Re: Wakefield (a) : Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:45 pm  

No his conversions were faultless as it goes. Well done Ben

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:58 am  

Not kept up with events but why are Wakey leaving Belle Vue (and Wakefield)next season?
Grounds not the best but equally not the worst and it could surely e developed, presume it's a landlord/financial issue?

Re: Wakefield (a) : Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:46 pm  

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory!
At least we now know who can tackle and who can't
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Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:55 am  

mattwom wrote:

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory!
At least we now know who can tackle and who can't
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???

Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:14 am  

JENKY wrote:

Not kept up with events but why are Wakey leaving Belle Vue (and Wakefield)next season?
Grounds not the best but equally not the worst and it could surely e developed, presume it's a landlord/financial issue?

Wakey don't own their ground but they still have to maintain/develop it.
Its as old as the hills and is too expensive to maintain and/or improve to meet the likely rise in criteria required to operate in the SL, to continue at belle view would be throwing money down the drain as no value can be added to it for the club.
There have been lots of plans made and passed, agreements, deals and promises for a new stadium but the parties involved have not come through with them, all sorts of shadey dealings have been going on between developers and wakefield council but at this moment it seems Wakey have been done up like a kipper.
poop is gonna hit the fan soon but Wakey have to make their move now because its gone on for far too long, they have to stop wasting money on a ground that is not financially viable.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:22 pm  

So the new owners of the ground agreed to 're-develop/modernize' it, but looks like it was an 'empty promise/LIE' !! To55ers

Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:45 pm  

Well I don't really know the true ins and outs but from what I can gather -

A new stadia was planned to be built on the outskirts of Wakey by the developer Yorkcourt, it included some retail and warehousing, planning permission was granted for the retail and warehousing on the condition the developer also built the new stadium.
Meanwhile belle vue was put up for sale by the previous owners (not Wakey), Wakey were seriously considering buying the ground but were persuaded not to bid for it with the view that their new stadium was about to be built, belle vue was then bought by 88M for an undisclosed fee on the condition Wakey got a new lease to remain till the new ground was built.
So Yorkcourt start the warehousing build, completed it, then cease trading I think, I dunno, anyway they didn't build the stadium.
So that's where we're at.
Yorkcourt build their warehouse and don't have to fulfill the conditions laid down in the planning consent.
88M get some land (belle vue) to develop when wakey leave, at I presume a knockdown price since there didn't appear to be any other bidders.
I think Wakey council are up to their nuts in all these shenanigans too but the bottom line is, Wakey get zip

Like I said, I don't pretend to know the ins and outs, there may be some inaccuracies but generally the whole thing stinks like a hot day on Grimsby docks, only time will tell if Wakey have any recourse, as it stands, Belle Vue is not a viable project going forward, if they owned it....that would be different, but they don't.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:22 pm  

Budgiezilla wrote:

So the new owners of the ground agreed to 're-develop/modernize' it, but looks like it was an 'empty promise/LIE' !! To55ers

What upanunder says does not even scratch the surface, this thing has been going on for years and tbh I would not know where to start, but one thing I would say it would have to be in instalments over a fair amount of time by which time you'd probably forgot the start of it, it's not complex or hard to understand if your a Wakey fan, bottom line is the club has been shafted by Yorkcourt and Castleford Council.

Re: Wakefield (a) : Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:42 pm  

mr. chairman wrote:

and a few backhanders and brown envelopes . just hate these people , whatever happened to the old honest councillors that came off the council estate and didn't get paid . unlike these career politicians that employ all there family and cheat the expenses like the kinnocks of this world BENT the lot of them

Luv it. You're not wrong though pal.