Just to clarify a few things.

NM was actually a last ditch thing that Ted cobbled up, and to be fair he had very little option.

The original scheme was to have been Thornes Park. Forgetting the fact that it turned out that the Council didn’t own the land, i personally think that one would have been a total winner. In many ways Thornes is better placed than BV.

I was a fan of Thornes. I was not keen on NM. Ted was, but the SWAG group was split. Not bitterly, just in preference. I don’t know if NM would have worked, nobody does, but for me it was to far out. Had it been in Stanley proper then yeah it would have been ok. But it was effectively in the middle of nowhere.

In the intervening 20 years Salfords experience has proved that to be a bad thing, but at the time it was nowhere near as obvious as it is today. That said, HKR ground was once considered a white elephant, but it’s doing ok now.

Truth is that on field success is a huge part of the success of any stadium.

'Sold Out' signs up for North and East stands again...we're definitely turning up in numbers. 

https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=T0BOKKQQGYD00 Full application gone in for the NS now.  Hopefully this happens sooner rather than later.

https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=T0BOKKQQGYD00 Full application gone in for the NS now.  Hopefully this happens sooner rather than later.

Khlav Kalash: https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=T0BOKKQQGYD00 Full application gone in for the NS now.  Hopefully this happens sooner rather than later.  Mr Ellis did say ,if the ground was full every home game ,he would think about, doing the North Stand (think he said there would be room for 2,000 plus extra fans) but it could cost about 5 million pounds to expand it.

Khlav Kalash: https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=T0BOKKQQGYD00 Full application gone in for the NS now.  Hopefully this happens sooner rather than later.  Mr Ellis did say ,if the ground was full every home game ,he would think about, doing the North Stand (think he said there would be room for 2,000 plus extra fans) but it could cost about 5 million pounds to expand it.

He might wait and see how well season tickets sell for 2026