Re: Stadium and other issues : Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:58 pm  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote: I’m surprised you didn’t take a photo of the New Big Screen, it was displaying the Trinity and Halifax logo and was crystal clear from the South end seats, I wonder if the club could earn a bit of money from advertising, pre KO, hopefully show the team sheet as the current PA system isn’t very effective just now. Not my photos, if Callum Walker can steal material so can I! https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... -panthers/

Dunkirk Spirit wrote: I’m surprised you didn’t take a photo of the New Big Screen, it was displaying the Trinity and Halifax logo and was crystal clear from the South end seats, I wonder if the club could earn a bit of money from advertising, pre KO, hopefully show the team sheet as the current PA system isn’t very effective just now. Not my photos, if Callum Walker can steal material so can I! https://www.totalrl.com/wakefield-trini ... -panthers/

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:51 am  

I would watch Wakefield AFC at Belle Vue.

Up the Trin

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:02 am  

Wakefield City wrote:

I would watch Wakefield AFC at Belle Vue.

Up the Trin

Not for me. They should stay at Fev.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:20 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Not for me. They should stay at Fev.

Is it just WAFC, or are you against any FC club playing at BV. The whole idea of the upgraded pitch is to enable other sports to use and therefore increase the revenue for our club.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:36 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Not for me. They should stay at Fev.

Not on that pitch

Up the Trin

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:37 am  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote:

Is it just WAFC, or are you against any FC club playing at BV. The whole idea of the upgraded pitch is to enable other sports to use and therefore increase the revenue for our club.

Just them.

Not that I would go watch any to be honest.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:01 am  

So long as it's financially viable, then I've no issue with whoever playing at Belle Vue. Would I go watch Wakefield AFC definitely not .

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:47 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Not for me. They should stay at Fev.

No they absolutely should play at BV or what’s the point in a revenue raising pitch

We may as well have kept the old pitch which was adequate for just Trinity.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:31 pm  

I have just had a look at Wakefield AFC webpage to find out something about them and I am really surprised how low down they are in the football pecking order. They are in the same league as Nostell Miners Welfare and Glasshoughton Welfare and their home gates are around 200. From their league position promotion is unlikely this season. They may have great potential but it could be a season or two before they could start to draw decent crowds I would think. However my knowledge of football in general is extremely limited and like others have said I would not be going to their games.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:49 pm  

Prince Buster wrote:

I have just had a look at Wakefield AFC webpage to find out something about them and I am really surprised how low down they are in the football pecking order. They are in the same league as Nostell Miners Welfare and Glasshoughton Welfare and their home gates are around 200. From their league position promotion is unlikely this season. They may have great potential but it could be a season or two before they could start to draw decent crowds I would think. However my knowledge of football in general is extremely limited and like others have said I would not be going to their games.

They are currently averaging 500 at Fev.

The Coach is a mate of my son and although I have no interest in them myself I do hear stuff.

The crux is ambition and potential and in that respect they have far more than Nostell Miners Welfare and Glasshoughton Welfare. The aim is to create a football club to suit a city of Wakefields size. By that I don't mean they see themselves in the Premiership in ten years or indeed ever. They want to create a quality semi-pro club competing with the likes Redditch or Stourbridge in the Northern & Southern Premier Division, Southern Premier Central and Isthmian League or not far off.

That is possible with the reasonably wealthy backer they now have.

For us that could possibly mean 22+ games a season, with an anticipated average attendance of 2,000 per game. Apart from the rent we get that's also a lot of beer and burgers we can shift. They won't be able to train there and we ourselves may have to have some of our subsidiary teams train elsewhere in winter, summer not an issue, but the gain would outway the loss IMHO.

Whether it happens, watch this space.