Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:43 pm  

Is the South Stand "really" that bad in it's current state?
I know a fair bit of work was completed to make it safe again a good few years ago but can't we "update" the current stand further perhaps?! Might save a bit of money if that's what GH is worried about.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:14 pm  

RhinoLaney wrote:

Might save a bit of money if that's what GH is worried about.

I think GH is worried about money though only in so far as he realises Leeds' chance of screwing owt from the council is zero unless it's done on the back of YCC's plans. And that train's about to leave the station it seems. That won't necessarily preclude the work from being done but it will likely mean having to borrow at vastly inflated terms compared to earlier council deals with sports clubs.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:17 pm  

LCC are essentially bankrupt, there's not much chance of getting any funds from them

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:16 pm  

Nor should there be. In economic times like these it's cringeworthy that a sporting club can have the brass neck to ask a council for some money.

[Frosties.]

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:16 pm  

rugbyleague88 wrote:

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!

Well in that article GH says 'must start by September 1st'. Meaning we would definitely have to move out at the end of the season as we still have games to play (start of the super 8s).

He denied a few weeks ago that we would have to move out of headingley for anything.

More lies.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:24 pm  

Frosties. wrote:

Well in that article GH says 'must start by September 1st'. Meaning we would definitely have to move out at the end of the season as we still have games to play (start of the super 8s).

He denied a few weeks ago that we would have to move out of headingley for anything.

More lies.

They knocked down the corner segment between the South stand and Western terrace last year before the season ended.

Do you know what the first few weeks would entail to be certain we'd have to move out?

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:36 pm  

Why I wonder did the club seem so confident that there would be a sale of those two sites would get the go ahead ?

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:28 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Absolutely - at the last set of financials Leeds only had c£2m in cash so that suggests some serious borrowing is required!!

Caddick Group have scooped out £4.5m of Leeds' cash though - not as dividends but as inter-company loans. Assuming (and it's a big but fair assumption) that Leeds get their money back from Caddick they have £7m. Which is why the South Stand project - both this version and the previous one that we didn't bother with in the end - has always been mostly funded.

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:18 pm  

Frosties. wrote:

Well in that article GH says 'must start by September 1st'. Meaning we would definitely have to move out at the end of the season as we still have games to play (start of the super 8s).

He denied a few weeks ago that we would have to move out of headingley for anything.

More lies.

Why would we have to move out? The plan is still to do 1 stand at once isn't it? I haven't seen anything from the club to suggest otherwise.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: Stadium Redevelopment : Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:31 pm  

Surely it would be easier to move out for x amount of time to get both stands done at the same time?