Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:36 am  

Any new stadium is a large facility which requires a high level of funding going forward. 13 or so home matches just will not generate sufficient cash to operate it long term, so one of the main considerations is how to maximise income to sustain it, and hopefully support the business within it, in our case the club.
With due respect to the people of Agbrigg and Belle Vue, they are not the best places to either live, or get to.
We ended up with Newmarket as this was the only place offering us the deal to build a stadium - it remains so. However, bearing in mind my earlier post, it does also offer a tremendous location to attract businesses from across the region and beyond as an excellent location for corporate days and events. This would help tremendously for the overall scheme. It's not the only consideration, but do not dismiss this issue when considering locations.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:56 am  

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 .

A major difference here though is that a huge percentage of Salford's home support lived in close proximity (walking distance) to the Willows so a move for them has put the ground much further away and the transport for getting in and out has been an issue for them as well as their lunatic owner.

A huge percentage of our home support do not live within walking distance of BelleVue and already drive/use public transport to games anyway. So a new stadium elsewhere for us does not have the same impact (providing the public transport and parking are suitable)

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:36 pm  

As the saying goes - Beggars can't be choosers. If you have little or no other options NM is the best and, like TRB says, the only available option. My only other concern would be moving in the direction of your local rivals (Fev and Cas) instead of moving away from them where there would be more scope for a newer audience and a bigger catchment area. The Pugney's site would have been the best IMO (along with Thornes Park). South of the city, nearer to Horbury and easier for the fans from Ossett to get to and geographically moving towards the un-tapped Barnsley area.

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:15 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

As the saying goes - Beggars can't be choosers. If you have little or no other options NM is the best and, like TRB says, the only available option. My only other concern would be moving in the direction of your local rivals (Fev and Cas) instead of moving away from them where there would be more scope for a newer audience and a bigger catchment area. The Pugney's site would have been the best IMO (along with Thornes Park). South of the city, nearer to Horbury and easier for the fans from Ossett to get to and geographically moving towards the un-tapped Barnsley area.

NM is further away from Fev than BV,unless someones moved Fev

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:43 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

As the saying goes - Beggars can't be choosers. If you have little or no other options NM is the best and, like TRB says, the only available option. My only other concern would be moving in the direction of your local rivals (Fev and Cas) instead of moving away from them where there would be more scope for a newer audience and a bigger catchment area. The Pugney's site would have been the best IMO (along with Thornes Park). South of the city, nearer to Horbury and easier for the fans from Ossett to get to and geographically moving towards the un-tapped Barnsley area.

Far and away the best option was the one near J39 but unfortunately our council didn't want anything to do with that once YCCC had declined the offer of what would have been a superb development. So that ship sailed a long time ago I'm afraid. Thornes Park was never a viable proposition in my opinion.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:55 pm  

Tbf nm is perfect location, especially for business opertunities the m62 corridor, al and m1 are litterly on the doorstep imop its a no brainer . Newmarket absolute must

Re: Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:08 pm  

Trinity1315 wrote:

Far and away the best option was the one near J39 but unfortunately our council didn't want anything to do with that once YCCC had declined the offer of what would have been a superb development. So that ship sailed a long time ago I'm afraid. Thornes Park was never a viable proposition in my opinion.

When that ship sailed a long time ago it certainly was not because of Wakefield Council, even after YCCC had no option but to pull out because of legal implications the then leader of Wakefield Council Colin Croxall did his upmost to bring about a new stadium for Wakefield Trinity on Denby Dale Rd, only to be thwarted by a certain individual who shall remain nameless.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:00 pm  

Is that the person with the large construction business that was not going to be awarded the building contract for that venture and that has a vested interest in a certain already establish county cricket RL & RU venue?

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:50 pm  

financialtimes wrote:

Is that the person with the large construction business that was not going to be awarded the building contract for that venture and that has a vested interest in a certain already establish county cricket RL & RU venue?

Well he was certainly 50% of the problem, but even so Councillor Croxall still tried his best to bring about a solution which were still available at the time, but his other option put personal finances first unfortunately
It was Colin's ambition to see them both playing on DD Road, and being a supporter of those clubs myself I can fully appreciate the disappointment he felt when it did not happen.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:58 pm  

Busy week - much happening!