wrote:

All I can say Belly is where is your evidence that the club will grow at NM ? My evidence is simple . Look at what has happened to Salford since the move to the AJ Bell. It's not working even with a money bags chairman ' We should look to gradually improve BV over ten year period starting with the Western Terrace if and when funds become available .

That's a bit rich, where is your evidence that 80% of the season ticket holders agree with you?

What about the upturn in fortunes experienced by Warrington, Hull FC and even Wigan after they moved to new stadiums, Salford is actually the anomaly not the rule.

We need to move, I don't think Newmarket is the right place either but we cannot stay at Belle Vue, it's killing us!

If I had the choice I'd move us to Denby Dale Rd near the new service station.

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:27 pm  

You have a chance of growing the club at NW, you have the 100% certainty that the club will fold if it has to stay at BV. The Salford move has been poorly managed, am I correct in thinking that when Sale play there it is sold out ? Good management is all thats required to grow the club at NM. Alan Sugar couldn`t get growth out of BV and the surrounding hole that is Agbrigg.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:38 pm  

We need nm big time ,if trinity want to challenge for trophy's etc the move would attacked better players,coaches,new start at Newmarket

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:09 pm  

In a perfect world, I'd love to be watching Wakey at a redeveloped BV...in reality I look forward to watching Wakey in a new stadium at NM.

Citing Salford as an example of how "moving out of town" can cripple attendances...they are an absolute basket case...self-obsessed owner, money bags superstar team, self-publicist coaches...still can't be successful over a season...

Nothing to do with the stadium...no one cares for RL in Salford-cum-Manchester.

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:44 pm  

ball-in-hand wrote:

Is there any way i can remove this endless and pointless thread from my computer.? Everytime it reappears at the top of the forum i am tricked in to believing that the diggers have started excavating the foundations at Newmarket only to read for the 500th time that " there has been a positive meeting but we cannot say too much at this stage but there will hopefully be some positive news soon" Now if some posters on here want to believe in father christmas they are entitled to do that but the reality is you need a lot of pennies to build a stadium and no one has any apart from city bankers who are not the most generous bunch.so if i could please have some sort of button that filters out fantasy posts like this one and leaves me to concentrate on reading and participating in discussions on rugby league matters i would be very grateful.

Your view is understandable, if disappointing. It won't stop me trying and it won't stop me posting what I can, when I can. Sorry if that upsets you, but you can choose to ignore it if you feel that way.

A public update will be issued very shortly.

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:24 am  

It's about the location for me. Yes the club need to move forward and generate new interest. I'm not a believer that that will be the answer to all our prayers. It will be the start of a massive amount of work required to generate interest , more investment and build relationships with the people of wake and business. It's not and never will be a matter of build it and they will come. I understand the urgency and attraction of a new stadium but I don't see the location a bonus. I also don't expect the surrounding s play any part in attracting a better class of player or coach .