Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:25 am  

M62 J30 TRINITY wrote:

If WMDC are skint they can still offer support to a community facility run by an independent trust not a club. The we have 3 clubs has been an easy cop out by the WMDC for years, plenty of towns/Cities have more than 1 sporting club but still offer help support and sometimes finance for the best facilities for its clubs and public. I don't think we expect WMDC to build the community stadium but a bit of support wouldn't go a miss. The sports facilities for a City the size of a Wakefield are a disgrace so you would think the local authority would do all they can to help sports faculties.

I am not disagreeing that it'd be nice for them to help all three clubs out. But it's getting harder and harder to justify it when you see what a state the district is in. However, what may be interesting to see is the amount of money other councils get compared to WMDC. And I'm struggling to think - certainly in rugby league - of two teams in the same council area bar Bradford perhaps and Hull and they will get loads of money from covering the east.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:28 am  

Fully wrote:

I am not disagreeing. However, what may be interesting to see is the amount of money other councils get compared to WMDC. And I'm struggling to think - certainly in rugby league - of two teams in the same council area bar Bradford perhaps and Hull and they will get loads of money from covering the east.

It probably doesn't matter to them but aren't Wigan and Leigh under the same council? Swinton and Salford?

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:57 am  

Kirklees have Huddersfield batley Dewsbury. Wigan council built Leigh sports village then we have the inept WMDC

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:12 am  

Fully wrote:

I am not disagreeing that it'd be nice for them to help all three clubs out. But it's getting harder and harder to justify it when you see what a state the district is in. However, what may be interesting to see is the amount of money other councils get compared to WMDC. And I'm struggling to think - certainly in rugby league - of two teams in the same council area bar Bradford perhaps and Hull and they will get loads of money from covering the east.

You are making the classic mistake of confusing capital spend with revenue spend. Putting £2m into a community stadium will have no effect on the number of care homes, libraries or other social care support mechanisms. It is capital spend and they can own a share of it if they like and hence still show it on their capital asset register!

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:59 pm  

What chance have we got when the leader of the council is a shareholder in the club that would suffer the most if we got a new stadium?

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:22 pm  

TrinityIHC wrote:

What chance have we got when the leader of the council is a shareholder in the club that would suffer the most if we got a new stadium?

The cynical ones amongst us, never thought that we would move to a new ground before Cas and that it would be 2 new grounds or none.
Of course, the gaol posts have moved, with regard to stadium requirements in SL and who knows, we may eventually see something for our club but, after so many knock backs and false/broken promises it is difficult to believe that anything will happen.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:06 pm  

TrinityIHC wrote:

What chance have we got when the leader of the council is a shareholder in the club that would suffer the most if we got a new stadium?

That is a myth.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:36 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

That is a myth.

No it most definitely isn't. He has admitted it previously, but acknowledged that he'd only bought the minimum value out of curiosity!

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:55 pm  

TRB wrote:

No it most definitely isn't. He has admitted it previously, but acknowledged that he'd only bought the minimum value out of curiosity!

Fair do's TRB - I'll trust your right on that one.
I still don't think WTW fans should feel threatened though on such a trivial thing as owning a few shares.

Re: The City of Wakefield Community Stadium : Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:00 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

Fair do's TRB - I'll trust your right on that one.
I still don't think WTW fans should feel threatened though on such a trivial thing as owning a few shares.

I don't think that its ownership of just a few shares that is the issue, it's more about even-handedness and large projects of this type usually need the people at the top to drive things forward and occasionally bang heads together.
Can the people of Wakefield rely on the council leader to do this or, will the project succeed in spite of who is in power ?