Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:52 pm  

Clearwing wrote:

Knock our half down and I reckon their bit'll collapse. We can then rebuild the bit we need.

I should've been a property developer.

Probably best doing at night when no-ones looking.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:02 am  

rhino65 wrote:

Probably best doing at night when no-ones looking.

Or when Yorkshire cricket are playing

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:15 am  

LCC loaned YCC money to acquire the ground because they the council do not want the city to lose test cricket and all the prestige and revenue it brings and GH said they are in negotiations with the council looking for ways to finance the redevelopment .The council put more importance on the cricket ground than RL .Maybe it would have been better for us as RL fans to let YCC move to Durkar then with Mr Caddick coming in there would have been ample room to build a new RL stadium

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:38 am  

More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS.

More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:45 pm  

William Eve wrote: More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS. Absolutely - at the last set of financials Leeds only had c£2m in cash so that suggests some serious borrowing is required!!

William Eve wrote: More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS. Absolutely - at the last set of financials Leeds only had c£2m in cash so that suggests some serious borrowing is required!!

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:50 pm  

William Eve wrote: More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS. Think Gary is playing the age old game of brinkmanship. The building programme for the north stand looks a bit optimistic. I suspect the local population will not allow night working or maybe Sunday working. So unlike most construction works if work falls behind programme ,major problem look likely. The situation has disaster written all over it. Even worse Gary may have to pay back his loan. Looking on the bright side I suspect caddick builders will be hot favorites to win the building contract.

William Eve wrote: More whinging - this time it's GH Last week it was YCCC's Mark Arthur. Still no mention of how short of funds they are before redevelopment can commence. If neither Leeds or YCCC have the funds to go ahead with redevelopment, then tough. Public funds should not be used to either fund or bail out private entities. SCROUNGERS. Think Gary is playing the age old game of brinkmanship. The building programme for the north stand looks a bit optimistic. I suspect the local population will not allow night working or maybe Sunday working. So unlike most construction works if work falls behind programme ,major problem look likely. The situation has disaster written all over it. Even worse Gary may have to pay back his loan. Looking on the bright side I suspect caddick builders will be hot favorites to win the building contract.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:02 pm  

Is the suggestion that the north stand and south stand would be built at the same time? What are the chances of this going ahead? Appears increasingly unlikely from what I have read... but I haven't read much!

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:08 pm  

Backwoodsman wrote:

Think Gary is playing the age old game of brinkmanship. The building programme for the north stand looks a bit optimistic. I suspect the local population will not allow night working or maybe Sunday working. So unlike most construction works if work falls behind programme ,major problem look likely.
The situation has disaster written all over it. Even worse Gary may have to pay back his loan. Looking on the bright side I suspect caddick builders will be hot favorites to win the building contract.

The North Stand can be written off as the fault of the YCCC and their failure to provide their share of the funding if it doesn't go ahead. The focus then shifts back to the South Stand and why redevelopment can't go ahead. Can't blame YCCC in that instance.

I'm not convinced Leeds are anywhere close to being in a financial position to fund either project. I hope to be proven wrong.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:47 pm  

William Eve wrote:

I hope to be proven wrong.

You usually are.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:14 pm  

As I have previously stated this whole scenario has disaster stamped all over it. As William quite rightly states ,the club does not seem to have a reasonable amount of cash to fund the project. So it means borrowing a large amount of money. Probably not a smart move as we enter uncertain financial times, brexit and all that. My opinion would be to build a new south stand which would not break the bank. Then take stock of the situation and contemplate the north stand project. Obviously yorks cricket would suffer fixture set back for a number of years. But would eventually get back into the main fixture programme. The downside would be the time factor, it would of course put them several years behind schedule.